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Addressing food loss and waste, requires looking at the whole food system. There are many different actors in the value chain that each play their roll in food loss and waste, which makes the reduction of food loss and waste a shared responsibility.
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|Women in many poor countries grow and process perishable crops and play therefore a key role in reducing food losses at the production, post-harvest and processing stages. Women face however many barriers, such as the lack of knowledge, access to tools or exclusion from producer organizations. More information can be found on [http://m.scidev.net/global/gender/analysis-blog/focus-on-gender-women-can-help-lower-food-losses.html SciDevNet] and a practical toolkit on how to integrate a gender perspective in agricultural value chains, can be found here: [httphttps://genderinvaluechains.ningagriprofocus.com/page/toolkit intro AgriProFocus].
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* SciDevNet, 2013 [http://m.scidev.net/global/gender/analysis-blog/focus-on-gender-women-can-help-lower-food-losses.html Focus on Gender: Women can help lower food losses], Blog: H. Miers, 2013
* Movie: FAO: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uf5SJcFlco Fishing women used improve post-harvest fishery technologies to reduce losses, increase income and household food security]
* CFS, HLPE repor 8, 2014. [http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3901e.pdf Food losses and waste in the context of sustainable food systems].
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