In a meeting at FAO Headquarters, 13 agencies consisting of UN and international partner organizations agreed on a way forward to reduce food losses and waste. It ...

The World Food Programme (WFP) has initiated a project to help smallholder farmers increase their production and food security by reducing post-harvest food loss. The project ...

11 September 2013, Rome - The waste of a staggering 1.3 billion tonnes of food per year is not only causing major economic losses but also ...

Bangkok, Thailand, 27 Aug 2013 - Denouncing the huge amount of food that goes to waste, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the ...

09 May 2013, Rome - SAVE FOOD was launched in 2011 as a joint initiative between FAO and private-sector partner Messe Düsseldorf GmbH to have a ...

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today called on international food communities and all players in the global food system to join together in eradicating ...

Rio de Janeiro - FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva today warmly welcomed the “Zero Hunger Challenge” announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.“Big problems ...

13 June 2012, Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and key partners are calling on companies and organizations worldwide to ...

FAO's 31st Regional Conference for the Near East today called for a 50 percent reduction of food losses and food waste in the region in ...

Measures to improve regional food security by cutting food losses and waste and by mitigating and adapting to climate change will be considered by FAO's Regional ...