Strengthening climate resilience, adaptation and mitigation through food loss and waste reduction

Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Hybrid Event, 03/12/2023

This COP-28 side-event will discuss how FLW reduction can contribute to GHG emissions reduction and scaled-up climate adaptation efforts, the priority interventions by different stakeholders, and concrete recommendations to achieve FLW reduction and climate benefits within a sustainable agrifood systems context.

Masterclass 2023 | Food loss and waste: the basics.

Virtual Event, 29/11/2023

This interactive webinar will be the first of a series of webinars on the subject of food loss and waste (FLW). It will introduce and discuss the basics of food loss and waste.

World Food Day 2023 - Water is Life. Water is Food

Rome (Italy), Hybrid Event, 16/10/2023

This year World Food Day theme is “Water is life, water is food. Leave no one behind”. It spotlights how water is essential to life on Earth and the foundation of our food.

As rapid population growth, urbanization, economic development, and climate change put the planet’s water resources under increasing stress, the campaign will look at solutions and call for action to produce more fo...

"Keep It Fresh!" NYSP2I Student Packaging Research Symposium

Binghamton (United States), 29/09/2023

“‘Keep It Fresh!’ challenges students to reduce spoilage by rethinking how food is packaged”

This summer, students from [UNI NAME] and three other universities across the Empire State will lead research to answer this question as part of a new program launched by the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I). The results of their work will be presented at a research sympos...

International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste | Webcast and Agenda

Rome (Italy), Hybrid Event, 29/09/2023

Take action to reduce food loss and waste toward transforming agrifood systems!

The International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste will make a clear call to action for public and private entities to take action to reduce food loss and waste toward transforming agrifood systems to contribute to the achievement of the 2030 agenda. Get involved!

ADMI - Institute for the prevention of postharvest loss | IDAFLW Newsletter

Virtual Event, 29/09/2023

Please join us in calling to action both the public (national or local authorities) and the private sector (businesses and individuals) to prioritize actions and move ahead with innovation to reduce food loss and waste towards restoring and building back better and resilient-ready, food systems. 

IDAFLW event at the University of Nairobi

Nairobi (Kenya), Hybrid Event, 29/09/2023

A campaign for IDAFLW launched at University of Nairobi. TV/Radio talk shows were organzied to promote the IDAFLW. It is physical at University of Nairobi featuring various activities including presentations, panel discussions, plays/song/poem and a cooking demonstration - reuse of food. The panel discussion is livestreamed. 

FEBA Annual Convention

Madrid (Spain), Hybrid Event, 27/09/2023 - 29/09/2023

The European Food Banks Federation is bringing the right top thinkers together in Madrid for the FEBA Annual Convention 2023, which is organised in collaboration with Federación Española de Bancos de Alimentos (FESBAL) on 27-29 September 2023.

Presenting the Guidelines for action on food loss and waste reduction in the Near East and North Africa

Virtual Event, 20/09/2023

Food loss and waste (FLW) reduction is an important entry point to more sustainable, resilient and equitable agrifood systems in the Near East and North Africa (NENA). Interventions to reduce FLW support adaptation to and mitigation of climate change, lower the pressure on scarce water and arable land resources, preserve and deliver nutritious food ...

4th All Africa Postharvest Congress and Exhibition

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 19/09/2023 - 22/09/2023

Hosted by the African Union Commission (AUC) at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the congress is being organized by the AUC in collaboration with various partners, including development partners, private sector actors, academic/research institutions, and civil society.