Abstract During the last decade, post-harvest losses (PHL) reduction has been topping agenda of governments as a pathway for addressing food security, poverty, and nutrition challenges in Africa. Using survey data from 579 households, we investigated factors that affect farmers’ decisions to adopt technologies: mechanized shelling, drying tarpaulins, airtight storage validated reducing PHL Tanz...

On September 2000, the Al Aqsa Itifada erupted. Palestinian children and families have been exposed to a variety of traumatic events, ranging from hearing of killing, to bombardment by helicopters at the entire Gaza Strip. The current conflict differs from the previous Intifada, in which events such as night and day raids were common occurrence in previous Intifada (1987-1993). Shelling and bom...