Welcome to Food Loss Mitigation Innovation Hub (FLMIH)
About Us
This Project Innovation Hub (PIH) is maintained by the ACIAR Project Partners in partnership with the industry, which will serve as a resource space for creating change, receiving ongoing feedback and monitoring and evaluation. It will be a source of advocacy and innovation that will showcase knowledge-to-practice links and results of practice change. Initially, relevant project documents, including working papers, workshop presentations etc. will be made available publicly through the PIH. As the project progresses the project team will deliver policy briefs, workshops, and engagement activities to create awareness, build relationships, and establish the case for reform.
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Project Aim
This project aims to identify the extent and root causes of food losses in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and design and demonstrate affordable technological and organisational options to mitigate these losses, and create new economic opportunities across the value chain.
Objectives
The main objective of the project is to make practice change attractive across primary production to processing and retail stages by demonstrating opportunities to reduce costs, increase market value and improve business competitiveness. It will create lasting food security and sustainability impacts in smallholder farming communities.
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Expected Outcomes
The project’s main accomplishment will be its hands-on approach to improved business practice and recommendations leading to continued adoption of improved business strategies and commercial arrangements to achieve the desired development objective — food loss abatement.
The adoption pathway will involve immediate and simple practice changes inspired through facilitated learning, changes in business strategies towards value creation to eventual reform in public institutions (policy and regulatory practices) and improved, industry-driven, market mechanisms resulting in a number of innovations including
- Post-harvest loss reduction through improved service delivery technologies using e-commerce and knowledge share applications to better match producers’ supply with consumers’ demand.
- Supply scheduling, contracting and quality-focused handling.
- Transition pathways to high efficiency commercial farming from existing semi-subsistence systems
It is envisaged that the project will lead to tangible business practice changes, visible modifications in business strategy towards value creation, and a foundation to progress necessary policy and behavioural changes resulting in a positive impact on food loss mitigation.
