2) delicious.com

2) Using delicious.com

when I saved the original articular delicious told me 9 other people had saved it and directed me to articles that I might be interested in.

Direction

From my research I have chosen to look at.

- To improve the Post Harvest Losses experienced when storing
- Maize crop
- East Sub Saharan Africa
- Reduce damage from micro-organism and pests

1) key things to research

1) key things I want to research

- main reason harvests are lost

- countries most affected (the environment in the countries)

-  harvest cycle, when losses occur? what time of year?

- crops that are most effected by post harvest losses and therefore have a greater need/market.

- existing solutions, what works? what doesn't work?

Main areas of loss

I have started by looking at what causes most of the post harvest losses during harvest in Africa.

A report from the world Bank had research into the main causes of food loss.

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTARD/Resources/MissingFoods10_web.pdf

I chose to do the Scotsman Project that aims to reduce Post harvest losses in Africa. this is a very wide issue that effects lots of different countries, environments and has lots of different problems to look at.

I started my repurchaser by googling the article that the brief was originally based on. (http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/aug/22/weather-stations-agricuture-data-africa)

From this I did 2 things.

1) picked out key things I wanted to research
2) saved it to Delicious

Delicious showed me 9 other people had saved this article, It also suggested a number of other articles I may be interested in. After checking out a few of these articles I found a few people on delicious who were following similar topics to me.