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Food Loss-Reducing Intervention Strategies for Potato Smallholders in Kenya—A Positive Business Case with Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Title Food Loss-Reducing Intervention Strategies for Potato Smallholders in Kenya—A Positive Business Case with Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions
 
Creator Soethoudt, Han
Castelein, Bob
 
Subject climate change
agriculture
food security
smallholders
food losses
food wastes
greenhouse gas emissions
greenhouse gases
potatoes
 
Description This paper is focused on intervention scenarios for smallholder potato value chains in Kenya that improve yields, reduce losses, minimize greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase economic performance and food security. For that, business models and GHG emission estimates are developed, based on the existing data, combined with relevancy and time-to-impact analysis using practical real-life information from stakeholders in the potato sector, which is the second largest agricultural crop in Kenya after maize. The results show that profitability, environmental improvement and food security can go hand in hand with realistic short-term interventions for potato production at smallholder farms.
 
Date 2021-09-16
2021-11-05T13:56:13Z
2021-11-05T13:56:13Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Seouthoudt H, Castelein B. 2021. Food Loss-Reducing Intervention Strategies for Potato Smallholders in Kenya—A Positive Business Case with Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Agronomy 11(9):1857.
2073-4395
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115852
https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11091857
PII-FP3_FoodLoss
PII-FP3_LEDPriorities
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1857
 
Publisher MDPI
 
Source Agronomy