SAVE FOOD Newsletter
March 2015
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In 2015, several international conferences and meetings are being planned by different organizations. The SAVE FOOD Initiative welcomes these events, as they keep the topic high on the political and institutional agenda and facilitate the exchange of best practices and lessons. At the end of 2015, a coherent joint report will be prepared, providing a global overview of the deliberations, findings and recommendations of these meetings. Read more...
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NewsThe aim of the meeting is to encourage representatives from industry, academia and research, policy-makers and civil society to participate in the design and implementation of suitable pilot projects. The meeting will be held on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, on the theme of “Private-Sector Support for Food Loss and Waste Reduction Projects”. Read more...
Following consultations with its members on what topics they would most like to discuss, the Community of Practice has launched a new thread on “Collecting and describing existing post-harvest loss (PHL) assessment methodologies”. Your contributions to collecting and describing existing PHL assessment methodologies could make a difference. Read more...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) considers it to be of vital importance that member countries take coordinated action to reduce food losses and waste as part of the strategy for improving food and nutrition security, in line with the commitment made at FAO’s XXXIII Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean. Read more...
A new and easy-to-assemble fish drying technology pioneered by FAO is helping to reduce health hazards, enhance food safety and quality, improve working conditions and cut down food losses in West African fishing villages. Read more...
The SAVE FOOD Initiative was involved in the thematic round table on preparation of the Milan Charter, held on 7 February in Milan, Italy. FAO’s Director-General highlighted the need to reduce food losses and waste, which affect one-third of all the food produced today. Read more...
Ms Patrina Pink has joined the Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction as a Communication and Partnership Consultant. Her main tasks are communicating and reporting on international conferences on food loss and waste reduction and strengthening communications from the SAVE FOOD Initiative. Read more...
Bread can be found on nearly every kitchen table in Turkey, where bakers produce 37 billion loaves annually. This year, however, Turks will be pleased to find significantly less bread where it doesn’t belong: in waste bins. Read more...
Food loss or food waste? Anything but the same, says FAO expertFAO agri-food economist Stjepan Tanic outlines the fundamental differences between food losses and food waste, and why they matter for Europe and Central Asia. Read more...
Organizers of the Second International Conference on Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society, to be held on 14 to 17 September 2015 in Rome, Italy, have opened the call for abstracts, which can be submitted until 31 March 2015. Read more...
The Guardian
This year, the Millennium Development Goals – launched in 2000 to make global progress on poverty, education, health, hunger and the environment – expire and will be replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Explore what the SDGs aim to achieve in reducing food losses. Read more...
GhanaWeb
GhanaWeb reports that smallholder farmers in selected communities of Talensi District have been trained on how to reduce post-harvest losses using Purdue Improved Crop Storage (PICS) bags. Read more...
BusinessWeek
East African Business Week reports on the Government of Rwanda’s provisions for increasing post-harvest storage capacity, mainly through the private sector. The aim is to reduce the huge post-harvest losses that the country’s farmers can face. Read more...
The New York Times
With millions of households across the United States of America struggling to get enough to eat, while millions of tonnes of food are tossed out as garbage, food waste is increasingly being seen as a serious environmental and economic issue according to a report cited in The New York Times. Read more...
Norden
Norden reports on a new study from the Nordic Council of Ministers showing that more than 3 million meals are served from food banks every year, using food that would have otherwise been wasted. Read more...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
With one-third of global food production being discarded, research reported by Thomas Reuters International calculates that reducing consumer food waste could save the global economy up to US$300 billion a year. Read more...
Partners' actionsThe SAVE FOOD Initiative will participate in the Food Bank Leadership Institute event from 16 to 19 March in Houston, Texas, United States of America. Together with staff of the Global FoodBanking Network, representatives of the food and grocery industry, and experts on global food security, participants will focus on their shared commitment to reducing hunger and food waste in their local communities through food banking.
SWEEP-NetThe Regional Solid Waste Exchange of Information and Expertise Network in Mashreq and Maghreb countries (SWEEP-Net) is pleased to announce that registration for its 5th Regional Forum, to be held in Tunis, Tunisia on April 14 to 16, is now open on the SWEEP-Net Web site.
Stop Wasting Food movement DenmarkAt the Copenhagen Food Fair in February, Denmark’s Stop Wasting Food movement (Stop Spild Af Mad) and partners launched an initiative for redistributing surplus food at shelters for homeless and other vulnerable people.
GrainProGrainPro is working on an innovative programme in Nigeria to help smallholder maize farmers obtain better prices for their commodities.
Wageningen University and Research Centre Food & Biobased ResearchResearch commissioned by GreenPort Noord-Holland Noord and carried out by Wageningen University and Research Centre concludes that optimizing storage for pears would increase the fruit’s quality and lower energy consumption.
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Publication Video Key facts on food loss and waste you should know! Next eventsConference on Food Losses and Waste Initiative: From Prevention to Valorisation9–11 March
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Food Bank Leadership Institute16–19 March
Houston, Texas Disco Soup London20 March
London, England DNC Dresden Nexus Conference 201525–27 March
Dresden, Germany SAVE FOOD Annual General Meeting12 May
Vevey, Switzerland Partnerships
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2015 conferences on food loss and waste reduction
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