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The Ecosystem Services Market Research Consortium is conducting the research necessary to create a functional ecosystem services market, which pays farmers and ranchers for adopting conservation practices.
The IIC accelerates the development and adoption of novel water and energy-efficient irrigation technologies and practices through public-private partnerships.
Crops of the Future, a public-private collaborative, expands our knowledge of the traits that give rise to characteristics crops need to adapt to a changing future.
The International Consortium for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Agriculture (ICASA) advances research on antimicrobial stewardship in animal agriculture. This public-private partnership promotes the judicious use of antibiotics and improves animal welfare.
Precision Indoor Plants (PIP), a public-private partnership, helps food producers grow flavorful, nutritious food indoors. The consortium’s audacious research increases our ability to produce quality crops that are valuable and desired by consumers.
The Consortium for Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss & Food Waste Reduction is a team of global experts that aim to preserve nutrients, improve livelihoods and realize an efficient food system.
The Greener Cattle Initiative is an industry-oriented research consortium that will award approximately $5 million over the next five years to support research to mitigate enteric methane emissions from cattle. This audacious consortium provides global nutrition while also curbing the escalating climate crisis.
The Hemp Research Consortium fosters a deeper understanding of the relationship between genes, physiology and the environment to optimize industrial hemp production.
The Efficient Fertilizer Consortium is a public-private partnership that funds research to advance enhanced efficiency and novel fertilizer products and practices that are environmentally beneficial and agronomically productive.
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Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss & Food Waste Reduction Consortium

The Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss & Food Waste Reduction Consortium is a collaborative research effort to prevent food and nutrient loss and waste and promote global food security.

Generating Health-Agriculture Nexus Solutions

Program Contact

Grants Team
grants@foundationfar.org

Development Contact

Catherine Maxwell
cmaxwell@foundationfar.org

The Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss & Food Waste Reduction Consortium promotes audacious research that provides the tools and strategies to preserve nutrients, advance food security and build efficient food systems.

Research projects focus on:

Advancing a common, collaborative research agenda focused on deploying member expertise across the global food system
Enhancing the capacity of the next generation to deliver nutritious foods and ensure food security
Developing practical approaches to measure value chain loss and waste
Increasing efficiencies in the global food system to sustainably preserve nutrients
Achieving sustained, scalable implementation of methods to preserve, process, package and transport nutritious foods

Why the Consortium is Needed

Food loss and waste is a global problem that negatively impacts the bottom line of businesses and farmers, wastes limited resources, contributes to food insecurity and damages the environment.

We launched this consortium in 2019 with a $2.78 million contribution, which is matched by consortium participants for a $5.56 million investment in pioneering food loss and waste research.

The consortium includes strategic public-private partnerships that bring together global thought leaders and experts with industry and other organizations. Together, participants address social, economic and environmental impacts from food loss and waste. The consortium works collaboratively to increase adoption of the YieldWise Initiative model, a project to reduce food loss in developing nations and food waste in developed markets.

The consortium also provides farmers across the globe with technology and strategies to use resources efficiently, allowing farmers to gain more value from their crops. These technologies and strategies stimulate local economic growth and improve access to affordable, healthy food.

In addition to developing strategies to reduce food waste and loss, the consortium builds the academic and entrepreneurial capacity of the next generation of scientists. The consortium pairs researchers and students with private and public sectors professionals for mentorship and training.

For more information, visit the Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss & Food Waste Reduction Consortium website.

Consortium Partners

The Consortium convenes diverse thought leaders from public, private and academic spheres who are changing the way we are preventing food loss and waste and ensuring food security.

The participants are Iowa State University, USA; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; The Rockefeller Foundation, USA; Stellenbosch University, South Africa; University of Maryland, USA; University of Nairobi, Kenya; University of São Paulo, Brazil; the Volcani Center, Israel; Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands; and Zamorano University, Honduras.