FOOD, TECHNOLOGY AND EMPLOYMENT: THE FARM‐LEVEL POST‐HARVEST SYSTEM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
质疑了发展中国家以减少产后粮食损失为目标的政策，指出传统做法中损失水平被高估，技术选择主要受成本影响，而就业和收入分配才是评估新技术的关键社会因素。
The prevention of food loss in the farm‐level post‐harvest system has become an objective of food policy in many developing countries. This objective is founded on the allegations that food losses are high, that technology is available to prevent or reduce these losses and that, as a consequence, hungry people will be less hungry. This paper first reviews the development of this policy objective. It then goes on to argue that this formulation of post‐harvest policy is inaccurate and frequently misleading. Evidence on the levels of food loss under traditional practices, and on the costs and benefits of technical change, show that at farm level cost reduction is the chief influence on technological choice; from a social perspective, employment and hence income distribution considerations are often the decisive factor in evaluating new techniques.