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1 Aug 2016
A report from the FAO North America Liaison Office in Washington D.C. Written by Genna Tesdall.
The ugly food fever has spread to the United States. US ...
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6 Jun 2016
From FLW Protocol
The Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard (or FLW Standard) is a global standard that provides requirements and guidance for quantifying and ...
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4 Mar 2016
On 1 March 2016 the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) Commission of Natural Resources (NAT) hosted a policy debate on food waste. The Opinion working ...
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5 Feb 2016
Every year, about 1/3 of the food produced for human consumption gets lost, counting for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Developing countries post-harvest loss ...
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5 Jan 2016
Opportunities for public-private-civil society collaboration
Expert Panel Discussion15 January 2016CityCube Berlin
Annually, about one third of the food produced world-wide for human consumption, approximately 1.3 billion tons, is ...
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18 Dec 2015
On the occasion of the Forty-second Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) the governments of Brazil and Italy have co-organized with the Food ...
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16 Nov 2015
Prior to the turn of the 20th century, the disposal of food waste ranked relatively low on the international agenda and in global discussions on agricultural ...
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16 Sep 2015
Rome, Italy - FAO Headquarters
The seminar focused on discussing policies and sharing experiences on FLW reduction and management within the broader context of food ...
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28 Sep 2015
FAO won the poster competition with its ‘Vicious circle of fish losses, vulnerability of natural resources and the poverty trap in small-scale fisheries’
The World Seafood Congress ...