The proposed International Technical Consultation which will be funded by FAO in conjunction with funds solicited from donor organizations, the private sector and post-harvest organizations, is scheduled to take place over a five-day period at FAO Headquarters in Rome, during the month of April 2002. A maximum of four hundred invited participants, including post-harvest scientists, policy makers, educators, the private sector, donor and development agencies, NGOs, and governments are expected to attend.
In preparation for this Consultation, five Regional Workshops on Post-harvest will be conducted in collaboration with the Global Forum for Agricultural Research (GFAR). The outcome of each Regional Workshop will be synthesized and presented as a Regional Paper at the Technical Sessions of the Global Post-harvest Consultation. Workshop reports will be compiled and posted on the ConsultationWeb site.