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 ...

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 ...

These are the words of Amina J. Mohamed, Minister of Environment of Nigeria, and at the heart of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ ...

The Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction works on capacity development along the food supply chain and at institutional level for evidence-based policies, strategies, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A focus on food prices and price transmission effects Jointly drafted by FAO and LEI Wageningen UR, this paper uses scenario analyses to investigate how reductions in ...

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 ...

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 ...