Integrating gender and intersectionality in post-harvest loss research helps reduce negative economic and social impacts
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Chavarro, M.J. and Moreno, M.F. 2025. Integrating gender and intersectionality in post-harvest loss research helps reduce negative economic and social impacts. Evidence Explainer. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI. https://gender.cgiar.org/news/integrating-gender-and-intersectionality-post-harvest-loss-research-helps-reduce-negative
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- Currently post-harvest losses in food systems average about 25 percent globally, reducing food availability and increasing food insecurity.
- Women’s participation in post-harvest processing is almost 50 percent, but their role is undervalued.
- Appropriate technologies can reduce losses. But if they are developed and introduced in a manner that is not gender-responsive, the technologies can widen gender gaps and other social inequalities.
- There is an urgent need to collect sex-disaggregated data on post-harvest losses to inform how we develop appropriate technology and other enabling innovations.
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Manuel Francisco Moreno Bustamante https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0175-3595
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