This course provides an overview of the issue of postharvest loss of grains by exploring essential physical, technical, and social dimensions of postharvest supply chains and loss prevention methods globally. Each year, estimates suggest that 1/3 of all food produced is lost or wasted, making postharvest loss a critical global food security and sustainability issue of today. Key knowledge areas are presented including: -An overview of postharvest loss -Supply chain activities such as harvesting, drying, and storage -Economics and markets -An introduction to the network of actors working in this field We face the immense challenge of feeding over 9 billion people by the year 2050. To meet these demands, yields will have to more than double using the same amount of natural resources. In recent years, postharvest loss has been recognized by major institutions including the US government, the United Nations, the CGIAR Research Consortium, and several others as a significant opportunity to impact food security and improve livelihoods. Despite this increased attention, a lack of knowledge, technical capacity, and resources remain obstacles for stakeholders worldwide to act on these issues. This course will, for the first time, provide you as professionals, practitioners, and students, with a comprehensive introduction to postharvest loss processes and begin building capacity for loss prevention worldwide.
4.4. The ADM Institute Approach to Postharvest Loss Prevention
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Global Postharvest Loss Prevention: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Actors
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
29 個評分
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Week 4: Actors: A Network of Global Stakeholders
In this module you will explore how the international community is responding to the issue of postharvest loss. The module will cover the current state of the postharvest loss prevention field, as well as provide background as to how it developed. Some key projects, initiatives, and approaches will be highlighted.
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Dr. Prasanta KalitaDirector of the ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
[SOUND] We're going to talk about the postharvest losses and
how ADM Institute for Prevention of Postharvest Loss is associated.
What do we do?
This is what we'll talking about.
And you must have already seen along various different problems
associated with postharvest losses in some of the previous lectures out there.
The causes, what causes these postharvest loss problems.
Some of the approaches that people are doing in different parts of the world.
And other actors and other partners that are working,
other individuals are working to bring out some
interventions to prevent full services losses.
So here we will just give you an example of how an organization like
ADM Institute is playing a big role in introducing postharvest loss out there,
and I have to mention it in some of the reasons, and actions for
postharvest loss preventions anyway.
We need a significant amount of investment because it's a big problem.
Postharvest loss is a huge problem worldwide, different type of crops, and
different type of communities in allowed there, so we need to have that
a significant investment is required to reduce postharvest losses.
We need technological advances.
New technology need to come up.
We all know that there is not enough renewable land or
water or things like that of course energy is renewable.
So we, our inputs are very limited to keep producing more and more crop.
And of course the market liberalization,
we need the careful public actions there to help.
Also to help the private sectors to bring them with us to play,
side by side with us to reduce postharvest losses.
So, these are kind of a reason behind why we need to do this kind of work.
So, the potentials for postharvest loss prevention in
developing countries they are significant.
There are a lot of potentials so there are a lot of needs.
One and a few of the things we have used is here is
the knowledge and awareness of the postharvest losses.
People need to know what it is and
what kind of technologies are available for to prevent this kind of thing.
People need to know the Cost-effectiveness of the machine uses for
postharvest losses.
We need better infrastructure, and
some of the common one would be drying and storage.
How do we have those infrastructure and other logistics like roads and
transportation?
You may have those storage and drying facilities, but if the farmers can't move
the crop, I mean, these things are not going to serve any purpose.
We need to have connect people, we need to connect the farmers with the public,
with the private sectors so they can see the whole pictures just like some
some of us do, and like in anyone of the presentations before we said we need to
invest In research, we need to invest in education as well as in outreach or
extension services so to educate people out there.
So having said that this establishes the ground for
the work and what needs to be done and that's when the idea means to end,
that's when and why ADM institution was established.
So, with all those ideas, in the back of our mind,
ADM Institute was established by the ADM company and, the purpose
was to make it as an international information and technology hub.
So we should have all the information out there.
We should encompass all the technologies, practices and systems out there,
either develop or help develop or disseminate the information to people.
We should also focus on, right now, staple crops because
most developing countries people don't have enough food to have.
This institute was announce from a 10 million dollar gift from
the ADM company in 2011.
And as we'll discuss with some of our new undertaking that we just started
this year in 2014.
So initially,
when this institute was established, we concentrated on four things.
One was transformational research and
development activities to reduce postharvest losses.
We also look at establishing the strategic partnership to develop the global
workforce, our global friendship,
our global network that needed to solve this problem.
Our third priority was to establish a website so
that how we can give our information rapidly and disseminate the information.
And the fourth priority was to develop training courses on best practices and
technology.
So, as you can see in 2012, our institute has spent a significant amount
of funding and in the four areas that we identified, we concentrate our research.
One is a measurement technology and development.
We also looked at how do we look at things from a systems perspective?
We also look at the policies in different places, different government,
different crops and what are the policies?
What are the existing policies?
How do we analyze and we also looked at the education training and
information transfer.
So these are the four areas that we invested from our institute
in giving them some funding.
So we are expanding our roles and we do not have here.
Yesterday, I talked to some colleagues from the government of New Zealand.
They already excited to work with us.
And in solving some of the postharvest loss issues.
So we are developing our frame cycle as you can see here.
So far we exist in more than 3 plus years and
it's the fourth year almost getting over.
We have 20+ projects.
We have 30+ researchers.
We have 60+ collaborators, more than 200 students, and
this number every day is increasing out there.
In the map, you can see which part in the world we have connected with.
And you can see, these various different colors tell you about
our engagement that is happening in a chronologically, from 2011, 12, 13 and 14.
And then as we keep talking,
I think we're going to end one more dot into the world map.
We have a lot of partners that we have already established very good connections
with, with international organizations like Rockefeller Foundation, FAO,
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, USAID, IRRI.
We have other private companies like John Deere,
of course ADM is always there with us, and
many other global entities across all sectors of the society.
In Brazil specifically, we're working with University of Federal Visoca,
and University del Mato Grosso, and
other organizations CONAB and all that out there.
We have excellent projects that we've already started getting some good data.
We're measuring some postharvest losses.
And we are going to make some significant investment in starting as early
as January 2015 to intensify our work in Brazil.
And we are talking to them, though some of the researchers,
some of the administrators from Brazil,
they are on our ADM Institute extended advisory board so they give us,
they provide us which direction we need to work with,
which organizations we need to work with, with them.
In India, as you can see, there are many organizations, many universities,
even the government we are working with Indian Council of Agricultural Research,
India Minister of agriculture in a very recent one that in the end of
big under taking that we are working with the Ministry of Information Science and
Technology.
We're trying to develop some project so that we'll get dollar for
dollar match that we have been working in the eastern part of India.
So they will also work along with us and
bring the information technology component into that.
How can we give information to the farmers as quickly, as efficiently,
as possible out there?
So I know lots of collaboration that is happening and not only that,
our institute is like we said, one of our missions is to be
the international information hub so we try to give rapid information.
We disseminate information as soon as it's possible, we have lots of communication
tool kits, we have websites, newsletters, blogs and social media, everything,
a lot of these things, newsletters we being published twice a month.
We have our communication tool kits, are available, very high quality pictures if
you go to our website, you should be able to get those kind of things.
For example, someone talking about Bangladesh, and in a postharvest losses,
they go to our website, they click on this site,
you can see what they are talking about.
Training another thing that has made a significant difference
that Indian Institute has been involved with.
SAWBO program is a scientific animation without borders that's a great program.
We have already connected with thousands and thousands of farmers by simply
giving them the innovations of various different Postharvest Loss technology.
2015 second week we will be with this animation team in Bangladesh and
we are translating this animation from English to the local languages out
there will do that in Indian languages, we'll do that in Portuguese, we'll do
that in Chinese and that so that the local farmers get the maximum benefit out of it.
Of course, this Coursera course as you know in this lecture is part of that thing
this is to bring global awareness to the people irrespective of what
do you do, if you eat food, if you drink water.
You need to know about postharvest losses.
So, I think everyone can benefit from taking this course and
we call it Postharvest Loss 101.
And this course is very fundamental right now.
We want to create interest and awareness among people.
Hopefully, in very near future we will be developing more advanced level classes.
For example, how do we design cost effective dryer?
How do we design more affordable storage facilities for
farmers in a remote area in India or in Brazil or in China or in Myanmar.
So we'll be developing those kind of thing.
We are also connecting with the world experts.
For example, we have a very good communication open between us and
University of Arkansas, one of the world famous leaders, Dr. Terry Siebenmorgen.
He will help us in some of the, giving the information and
developing some new classes out there.
So, there are no limit to
the things that our institute would do for the rest of the world.
And in terms of training and technology,
we already did a convening with the gates at
the 2014 at Washington, D.C., we invite a lot of people from all over the world.
I mean, I say a lot of people but it was a very selective group of people out there
so we basically brainstormed on what needs to be done.
In one of the things that came up or keep coming up constantly is
nobody knows how to measure the postharvest losses out there.
And so that is one of the main theme that we will probably look at
that from our institute.
When we do community development project in
we'll make sure that we develop some new information.
We develop or
validate this new measurement protocol that we are going to develop.
Our researchers are going to work on it.
So how do we bring our people together?
All the partners, all the people, their hearts and
their minds and their heads are always thinking about postharvest losses.
Our institute is taking a lead role to organize the first international congress
for postharvest loss prevention in 2015, in October fourth through seventh in Rome.
You may ask why Rome?
Because that is the headquarters of FAO.
And we want to give people an opportunity to visit some
of the other works around there, it might be a central place for
people to visit from all different parts of the world.
So, our institution, I think, this ADM is institute for
prevention of postharvest losses already had made a significant impact in the world
with the various different communities in postharvest loss prevention.
We have invested and we have connected with global institutions and
because of us, I think other institutions are also now thinking
in the same way that we have been thinking.
We have other discussions are occurring and many different places and
many different organization on postharvest loss reductions, strategy development.
So we are learning and
we are helping people learn how to do those kind of thing.
We are looking at the whole supply chain.
We are doing good research, trying to bring out new information out there.
And we are also developing technologies, and methodologies, and
we are testing those out there.
So if you ask us what has the impact of this institute has been so far this year?
I would say tremendous.
We have made a difference but we are not stopping where we are right now.
We will continue to make a difference.
We would like to see that because of the ADM Institute for
prevention of postharvest loss.
People, some people in the world or many people in the world for
a better life tomorrow.
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