A report from the FAO North America Liaison Office in Washington D.C. Written by Genna Tesdall. The ugly food fever has spread to the United States. US ...

From FLW Protocol  The Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Stan­dard (or FLW Standard) is a global standard that provides requirements and guidance for quantifying and ...

On 1 March 2016 the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) Commission of Natural Resources (NAT) hosted a policy debate on food waste. The Opinion working ...

Every year, about 1/3 of the food produced for human consumption gets lost, counting for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Developing countries post-harvest loss ...

Opportunities for public-private-civil society collaboration Expert Panel Discussion15 January 2016CityCube Berlin Annually, about one third of the food produced world-wide for human consumption, approximately 1.3 billion tons, is ...

On the occasion of the Forty-second Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) the governments of Brazil and Italy have co-organized with the Food ...

Prior to the turn of the 20th century, the disposal of food waste ranked relatively low on the international agenda and in global discussions on agricultural ...

Rome, Italy - FAO Headquarters The seminar focused on discussing policies and sharing experiences on FLW reduction and management within the broader context of food ...

FAO won the poster competition with its ‘Vicious circle of fish losses, vulnerability of natural resources and the poverty trap in small-scale fisheries’ The World Seafood Congress ...