Georgian changemaker’s fight for food security turns surplus into sustenance and waste into hope.

Launched under the patronage of First Lady Emine Erdoğan, Türkiye’s Zero Waste initiative marked its eighth anniversary this week, celebrated as a homegrown environmental project that has grown into a global movement recognized by the United Nations.

The updated legislation will introduce binding food waste reduction targets, to be met at national level by 31 December 2030: 10% from food processing and manufacturing and 30% per capita from retail, restaurants, food services and households.

Under the banner Sustainable Transformation of Municipal Markets in Panama: Circular Economy and Zero Waste, the initiative is reimagining markets as spaces where waste is turned into value—recovering, recycling, and reinvesting back into the community.

FAO is proud to announce that the Food Loss App (FLAPP) has been nominated as a World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2025 Champion under Action Line C7 – E-agriculture. This recognition reaffirms FAO’s leadership in digital innovation for sustainable food systems and the global fight against food loss.

In Vilnius, capital of the Baltic state of Lithuania, fly larvae have officially been given the job of processing the 2,700 tonnes of food waste the city's 607,000 residents put out for collection each year, alongside that of the six neighbouring councils.

Baldío in Mexico City is part of a new wave of restaurants embracing a regenerative ethos – there is no bin.

Cyprus on Friday agreed to expand its cooperation with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), focusing on food waste, water resource management, and food security. The decision came during an official meeting in Nicosia between Agriculture Minister and FAO director-general.

Professor Marian Asantewah Nkansah, an Environmental Chemist, said Ghana’s food waste problem exceeds global trends, despite millions of people facing the risk of hunger.

Just a few days before Stop Food Waste Day on 30 April, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has successfully delivered the first regional edition of a virtual learning course on tackling food loss and waste (FLW).

People who care about nutrition are more effective at cutting food waste than those motivated by sustainability alone, a new study has found.

The FAO Food Loss App (FLAPP) has just been selected as one of the top 20 projects competing in the 8th edition of the prestigious WSIS Prizes 2025.

Twenty Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) have successfully completed a specialised training programme aimed at addressing food loss and waste, a growing challenge to Kenya’s food security.

The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (Sesri) at Qatar University (QU), in collaboration with the Ministry of Municipality’s Food Security Department, organised a panel discussion on “Estimating the Food Loss and Waste Index: Towards Achieving Food Security and Sustainability”.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has appointed the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters as Global Goodwill Ambassadors recognizing the US team’s dedication to raising awareness about food insecurity, food waste, and the importance of healthy diets.

The FAO Food Loss and Waste team visited an international school based in Rome to raise awareness on food loss and waste to present the interactive Food Loss and Waste Challenge, launched on the IDAFLW 2024, and to share a FLW poem jointly produced along the year. 

أقامت منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة (المنظمة)، بالتعاون مع برنامج الأمم المتحدة للبيئة وجامعة الدول العربية، احتفالية في القاهرة بمناسبة اليوم الدولي الخامس للتوعية بالفاقد والمهدر من الأغذية. وجمعت الفعالية، التي أقيمت وفق تنسيق مختلط (حضوري وافتراضي)، مجموعة من أصحاب المصلحة من جميع أنحاء المنطقة لتسليط الضوء على الجهود الرامية إلى خفض الفاقد والمهدر من الأغذية، مع تركيز خاص على الحاجة الماسة إلى المزيد من الاستثمارات لتعزيز هذه الجهود.

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