Recommended reads ahead of the Food Systems Summit – Action track 2: Shift to sustainable consumption patterns
04/08/2021
Action track 2 will work to build consumer demand for sustainably produced food, strengthen local value chains, improve nutrition, and promote the reuse and recycling of food resources, especially among the most vulnerable.
Ahead of the Food Systems Summit, browse a list of FAO publications related to Action track 2: Shift to sustainable consumption patterns.
Food loss and waste-related
The State of Food and Agriculture 2019 – Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction
The 2019 edition provided new estimates of the percentage of the world's food lost from production through the retail level, suggesting that identifying and understanding critical loss points in specific supply chains is crucial to defining appropriate measures.
Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research
Despite broad agreement in policy circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps in information still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps; summarizes recent research that tries to fill these gaps; and identifies five challenges for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in reducing food loss and waste.
Further reading
- Do good: save food! School kit
- Food loss analysis for tomato value chains in Egypt
- Food loss analysis for grapes value chains in Egypt
- Fish waste management – Assessment on potential production and utilization of fish silage in Bangladesh, Philippines and Thailand
- Quantity and quality food losses across the value Chain: A Comparative analysis
- Post-harvest management in horticultural value chains: factsheets and guidance notes
- The environmental impact of reducing food loss and waste: A critical assessment
Related websites
- SAVE FOOD: Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction
- Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste
- Community of Practice on Food Loss and Waste Reduction
- Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition
- INPhO, the Information Network on Post-harvest Operations
Food systems-related
This year’s edition presents the first global assessment of food insecurity and malnutrition for 2020 as well as new estimates of the cost and affordability of healthy diets.
This report aims to discuss policies and mechanisms that promote sustainable outcomes – economic, social and environmental – in agricultural and food markets, both global and domestic.
Further reading
- A quantitative analysis of trends in agricultural and food global value chains (GVCs)
- Agricultural value chains and social and environmental impacts: trends, challenges and policy options
- Assessing the impact of trade and other policies on global value chain (GVC) participation, positioning and vertical specialization in agriculture and food
- Competition, market power, surplus creation and rent distribution in agri-food value chains
- Enabling sustainable food systems: innovators’ handbook
- Local government planning for community food systems
- Rapid capacity assessment tool – Strengthening capacities to enhance responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
- Urban food systems governance: current context and future opportunities
- Innovative business models for small farmer inclusion
- The convergence of food diets: characterizing consumption patterns, food diversity and the relationship to trade
AMR-related
The Antimicrobial Resistance Multi-Partner Trust Fund aims to secure consistent financing for the implementation of the National Action Plans (NAPs). Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, work advanced in 2020 at both the global and country levels.
Animal nutrition strategies and options to reduce the use of antimicrobials in animal production
The strategies are intended to reduce the risk of the presence of potentially harmful substances in feed and water. General dietary measures to promote gastrointestinal tract health include the selective use of a combination of feed additives and feed ingredients.
Further reading
- Antimicrobial resistance policy review and development framework
- Carryover in feed and transfer from feed to food of unavoidable and unintended residues of approved veterinary drugs
- The performance of antimicrobial susceptibility testing programmes relevant to aquaculture and aquacultural products
- Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting in collaboration with OIE on Foodborne Antimicrobial Resistance: role of the environment, crops and biocides
- Prudent and efficient use of antimicrobials in pigs and poultry
- Tackling antimicrobial use and resistance in pig production: lessons learned in Denmark
- Tackling antimicrobial use and resistance in dairy cattle: lessons learned in Sweden
Policy briefs
- Ample supplies to help shield food markets from the COVID-19 crisis
- Coping strategies of dairy cooperatives and loss and waste reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of India and Japan
- COVID-19 and the role of local food production in building more resilient local food systems
- COVID-19 and the risk to food supply chains: how to respond?
- Food system policy priorities and programmatic actions for healthy diets in the context of COVID-19
- Food systems and COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean - How to reduce food loss and waste
- How to reduce food loss and waste for food security and environmental sustainability
- Responsible investment and COVID-19: addressing impacts, risks and responsible business conduct in agricultural value chains
Forthcoming
- The State of Food and Agriculture 2021
