Metal Silos and Food Security

This book highlights the experience developed by the Regional Post-Harvest Program, in over 20 years of helping strengthen food security in the Central American region and beyond, through replication in Africa, South America (e.g., Paraguay, Peru, and Cuba) and other countries with potential outside the Central American region. We hope this book will provide practical input with the knowledge needed by professionals and others interested in perfecting post-harvest management technically and/or conceptually, since there is not much information in the literature in Spanish. This is enhanced by experiences from post-harvest programs and projects with indigenous and other rural communities in Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras, and from post-harvest replication missions in Cuba, Peru and Mexico, where the author had the opportunity to serve as a Technical Advisor for several years. Along with this noble post-harvest activity, local capacities have been built, technically and among thousands of families who have benefited by adopting post-harvest technology.