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IFAD blog: Food loss reduction: a solution to global hunger?
26/11/2018
Leonardo Cini, IFAD consultant for the joint RBA project on "Mainstreaming food loss reduction initiatives for smallholder farmers" reported on his mission to Rwanda in July 2018.
A growing number of projects supported by IFAD follow a holistic approach that aims to improve the ov...
Food loss and waste reduction and management - Advanced course
18/12/2018
The Food loss and waste reduction and management advanced course follows a comprehensive approach, highlighting the importance of food loss and waste in current food systems, identifying main actors and critical points along the food supply chain and reviewing quantitative and qualitative appr...
Food Loss and Waste Law - Throughout the Value Chain
31/01/2019
Reducing loss and waste across the food value chain will contribute tremendously to reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture, improving the incomes and livelihoods of chain actors as well as the food security and nutrition of low-income consumers. SDG target 12.3 specifically calls fo...
WFP Zero Food Loss Initiative January 2019 Update
07/02/2019
There are now over 335,000 families in 16 countries who have made the choice to join the WFP Zero Food Loss Initiative. Thanks to the hard work of a growing number of WFP Smallholde...
Climate change and post-harvest loss: APHLIS blog post
04/03/2019
Climate change is expected to have a profound impact on agricultural productivity, post-harvest losses and value chains. Climate change affects agricultural productivity both directly, by introducing changes in agro-ecological conditions (e.g. drought, variable precipitation, extreme weather e...
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Events
14/9
2017
Evaluation of micronutrient losses from postharvest food losses (PHL) in Kenya, Cameroon and India – Implications on micronutrient deficiencies in children under 5
Douala (Cameroon), 14/09/2017
This seminar organized by the FAO Nutrition and Food Systems Division (ESN) will present the project on food losses and waste (FLW) and Nutrition developed by the Nutrition Assessment and Scientific Advice team (ESNA) with support from the Save Food Team.
07/9
2017
RBA collaboration on food loss and waste reduction joint event
Hybrid Event, 07/09/2017
As the leading international organizations in the field of food and agriculture, IFAD, FAO and WFP are working together to reduce Food Loss and Waste (FLW). The joint event will highlight the global areas of work on FLW of the United Nations Rome‑based a
19/9
2017
20/9
2017
High-Level Event at the 72nd Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations: “Championing SDG 12.3 and the Pathway to Zero Hunger”
Hybrid Event, 19/09/2017 - 20/09/2017
An engaging conversation on how to combat food loss and waste through joint awareness raising, better coordinated investments, overcoming shared challenges, and leveraging more opportunities to work together. The event will serve to renew global commitmen
30/9
2017
Job opportunity: Platform Leader for a top Research for Development Institute, IRRI
Hybrid Event, 30/09/2017
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) needs to fill a key position, the Platform Leader for Sustainable Impact. This senior leadership role is a key piece of a recently launched Strategic Plan that redefines areas of research priority in respo
02/10
2017
27/10
2017
Online Course: Global Postharvest Loss Prevention: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Actors
Hybrid Event, 02/10/2017 - 27/10/2017
This course provides an overview of the issue of postharvest loss of grains by exploring essential physical, technical, and social dimensions of postharvest supply chains and loss prevention methods globally. Taught by: Dr. Prasanta Kalita, Director of t
Projects
Publications
How to Prevent Bread Losses in the Baking and Confectionery Industry? Measurement, Causes, Management and Prevention
30/12/2020
Food losses and waste are associated with inefficient use of agricultural land, water and other resources and agricultural raw materials. Reducing the scale of food wastage is one of the most urgent challenges for food system operators, starting from agriculture to food consumption in the households.
Gaps Analysis & Improved Methods for Assessing Post-Harvest Losses.
01/01/2017
In line with the current policy debate on agriculture and rural development, the improvement of methods for estimating post-harvest losses was identified by FAO member countries as a priority research topic to be included in the Research Programme of the Global Strategy to Improve Agriculture and Rural Statistics (GS). The...
FOOD LOSS AND WASTE AND THE LINKAGE TO GLOBAL ECOSYSTEMS
01/01/2017
The impacts of food loss and waste are not only connected to the agricultural or aquatic ecosystems where food is produced. Food commodities are transported and traded across continents and additional inputs are needed for each activity in the supply chain. Food systems consume about 30 percent of global available...
Fish waste management – An assessment of the potential production and utilization of fish silage in Bangladesh, Philippines and Thailand. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Circular No. 1216.
01/01/2021
A significant amount of fish by-products is produced during fish processing. These by-products represent 20–80 percent of the fish and provide a good source of macro- and micronutrients. Yet they often go unutilized, when they can easily be converted into a variety of products including fishmeal and oil, fish hydrolysates,...
Case studies on fish loss assessment of small-scale fisheries in Indonesia
01/01/2017
This document presents the report of fish loss assessment case studies conducted within the framework of FAO’s Save Food programme and coordinated by FAO’s Fish Products, Trade and Marketing Branch (FIAM). Following the national capacity development workshop (National Workshop on Post-Harvest Fish Losses in Indonesia) on post-harvest fisheries loss assessment,...