Women trained in using new storage technologies show off metal grain storage silos in Mnenia, Tanzania.

Pest-proof bags and bins slim Tanzania’s ‘lean season’

Cheap solutions to food losses are having a big impact on hunger, researchers say

Thomson Reuters Foundation – Improved storage techniques have shown they can cut the loss of harvested corn by 10 per cent in Tanzania, and that could mean that one-third fewer households will go hungry in the lean season, Swiss researchers said. Why it matters: Efforts to protect harvested grain could play a key role in […] Read more