Integrating Gender and Intersectionality in Post-Harvest Loss Research Helps Reduce Negative Economic and Social Impacts
Publisher: CGIAR Gender Platform
Author(s): Mónica Juliana Chavarro and Manuel Moreno
Date: 2025
Topics: Gender, Land
- Currently post-harvest losses in food systems average about 25 percent globally, reducing food availability and increasing food insecurity.
- Women’s participation in post-harvest processing is almost 50 percent, but their role is undervalued.
- Appropriate technologies can reduce losses. But if they are developed and introduced in a manner that is not gender-responsive, the technologies can widen gender gaps and other social inequalities.
- There is an urgent need to collect sex-disaggregated data on post-harvest losses to inform how we develop appropriate technology and other enabling innovations.