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Country of Origin: Zambia NLS Award: 2004-2005 Graduate Program: MSc Food Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Goal: Train agricultural workers in post-harvest management and food management, marketing, and analytical methods in warehouses and food laboratories to enable them to compete with large-scale producers. Current Projects: Yande Kapinda recently graduated cum laude with her MSc in Food Technology, following the option of Post-harvest and Food Preservation Engineering. Currently, she is enrolled in a year of complementary courses in tropical agriculture. Prior to this, she had been working with small-scale farmers and grain handlers, training them in grain quality assessment and good warehouse management practices. The staple food of Zambia is maize and approximately eighty percent of the nation's total maize production is grown by small-scale farmers. Unfortunately, their lack of knowledge in basic grain-grading and good post-harvest management has seen them trading on the market at a great loss. With the knowledge she is gaining from this study program, Kapinda hopes to help alleviate poverty in the lives of the farmers she works with.
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