World Food Preservation Center^® LLC

The world’s food supply is shrinking and we are heading toward a world food shortage crisis.
On one side we have a rapidly exploding world population and on the other side we have a rapidly deteriorating agricultural environment.
Global warming has come on the scene and portends to greatly reduce crop yields.
It has been shown that we cannot meet this global food shortage crises by just producing more food as we did during the “Green Revolution”. Since one-third of the food that we already produce is lost between the time that it is harvested and consumed it makes sense that we need to substantially reduce these postharvest losses if we are to feed the world’s increasing population.
Due to a meager investment of our agricultural resources into food preservation (5%) versus food production (95%) a postharvest “Skill Gap&rdquo“ and “Technology Gap” exists in our higher education systems particularly in developing countries.
The World Food Preservation Center^® LLC is filling these gaps by providing a world-class postharvest education to young student/scientists from developing countries and having them conduct research on much needed new postharvest technologies.

VIII International Postharvest Symposium: Enhancing Supply Chain and Consumer Benefits – Ethical and Technological Issues

C.L. Wilson

postharvest, food loss, food waste, developing countries, higher education

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2018.1194.2