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16 Jun 2015
A major activity of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department is on food loss and waste reduction in the whole fish supply chain, from harvesting to ...

15 Jun 2015
Johannesburg and Tshwane, South Africa, 2 - 5 June 2015
From 2 to 5 June 2015 South Africa hosted a multi-stakeholder consultation workshop to gather information ...

2 Jun 2015
Vevey, Switzerland
THE RESPLENDENT grounds of the Nestlé headquarters on the shoreline of Lake Geneva was the location of the 4th annual SAVE FOOD meeting on May ...

1 Jun 2015
FAO Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction (also called SAVE FOOD) is providing knowledge to the students participating in the "Bocconi 4 Expo".
The international ...

28 May 2015
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) recently addressed Food Loss and Waste (FLW) prevention and reduction in order to promote more equitable and sustainable food ...

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 ...

28 Apr 2014
The SAVE FOOD initiative was launched by FAO and Messe Düsseldorf at the International Congress on Food Loss and Waste held at the Interpack trade fair ...
8 Apr 2014
If private households and the retail sector ( including wholesale, hotels and restaurants) in the EU reduce food waste by 40% in 2020, this will result ...

12 Nov 2017
The 23rd annual session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 23) has officially kicked off and ...
