If the losses caused by inefficient agrifood systems represent an economic cost today, they become a 'deferred payment' drawn from the future.

How a global database helps target action more effectively. Carola Fabi, senior statistician and methodological innovation team leader at FAO’s statistics division, walks us through the FAO FLW database.

Vast amounts of food are lost or wasted across the food chain, often before they ever reach our plates. But the real scandal of food waste is not only what it does to the climate or to landfills. It is that so much of it is not waste at all.

As the world marked the International Day of Zero Waste on Monday, a United Nations expert emphasized the urgent need to tackle food waste, warning that while billions of tons of edible food are lost along the supply chain each year, hundreds of millions of people continue to go hungry worldwide.

On the occasion of the International Day of Zero Waste, FAO, IFAD, and WFP, together with the Republic of Türkiye, marked the tenth anniversary of the Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste (TPFLW).