AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Gender Equality
KEYWORDS
Food security, post harvest losses, food storage bag
COUNTRY
Afghanistan
DESIGNED BY
ZeroFly® Storage Bag is manufactured by Vestergaard (vestergaard.com), a Swiss-based global company dedicated to improving the health of disadvantaged people with game-changing solutions that fight malaria, HIV/AIDS, diarrheal disease and neglected tropical diseases. The company is the largest producer of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets to prevent malaria under the PermaNet® brand, and its award-winning LifeStraw® water filters have been designed for individual, family and community uses.
WEBSITE
http://www.vestergaard.com/zerofly-storage-bags
ZeroFly Storage Bag
The first insecticide incorporated storage bag to protect post-harvest crops.
ZeroFly® Storage Bag is the first insecticide-incorporated storage bag to prevent damaging pest infestations. It reduces seed or grain loss that can be consumed, stored or sold for optimized prices, while not having the hazards associated with fumigation or the potential for pesticide residues that come from inaccurate insecticide spraying. Insecticide is incorporated into individual fibers of the bags, which provides a powerful killing action against stored product insects before they can infest the grain or seed packed in the bag. An estimated 10 to 30 percent of worldwide annual food production is lost during post-harvest processes. This impacts the farmer with loss of profitability and has a detrimental effect on global food security. Post-harvest losses due to insects are estimated between 2-20% of harvested grain in sub-Saharan Africa. This aggravates hunger and results in the waste of expensive inputs, such as fertilizer, irrigation water, and human labor.