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Saving Food Saves Lives
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May 2, 2016

Spilled tomatoes lie alongside a wholesale vegetable market north of New Delhi, India. Trucking produce to market is a race against time and spillage results in lost food and income. ©AP Images
Spilled tomatoes lie alongside a wholesale vegetable market north of New Delhi, India. Trucking produce to market is a race against time and spillage results in lost food and income. ©AP Images

To feed the world we need to reduce the amount of food lost in transit from farms to markets. It is important to develop technologies and techniques to reduce food loss that are appropriate to local communities’ needs. These needs widely vary based on crop, soil condition, water availability and climate.

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