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12 Jun 2019
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia organized a consultation workshop in Chisinau, Moldova, where key government officials, including the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development ...
21 Feb 2019
Food waste has a high social, economic and environmental cost, but also ethical consequences as 821 million people are chronically undernourished. Thus, food waste prevention has ...
7 Nov 2018
Loss and waste of nutritious foods needs to be an urgent ‘new’ priority for improving diets and nutrition. Both fundamentally affect the availability and affordability of foods which ...
20 Sep 2018
Recognizing that children and young people are the consumers that will shape the food waste scenario of the future, thus investing in their education to reduce ...
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 ...
26 Aug 2014
On October 2013 the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries launched the No-Foodloss Project as a cooperation between six Ministries in Japan: Consumer Affairs Agency, Government ...
26 Jun 2014
Japan discards approximately 18 million tonnes of food annually, an amount that accounts for 40 percent of national food production. Although food loss and waste problems ...