“Food losses and waste is a global issue, it calls for Global Action. This is why FAO very much welcomes this Conference. Global Action means of course action of international actors but also, and especially, mobilisation of all actors, along food chains, from production to consumption. It also means that action has to be tailored to regional and local specificities and priorities.”
Read more...The 3GF-LAC Regional conference convened more than 180 leaders and decision-makers from businesses, finance, governments, cities, international organizations and civil society engaged in discussions on how to further advance inclusive, green growth in the Latin American and Caribbean region. At the partnership market place the
SAVE FOOD initiative and other international and regional partnerships shared innovative partnership ideas and invited new partners to join.
Read more...Autogrill, the multinational company known for its motorway and airport restaurants in 30 countries, is partnering with FAO to cut down food waste and losses and support the introduction of products of small-scale farmers in developing countries.
Read more...Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to take place in Quito, Ecuador, from 17 – 20 October 2016. The Conference will focus on implementing the “New Urban Agenda”, building on the Habitat Agenda of Istanbul in 1996.
Read more...From 2 to 5 June 2015 South Africa hosted a multi-stakeholder consultation workshop to gather information for a “National Food Waste Prevention and Reduction Programme”, that will include pilot actions in Johannesburg and Tshwane.
Read more...The launching workshop of the UN Rome-based agencies (RBA) joint project’ “Mainstreaming food loss reduction initiatives for smallholders in food deficit areas” technical activities was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on 19 May 2015.
Read more...An exhibition has been organized under the theme “Less undernourishment: Save Food” with the aimed to raise awareness of food security, and to educate the local people about food insecurity on both the supply side and demand side, especially, food waste and food losses.
Read more...This discussion will be online from July to September 2015. The information collected through the discussion will help to finalize a set of interactive maps that will be made available in the website for Community of Practice members’ consultation and use. The maps will represent all updated Post-Harvest Management related information on country basis, starting from the three pilot countries of the RBA’s joint project.
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- Information about the FLW Reduction component of the Action Plan for Food and Nutrition Security and the Eradication of Hunger in The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States 2025;
- Experiences in FLW Reduction in 5 countries;
- Information about the process towards a Regional Alliance for Food Loss and Waste Reduction;
- Status of FLW in basic food products in 8 countries;
- A case study on post-harvest loss management and storage needed along the cassava value chain in the Caribbean.Read more...
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remarks heard by representatives of over 120 countries, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and the current Chairperson of the Conference, Le Mamea Ropati Mualia, the Pontiff stressed the importance of reducing food waste, providing nutrition education, and creating a sense of global solidary to ensure food security for all people.
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A major activity of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department is on food loss and waste reduction in the whole fish supply chain, from harvesting to distribution. The Expert Workshop on Estimating Food Loss from Gillnet and Trammel Net Fishing held on 8-10 April 2015 in Cochin fits within its three-fold goal programme.
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blog.zerohungerchallenge.org
Three years after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched his Zero Hunger Challenge, governments, groups and people around the world have built a global movement to end hunger – end it in our lifetimes, and end it once and for all.
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Reuters
The world's top food and drink companies have promised to halve the food they waste by 2025, seeking to preempt government regulation prompted by concern about the environmental, economic and social costs of such inefficiency.
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FareShare
UK food recovery and redistribution charity FareShare launches the Food Efficiency Framework, a guide for food businesses to increase resource efficiency, reduce food waste and take proactive steps to support people experiencing food poverty.
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The Nation
The Asia and Pacific countries met with development partners, civil society organizations, research and academic institutes, United Nations agencies and influential organizations such as World Bank, Asian Development Bank and the EU. They shared experiences and discussed a way forward to accelerate concrete and practical actions in reducing food loss and waste in the region.
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Partners' actions
Last May 27, a collection of children's books with the theme of fighting against food waste was launched by the Lisbon City Council in partnership with DariAcordar association and the EDP Foundation, under the Healthy Eating project.
A new study from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and the Getulio Vargas Foundation, shows that the top causes of food waste in homes include buying too much, preparing in abundance, unwillingness to consume leftovers, and improper food storage.
We are pleased to announce the "First West African Food for All Conference, Awards, World Record & Exhibition 2015", 7 – 10 October 2015, Accra International Conference Center, Ghana.
OzHarvest and the United Nations call on Australia’s leaders to set a target to reduce food waste by 50 percent by 2025.
Significant findings from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, suggests that 31 to 40 percent of the American food supply goes to waste, primarily in homes, stores and restaurants.
Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark (Stop Spild Af Mad) and The Round Table (Det Runde Bord) collected significant quantities of surplus food from the Roskilde Festival and donated this surplus to charities.
The Alliance Sustainability Food and Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research has started a project to reduce food waste in the agrifood chain.
In recognition of the importance of reducing post-harvest losses of food worldwide, the need to expand graduate post-harvest programs, and to create new textbooks on the post-harvest preservation of food that is lost, the CRC Press (Taylor & Francis) signed a cooperative agreement with World Food Preservation Center LLC.
Recognizing the growing challenge of feeding city dwellers, who will become the world's majority by 2050, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Union of Wholesale Markets on Thursday signed a partnership agreement aimed at reaching the urban poor and reducing food waste estimated at 1.3 billion tonnes every year.
Autogrill partners with FAO to reduce food waste, support small-scale producers
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