Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste

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News

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...

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Events

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Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel), 28/04/2015 - 30/04/2015

Tel Aviv, Israel. The 19th International Agricultural - Agritech Israel 2015 is one of the world’s most important exhibitions in the field of agricultural technologies. The exhibition will be held April 28 – 30, 2015 at the Israel Trade Fairs and Convent

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2015

Amman (Jordan), 28/04/2015 - 29/04/2015

Amman, Jordan - FAO Regional Office for the Near East in collaboration with the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is organizing a Regional Multi-Stakeholder workshop on Food Security and Nutrition, in Amman, Jordan from the 28-30th April, 2015. On th

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2016

Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 16/02/2016 - 17/02/2016

Abu Dhabi /  Parallel General Session 3 - Horticulture (17 February 2016) Innovative agro-logistics to reduce post-harvest losses from farm to fork. The session will present case study material from Egypt, Morocco, Benin and Nigeria.

 
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Publications
Regional Strategic Framework Reducing Food Losses and Waste in the Near East & North Africa Region
01/01/2015

This document outlines a Regional Strategic Framework for reducing food losses and waste in the region. It responds to the FAO NERC-31 (in May 2012) recommendation calling on FAO to “assist member countries in addressing the key challenges of reducing food waste and losses by conducting comprehensive studies".

22/04/2021

The Food Waste Index Report aims at supporting the goals of SDG 12.3. It does so by presenting the most comprehensive food waste data collection, analysis and modelling to date, generating a new estimate of global food waste.

 
Multimedia
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.

14/10/2019

Although there may be an economic loss, food diverted to other economic uses, like animal feed, is not considered as food loss or waste, nor are the inedible parts of food products.