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UNGA 74 - Agriculture development, food security and nutrition SG Report
30/08/2019
This report highlights the critical role of a sustainable food systems approach in eradicating poverty, hunger and all forms of malnutrition, promoting sustainable production and consumption, meeting the challenges of urbanization, absorbing the youth labour force and reducing the impact of fo...
Global launch of SOFA 2019 "Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction"
10/10/2019
The State of Food and Agriculture 2019 (SOFA) launched at a press conference with the Director-General and Maximo Torero (ADG-ES), on Monday, 14 October at 12:00 in the Sheikh Zayed Centre is about Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction. It provides in...
FAO and INCATEMA partnership to support small island nations in the Caribbean
13/12/2019
The new partnership will strengthen small island nations' efforts to grow more food, avoid food loss and waste, use already scarce natural resources more sustainably, and be better equipped to withstand the impacts of climate change to which they are particularly prone.
Through this new...
Second International Conference of the Ethiopian Society of Post-harvest Management (ESPHM)
13/12/2019
In occasion of the National Postharvest Week, about 120 participants attended the two-day Second International Conference of the Ethiopian Society of Postharvest Management (ESPHM) held from 6 to 7 December 2019.
The Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopian Society of Post-Harvest M...
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ACTION IN FOOD WASTE PREVENTION
17/12/2019
At its 7th meeting on 12 December 2019,the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste
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09/4
2018
12/4
2018
Sorghum in the 21st Century- “Food, Feed and Fuel in a Rapidly Changing World”
Hybrid Event, 09/04/2018 - 12/04/2018
Cape Town, South Africa (9-14 April 2018) The role of sorghum in the future global agricultural economy will remain strong as new opportunities for utilization compound upon existing utilization patterns and as heat and moisture stress affect the compara
01/10
2018
05/10
2018
The Africa Nutritional Epidemiology Conferences (ANEC)
Hybrid Event, 01/10/2018 - 05/10/2018
Addis Ababa - Ethipia / The Africa Nutritional Epidemiology Conference (ANEC) is the leading regional nutrition conference in Africa held biennially in various parts of the continent. ANEC provides a forum for nutrition scientists, public health professio
17/1
2018
Webinar: The Scope of a Food Loss and Waste Inventory
Hybrid Event, 17/01/2018
January 17, 2018 from 10:00 – 11:00 am ET The World Resources Institute organizes a free two-part webinar on using the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard (FLW Standard, for short): Part I (30 minutes)• Learn how to describe the scope
06/4
2018
08/4
2018
Preventing food loss and waste in supply chains Training at the International Climate Show
Hybrid Event, 06/04/2018 - 08/04/2018
Geneva - Switzerland The International Climate Show will be held at Palexpo Geneva from 6 to 8 april 2018 and will be the Marketplace for industrial technologies and solutions for the protection of the climate and the reduction of the carbon emissions.
26/3
2018
FLW relevant job opportunities with FAO : consultant positions in Budapest/Hungary
Hybrid Event, 26/03/2018
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia is looking for candidates to be hired for the follwing positions: Food Waste Specialist (180086) Type of Requisition: Consultant Location: Hungary-Budapest Posting Date: 29/Jan/2018 Cl
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Food Loss and Waste Management during Covid-19: Exploring the Major Challenges and Future Directions Along the Food Supply Chain
01/01/2021
A special Issue of Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. A collection of scientific articles from all around the world.
LA CONSERVATION DES GRAINS APRÈS RÉCOLTE
01/01/2016
La totalité de la production agricole idestinée à l’alimentation humaine ne parvient pas à ses destinataires en raison de pertes au cours de la phase dite de « post-récolte » qui comporte les étapes entre la récolte et la transformation des produits pour l’alimentation. Dans le contexte d’augmentation de la...
Coping strategies of dairy cooperatives and loss and waste reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of India and Japan
01/04/2021
Unlike any other crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted food value chains at all levels (production, processing, logistics and even consumer behaviour to name a few). The impacts vary across countries and are constantly changing with the spread of the pandemic as governments, stakeholders and other actors in value chains...
Magnitude, Causes and Scope for Reducing Food Losses in the Baking and Confectionery Industry - A Multi-Method Approach
01/01/2021
This study, conducted in Poland, offers valuable results for developing programmes and strategies to prevent and manage food losses in BCI. Many of the solutions proposed in both toolkits can bring economic benefits without involving additional high costs. Since human nutrition is closely dependent on cereal production, research was undertaken aimed...
Review: Food loss and waste in Sub-Saharan Africa
01/01/2017
The research, development practitioner, and donor community has begun to focus on food loss and waste – often referred to as post-harvest losses (PHL) – in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article reviews the current state of the literature on PHL mitigation. First, we identify explicitly the varied objectives underlying efforts to...