FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Food loss reduction

Food loss reduction should be seen as a means towards achieving other objectives, including improving food security and nutrition, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, lowering pressure on water and land resources and can increase productivity and economic growth. The tools and techniques which are very popular the field is illustrated and clustered in this page for easy and complete information for your action and its application.


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Food loss Index

The Food Loss Index (FLI) focuses on food losses that occur from production up to (and not including) the retail level. It measures the changes in percentage losses for a basket of 10 main commodities by country in comparison with a base period. The FLI will contribute to measure progress towards SDG Target 12.3.

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