The ongoing pandemic has threatened the food and nutritional security of millions of Latin Americans and Caribbean people. These interruptions in the links of the value chain of the agri-food system have resulted in greater food loss and waste. We are not yet in a position to say when the rate of contagion will decrease, or when we will return to normal. Such uncertainty makes it imperative to analyze how food losses and waste (FLW) affect food systems, and how this can be prevented.

This Policy brief jointly produced by FAO and ECLAC explains all implications and actions aimed at FLW reduction and reletad policies.

Read more here (available also in Spanish).