Postharvest Loss and Waste Management of Horticultural Produce by Mohammad, Zahra H.; Ahmad, Faizan; Ibrahim, Salam A.;

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Postharvest Loss and Waste Management of Horticultural Produce: From Farm to Fork addresses the major challenges and root causes of postharvest losses, while presenting solutions to reduce postharvest losses using innovative technologies. Divided into five parts, the book introduces an overview of postharvest challenges, such as postharvest handling, storage, and transportation of fruits, vegetables, and berries; in addition to the impact of COVID-19 on postharvest losses. The second part deals with postharvest biological issues and control, such as postharvest diseases and microbiology issues of produce. Part three includes novel technologies for reducing postharvest loss and waste in horticulture, like biological control, packaging, MAP films, etc. Part four brings mitigation strategies for postharvest loss and waste in horticulture, and part five explores the environmental, economic, and social impact of postharvest losses across the food supply chain. Edited by a team of experts in the field, this is an excellent resource that brings sustainable solutions to reduce postharvest losses on a global level, attracting a wider audience in the fields of food engineering and technology, as well as professionals, researchers, and academicians working in the fields of postharvest losses and their management.

• Provide the present status of postharvest losses of horticulture crops: problems, root causes, and strategies to reduce them
• Explores the impact of COVID-19 on postharvest losses of horticultural crops “farm to fork”
• Presents the causes and management of postharvest diseases of horticultural crops
• Highlights the sustainable solutions to reduce postharvest losses such as biological control, packaging, MAP films, etc

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Part 1. Overview of postharvest challenges
1. Introduction
2. Postharvest Loss and Waste in Horticulture Crops: Problems, Root Causes, and Management Strategies.
3. Impact Of Covid-19 On Postharvest Losses of Horticultural Crops “Farm to Fork”
4. Postharvest Handling, Storage, and Transportation of Horticultural Produce: Critical Issues and Factors of Losses
5. Postharvest losses and the measures for their prevention for fruits vegetables, and berries.

???Part 2. Postharvest biological issues and control
6. Postharvest Diseases of Horticultural Crops: Causes and Management
7. Biological Control: a novel, sustainable and practical approach for Postharvest Diseases Management of Horticultural Produce.
8. Microbiology issues of produce and postharvest washing as a solution and preventive measures.
9. Biological Contaminations Prevention and Control in Horticultural Crops from Farm-to-Fork (Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Listeria and Fungi)
10. Influence of Water Quality on Post-Harvest Quality of Fruits and Vegetables
11. Food safety: food borne pathogens and chemical pesticide residue on horticulture crops

Part 3. Novel technologies for reducing postharvest loss and waste in horticulture
12. Emerging Technologies for Reducing Postharvest loss and waste of Horticultural Crops
13. Postharvest Storage and Processing Technology of Fruits and Vegetables
14. Improving Harvesting Methods Reduces Postharvest Losses
15. MAP Films for Postharvest Packaging of Horticulture Produce
16. Drying Methods of Grain Crops and Impact on Postharvest Losses

Part 4. Mitigation strategies for postharvest loss and waste in horticulture
17. Pre- or Postharvest Elicitors Treatments to reduce Post-Harvest Diseases in Horticulture Crops
18. Packaging for Reducing Postharvest Losses of Fruits and Vegetables: Advancements and Challenges
19. On-site outreach as a Solution to Reduce Agricultural Postharvest Losses
20. Food Loss and Waste Prevention Strategies from Farm to Fork

Part 5. Environmental, economic and social impact
21. Reducing Postharvest Losses during Storage of Grain Crops to Strengthen Food Security in Developing Countries
22. Environmental and Economic Influences of Postharvest Losses across the Food Supply Chain in the Developing Countries
23. Impact of future climate change on postharvest losses and mitigation.