{"id":645,"date":"2019-02-08T02:32:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T02:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-kaleafrica.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2019-02-08T05:25:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T05:25:38","slug":"reshaping-africas-rural-food-systems-and-cutting-food-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-kaleafrica.com\/fr\/reshaping-africas-rural-food-systems-and-cutting-food-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Reshaping Africa\u2019s Rural Food Systems and Cutting Food Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"645\" class=\"elementor elementor-645 elementor-bc-flex-widget\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c91b8e0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c91b8e0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8734c5e\" data-id=\"8734c5e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-fbed216 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fbed216\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-c8f4529\" data-id=\"c8f4529\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-376ff82 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"376ff82\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span id=\"ember1240\" class=\"ember-view\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; background: 0px 0px;\">\u201cFor too long, food losses have been a blind spot in the development agenda,\u201d says Toby Peters, an expert on food cooling technologies and Professor in the Cold Economy at the UK-based Birmingham Energy Institute. But slowly, momentum is shifting. Advances in affordable off-grid cold storage technologies, combined with new initiatives to help rural farmers pool their resources, are creating ripe opportunities to reshape Africa\u2019s rural food systems and cut food losses.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span id=\"ember1240\" class=\"ember-view\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> <a id=\"ember1243\" class=\"hashtag-link ember-view\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; 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font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\" href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/ecDphJM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/ecDphJM<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-e87ca2b\" data-id=\"e87ca2b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b7758a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8b7758a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-kaleafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feature_AfricaFoodLoss_Main-920x458.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-647\" alt=\"Africa Food Loss\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-kaleafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feature_AfricaFoodLoss_Main-920x458.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.w-kaleafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feature_AfricaFoodLoss_Main-920x458-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-kaleafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Feature_AfricaFoodLoss_Main-920x458-768x382.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ffeca57 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ffeca57\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span id=\"ember1240\" class=\"ember-view\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; background: 0px 0px;\">With US$300,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, the farmers have built a cluster of cold storage buildings that allow mangoes, bananas, tomatoes and other local crops to stay fresh.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor too long, food losses have been a blind spot in the development agenda,\u201d says Toby Peters, an expert on food cooling technologies and Professor in the Cold Economy at the UK-based Birmingham Energy Institute. But slowly, momentum is shifting. 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