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FAO Food Loss App (FLAPP) recognized as a WSIS Prizes 2025 Champion
08/07/2025
Investment opportunities and legislation frameworks on FLW. Some relevant FAO resources are available
30/08/2022
Food loss and waste (FLW) is a global burden with a negative impact on the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. The loss and waste of food suitable for human consumption hampers food security and nutrition and hinders the realization of the human right to ...
We Can All Help Reduce Food Loss and Waste | UN Chronicle
28/09/2022
Reducing food loss and waste represents a “triple-win” opportunity—for the climate, for food security and for the sustainability of our food systems. It must be a priority in these times of rising food insecurity, malnutrition and hunger across the globe.
For many of us on the planet tod...
Articles
Events
24/4
2023
27/4
2023
The Transformation We Need | 4th global conference of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme
Hanoi (Vietnam), 24/04/2023 - 27/04/2023
Contributing to the 2023 Stock-Taking Moment of the UN FSS follow-up process, this conference will look at how food systems need to be transformed to overcome these crises in order to minimize the risk of global collapse and achieve the SDGs.
12/5
2015
SAVE FOOD meeting @ Nestlé
Vevey (Switzerland), 12/05/2015
Vevey, Switzerland - In occasion of the SAVE FOOD annual general meeting a “Private Sector Support for Food Loss and Waste Reduction Projects” event is going to take place. Mireille Totobesola-Barbier is presenting the UN Rome-based agencies joint project
Projects
Publications
Food loss analyses to identify critical loss points, main causes of losses and to recommend solutions to reduce post-harvest losses
01/01/2021
The UN Rome-based agencies joint project aimed to improve smallholder food security and incomes in food deficit areas by reducing food losses. The Project contributes to the African Union Malabo Declaration (AUC, 2014) in which Member States committed to halve the levels of post-harvest losses by 2025.
Food loss in grain value chains. Causes and recommended solutions
01/01/2017
An Infographics that illustrates the different steps along the studied value grain chains by food loss causes and recommended solutions, as a tool to support training and dissemination of good practice at field level. A joint RBA project has studied and identified the main causes and solutions for food loss and waste reduction along sorghum, beans, maize, cowpea and rice value chains in Burkina Faso, DRC and Uganda.
Community of Practice on food loss reduction
01/06/2017
Community of Practice on food loss reduction flyer to explain how the CoP serves as a convener of knowledge and experience and for networking between different actors and institutions.
Multimedia
IDAFLW 1st celebration - Interview with Rosa Rolle, FAO
29/09/2020
Rosa Rolle, FAO officer, highlights how food loss and waste present challenges to meeting our goals of feeding a growing population, but there are steps we can take to diminish food loss and waste.
Food is never waste coalition
23/09/2021
In New York, during the UN Food Systems Summit all commitments to action were disclosed, and the "Food is Never Waste Coalition" was launched. This video describes the rationale and aims of the coalition.
How to tackle food loss and waste
14/10/2019
Every year, around one-third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted. Food loss and waste has all kinds of consequences for economies, food security and the environment. A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, explains where exactly these losses are occurring along the food chain, from farm to fork, and how countries are stepping up to tackle the problem.