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

Malawi

Farmer Betrice Barnet harvesting groundnuts in a field

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...

Articles
04/05/2023

Food loss and waste (FLW) reduction is key to transforming food systems to deliver food security, while responding to climate change and reducing other environmental impacts. Food production and postharvest systems differ with location, reflecting the diversity of agroecological and socio-economi...

20/03/2020

Since the first case was confirmed in Africa in late February, numbers have grown to over 4,500 cases in...

 
Events

16/ 10

2023

Rome (Italy), Hybrid Event, 16/10/2023

This year World Food Day theme is “Water is life, water is food. Leave no one behind”. It spotlights how water is essential to life on Earth and the foundation of our food.

As rapid population growth, urbanization, economic development, and climate change put the planet’s water resources under increasing stress, the campaign will look at solutions and call for action to produce more fo...

12/ 12

2022

Virtual Event, 12/12/2022

A Food Loss and Waste Master class will be held in December 2022. This virtual event will be addressed to youth who want to discover more about the causes of food loss and waste and solutions to achieving the SDG 12.3 target.

19/ 11

2014

Nairobi (Kenya), 19/11/2014

In the framework of the Food Processing and Packaging Exposyum (FPPE) 2014 on 19 November (9:00-17:00 hrs) FAO will held a one-day event on FOOD LOSS REDUCTION – PARTNERSHIP AND CAPACITY BUILDING Session 1: Learning from Development Partners 

 
Projects
Title Global initiative on food loss and waste reduction
Project Code none
Donor Ireland
SDG(S)
 
Publications
31/12/2022

Diets are not only determined by individual behaviours and choices, but are also highly influenced by the food environments in which people make their food purchases. Territorial markets, by the quality and quantity of food they sell and the prices at which they sell it, exert a fundamental influence on dietary patterns, and are crucial to the food security and nutrition of the communities they serve.

First Africa-wide Postharvest food loss reduction Congress and Exhibition
01/09/2018

To improve global, regional and local knowledge about the underlying reasons for food loss, as well as to assess where critical loss points occur, FAO undertook a series of case studies involving numerous food supply chains in developing countries. Utilizing a defined food loss and waste analysis framework.

First Africa-wide Postharvest food loss reduction Congress and Exhibition
01/09/2018

To improve global, regional and local knowledge about the underlying reasons for food loss, as well as to assess where critical loss points occur, FAO undertook a series of case studies involving numerous food supply chains in developing countries. Utilizing a defined food loss and waste analysis framework.

 
Multimedia
19/05/2016

FANRAPAN regional climate-smart agriculture policy dialogue hosted in Lusaka in August 2015 and some practical ways to reduce pre- and post-harvest losses in the Zambia and Malawi experiences