A measurable quantitative and qualitative loss in a given product that occur between harvest and the moment of human consumption. They include on-farm losses, such as when grain is threshed, winnowed, and dried, as well as losses along the chain during transportation, storage, and processing.
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Beyond Binaries of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge Bean Storage Techniques: A Case of Market Women in Ghana
Anne Namatsi Lutomia (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA), Julia Bello-Bravo (Michigan State University, USA), Teresia Muthoni Njoroge (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA), and Barry R. Pittendrigh (Michigan State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6061-6.ch004
Abstract
Using a case study, this chapter illustrates how indigenous knowledge—and particularly female knowledge systems—can intersect with technology to disclose the limits of the conventional binary discourse of knowledge as either scientific or indigenous. Data here are drawn from research on legume market women in Ghana, who watched linguistically localized animated educational videos on cellphones while conducting business at their stalls. Using a framework of adult learning theory informed by feminist pedagogy, this chapter provides a multidisciplinary discussion around post-harvest loss prevention practices, specifically, but also how indigenous and scientific knowledge can interact to achieve learning.