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Tackling food loss and waste from the farm to the table and beyond | IDAFLW Press release
27/09/2024
International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste 2024 | Call to Action
30/05/2024
UNEP and WRAP launch the Food Waste Index Report 2024
27/03/2024
Articles
National Food Loss and Waste Prevention Strategies and Monitoring Approaches—an Interdisciplinary Challenge for Decision Makers, Researchers and Practice
30/11/2021
Dr. Thomas Schmidt, Stefan Lange and Dr. Felicitas Schneider from Thünen Institute worked as guest-editors for a special issue of the Journal "Sustainability" addressing „National Food Loss and Waste Prevention Strategies and Monitoring approaches – an interdisciplinary challenge for decision makers, researchers and practice“.
The impact of refrigeration on food losses and associated greenhouse gas emissions throughout the supply chain
29/05/2024
One-third of food produced globally is wasted while approximately 800 million people suffer from hunger. Meanwhile, food losses produce approximately 8% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study develops a food loss estimation tool to assess how improved access to the cold chain could impact food loss and its associated GHG emissions for seven food types in seven regions.
Global food loss and waste estimates show increasing nutritional and environmental pressures
29/01/2024
Accurate global food losses and waste (FLW) quantification remains challenging owing to limited harmonized global estimates, a lack of comprehensive quantification approaches and an absence of frameworks for addressing FLW challenges. Here we compile a country-level database that assesses FLW acr...
Events
27/ 9
2024
International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste 2024 | Save the Date
Virtual Event, 27/09/2024
The fifth observance of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste will highlight the critical need for financing to bolster efforts to reduce food loss and waste, contribute to achieving climate goals and advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
24/ 8
2024
Post-Harvest Loss Innovation Prize
Virtual Event, 24/08/2024
Shell Foundation and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) aims to increase farmer incomes by reducing post-harvest losses in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. To accomplish this objective, it is necessary to implement scalable, cost-effective solutions that cater to the post-harvest requirements of smallholder farmers. These solutions should encourage sustainable agr...
27/ 3
2024
UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2024 - Launch Event
Virtual Event, 27/03/2024
To mark the second annual International Day of Zero Waste, UNEP will launch its Food Waste Index Report 2024 on 27 March 2024. The report provides the latest global ...
Projects
Publications
Wholesale Markets – Public Spaces for Interconnected Food Policies
08/11/2024
The report emphasizes that wholesale markets are not just distribution hubs, but critical infrastructure supporting food security, economic growth, and community well-being. With case studies from around the globe, it showcases how these markets help create resilient, efficient food supply chains.
Get Involved - International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, 29 September 2024
12/07/2024
The fifth observance of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste will highlight the critical need for financing to bolster efforts to reduce food loss and waste, contribute toachieving climate goals and advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Sustainable Cooling in Off-Grid Rural Areas | The Nexus between Access to Energy and Clean Cooling
31/05/2024
Based on a literature review and electrification experiences on the ground, the report seeks to clarify key concepts related to cooling needs and opportunities in rural off-grid areas and the synergies between access to cooling and to electricity, identify important issues and barriers along with policy tools to address them, and, finally, based on this initial assessment, formulate preliminary recommendations and signal areas for further work.
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Investing in food loss and waste prevention and reduction| IDAFLW 2024
29/09/2024
The fifth observance of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste highlighted the critical need for financing to bolster efforts to reduce food loss and waste, for achieving climate goals and advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The world produces enough food to feed everyone, and yet millions suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste - UN Secretary General message | 29 September 2020
29/09/2020
António Guterres, UN Secretary-General on the occasion of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (29 September 2020)