FAO resources on food loss and waste
17/10/2019
Reducing food loss and waste is an important target of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as a means to achieve other SDG targets, in particular relating to food security, nutrition and environmental sustainability.
On the occasion of the release of the State of Food and Agriculture 2019. Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction, here is a selection of FAO titles exploring the linkages between food loss and waste and food security, and suggesting ways of reducing waste while improving nutrition and environmental sustainability.
- Food loss and waste and the right to adequate food: Making the connection
This publication focuses on the need to develop sustainable global consumption and production systems to help realize the right to adequate food, while arguing for a human rights-based approach to tackle food loss and waste. - Gender and food loss in sustainable food value chains: A guiding note
This guidance note on integrating gender concerns into food loss responses proposes an approach that consists of value-chain mapping, identification of constraints and solutions, and social risk assessment. - How access to energy can influence food losses: A brief overview
This report identifies the main stages of the food value chain where increasing access to energy can play a dominant role in reducing food losses directly (by making food processing possible) as well as indirectly (by influencing the rate at which cooling technologies are adopted). - Save food for a better climate: Converting the food loss and waste challenge into climate action
This paper identifies ways to reduce food loss and waste as part of collective climate-related efforts while simultaneously delivering the other objectives of the Sustainable Development Agenda.
Further reading
- Technical platform on the measurement and reduction of food loss and waste
- Food losses and waste in the context of sustainable food systems − A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
- Case studies on managing quality, assuring safety and reducing post-harvest losses in fruit and vegetable supply chains in south Asian countries
- FAO Food Loss Analysis (FLA) reports and factsheets
- OECD−FAO guidance for responsible agricultural supply chains
- Developing gender-sensitive value chains − Guidelines for practitioners
