Postharvest Handling

Wojciech J. Florkowski has over 18 years of experience in research, project management, and training. His areas of specialization and expertise include agricultural economics and international business with emphasis on marketing and consumer studies, technology transfer and assessment, environmental policy analysis, and research policy. He is the author of over 200 publications on a variety of economic, marketing, consumer and policy issues, including the problems of agricultural productivity, policy, consumer willingness-to-pay and price behavior. He co-edited “Postharvest Handling: A Systems Approach” (3rd edition) Nigel Banks worked as a Professor of Postharvest Technology at Massey University and at ZESPRI as General Manager for Innovation, where he learned branding, growers, consumers, ways to connect them and the added value of an outstanding team. Through Postharvest.Co, Nigel is exploring new ways to connect postharvesters, art, online tools and learning with an eye to the increasingly pressing needs of our future world. Robert L Shewfelt is Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia. He advises more than 50 students and has taught 11 different courses in the past two years ranging from Freshman Seminars in Chocolate Science and Coffee Technology to graduate-level courses in Food Research & the Scientific Method. Dr. Shewfelt was also the 2006 recipient of the Cruess Award for Excellence in Teaching of IFT. He co-edited “Postharvest Handling: A Systems Approach” (3rd edition)

• 1. Postharvest systems - New Contexts, New Imperatives2. Challenges in Handling Fresh Fruits and Vegetables3. Consumer Eating Habits and Perceptions of Fresh Produce Quality4. Testing and Measuring Consumer Acceptance5. Nutritional Quality of Fruits and Vegetables6. Value Chain Management and Postharvest Handling7. Consumer Expenditure on Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Purchase8. Postharvest Regulation and Quality Standards on Fresh Produce9. Fresh-cut Product Quality: Implications for a Systems Approach10. Postharvest Handling and Quality Maintenance of Tropical Fruits11. Microbial Quality and Safety of Fresh Produce12. Sorting for Defects13. Non-destructive Evaluation: Detection of External and Internal Attributes Frequently Associated with Quality and Damage14. Measuring Quality and Maturity15. Modeling Quality Attributes and Quality Related Product Properties16. The Supply Value Chain of Fresh Produce from Field to Home: Refrigeration and Other Supporting Technologies17. Traceability in Postharvest Systems18. Fruits and Vegetables in International Trade: Forensic Aspects of Cargo Claims19. Innovative and Integrated Approaches to Investigate Postharvest Stress Physiology and the Biological Basis of Fruit Quality During Storage20. Challenges in Postharvest Handling