In countries with a well-developed cold chain, like the United States, food waste mostly takes place at the consumer level, in homes and at restaurants. In Rwanda, as in much of the developing world, the lack of a cold chain means that between a third and a half of everything that I saw being harvested would be lost long before it ever gets that far. Rwanda is also one of the poorest countries in the world: the gross per-capita income is currently $2.28 a day; more than a third of children under five are stunted from malnutrition;
