**4. Outlook with Regard to Continued Research in Post-Harvest Preservation and Protection**

Despite continued progress, several challenges pertaining to reducing post-harvest loss and food waste reduction remain unresolved and need further basic and applied research including:


**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, writing—original draft preparation, writing—review and editing, were contributed equally by the authors. Funding acquisition, D.E.M. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** Funding to support publication of research results by members of the Consortium for Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss and Food Waste Reduction was provided by The Rockefeller Foundation (2018 FOD 004), the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (DFs-18-0000000008), and the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** Not applicable.

**Acknowledgments:** The authors would like to thank the funders and collaborators of the Consortium and all manuscript contributors and peer reviewers of this special issue of Agriculture.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
