How Post-Harvest Losses Are Quietly Crushing Lesotho’s Food Security Ambitions

Lesotho speaks often about food security, yet far from policy rooms and conference halls, the country is bleeding food after it has already been grown. The loss does not happen during planting or harvesting. It happens in the quiet hours after crops leave the soil. Post-harvest losses have become one of the most underestimated threats to Lesotho’s ambition to one day become a net producer of the food it consumes. Across farming communities, the story repeats itself. Vegetables harvested in…Continue reading with a subscriptionSubscribe for full access to every story.Subscribe - M85/monthAlready a subscriber? Sign in Advertisement ...