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FAO welcomes global recognition of fruits, vegetables, tea and food loss and waste
20/12/2019
19 December 2019, New York/Rome - FAO welcomes today's decision by the United Nations to create two new international days and one international year devoted to issues directly related to food and agriculture.
The UN General Assembly adopted resolutions designating 2021 as...
FAO and Kyoto University partner to reduce food waste
20/01/2020
A pilot project implemented by Kyoto University in 2019, aimed at raising awareness on food waste in canteens on the campus, and enhancing the knowledge and engagement of students in reducing food loss and waste, determined that approximately 20 per cent of food is wasted in canteens on campus...
Technical webinar - Sustainable food systems and nutrition: Food post-harvest losses
24/03/2020
On 25 March 2020 will start a series of technical webinars,
Lessons from the SDC capitalization of experiences exercise on PHM Programs in SSA
30/03/2020
Lessons from the SDC capitalization of experiences (CAPEX) exercise on Postharvest Management (PHM) Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
In 2008, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) ...
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Events
14/2
2018
16/2
2018
4th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference (AAPC)
Hybrid Event, 14/02/2018 - 16/02/2018
Dodoma, Tanzania - Integrating Food and Nutrition Security into Economic Transformation and IndustrializationHow can agriculture be the driver rather than follower of economic transformation in Tanzania? A presentation titled The Effect on Post-Harvest L
31/8
2018
FAO CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST - VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Hybrid Event, 31/08/2018
Technical Specialists - Post harvest, value addition/food loss and waste reduction Closure Date : 31/Aug/2018, 11:59:00 PM Organizational Unit: AFS/RAP Type of Requisition: Consultant / PSA (Personal Services Agreement) Grade Level: N/A Primary Loc
26/4
2018
27/4
2018
FAO workshop on SDG indicator 12.3.1
Hybrid Event, 26/04/2018 - 27/04/2018
This Capacity Development workshop represents an opportunity to increase awareness of this indicator and enhance the capacities of government representatives from selected countries on the indicator’s methodology and underlying data needs. For this purpos
08/5
2018
CGIAR PIM webinar - Measuring food losses: a new methodology
Hybrid Event, 08/05/2018
The United Nations has recognized the importance of reducing food loss and waste in the Sustainable Development Goal target 12.3 to “halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply ch
20/10
2018
Call for Papers of Virtual Special Issue on Food Waste: Multidisciplinary Efforts towards UN Sustainable Development Goals Target 12.3
Hybrid Event, 20/10/2018
Food losses and food waste (FLW) has become a worldwide problem in recent years and is widely identified as a key barrier to global sustainability (Xue et al. 2017). Consequently, reduction of FLW has emerged as a priority on the global, regional, and nat
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Food losses and waste: how Brazil is facing this global challenge?
01/01/2017
By 2017, Brazil seems to have finally awakened to the problem of food loss and waste. In this article, we resume the topic started in the article “Postharvest losses of perishables in Brazil: what do we know so far?” published earlier this year, but now with an emphasis on food...
Postharvest losses of perishables in Brazil: what do we know so far?
01/01/2017
Although difficult to pin down an exact figure, the idea that postharvest losses (PHL) of perishables in Brazil stand at 30-45% has been widely accepted. In spite of the modernization of production systems and the logistics and distribution of perishables in the last decades, postharvest losses continue to be a...
Good practice in the design, management and operation of a fresh produce packing-house
01/04/2012
Well designed packing house facilities that conform to the principles of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and which are equipped with an appropriate level and scale of post-harvest technology are critical and important in fresh produce supply chains.
Toolkit. Reducing the Food Wastage Footprint
01/01/2013
The aim of the Toolkit is to showcase concrete examples of good practices for food loss and waste reduction, while pointing to information sources, guidelines and pledges favoring food wastagereduction.TheinspirationalexamplesfeaturedthroughoutthisToolkitdemonstrate that everyone, from individual households and producers, through governments, to large food industries, can make choices that will ultimately lead...