The side event will launch the FAO and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) G20 Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste and highlight knowledge and concrete steps required to scale-up food loss and waste prevention and reduction. During the Turkish G20 Presidency, FAO provided significant inputs to the G20 work both on agriculture and development.
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The Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction (SAVE FOOD) and its Partners are in Paris to highlight how reducing global food loss and waste (FLW) offers an important opportunity to meet climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives while improving access to low-emission technologies and contributing to food security. As part of the LPAA on Agriculture, SAVE FOOD will showcase how food supply chain actors, representing farmers, industry, policy-makers and civil society, through a global partnership have committed themselves to reduce FLW. Read more...

The alliance is aligned with the Hunger Eradication Plan of CELAC 2025 and the new Sustainable Development Goals. In Latin America and the Caribbean, food loss and waste per capita amounts to roughly 223 kg per year, a figure that countries want to halve by 2030 through a new Regional Alliance for Food Loss and Waste Reduction. Read more...

The amount of foods imported to China has surged dramatically in recent years, approaching nearly 6 percent of total domestic food production. China is facing a great challenge of ensuring food security, but the country’s annual amount of food loss and waste occurred in the stages of food supply chain before final consumption, such as household and warehouse storage, transport, and processing, surpasses 35 billion kg. This number is nearly as much as 6 percent of China’s total food production and equals to the food output of Jilin Province in 2014. Read more...

The European Commission’s Directorate General for Health and Food Safety in collaboration with SAVE FOOD (under the 2015 Series of International Conferences on Food Loss and Waste Reduction) and Expo Milan 2015 hosted a one day conference entitled ‘Fight Food Waste, Feed the Planet’ at the Expo grounds in Milan, Italy on October 15. Featuring a diverse group of more than 200 European actors tackling food waste at various levels of the food supply chain, Fight Food Waste, Feed the Planet was key in placing food recovery and redistribution high on the agenda at the Expo Milan 2015. Read more...

The National workshop on post-harvest fish losses in Indonesia (Fish Loss Assessments: Causes and Solution Case studies in the Small-scale Fisheries in Indonesia) was organized on 3 November 2015 under the partnership between Koperasi Artha Mina (KAM) of the Research and Development Center for Marine and Fisheries Processing Product and Biotechnology (RDCMFPPB), Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research and Development (AMFRD), the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF), and FAO as an implementation of “Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction". Read more...

Food loss and waste from fruit and vegetables are as high as 50 percent (Gustavsson et al. 2011). There is lack of information on micro-nutrient losses in the food supply chains. Given the large scale of micro-nutrient deficiencies and the need of diversified diets to prevent and control micro-nutrient deficiencies worldwide, there is a real need for nutrient loss data to assess the causes and scale of the problem. Read more...

The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) is an international conference that focuses on central questions concerning the future of the global agri-food industry. FAO is organizing the Expert Panel Discussion with topic "Promotion of urban food security and nutrition through redistribution of food at risk of loss or waste", Friday 15 January 2016. Read more...

The Consultation aims specifically at updating and integrating a preliminary version of country reports identifying policies that have an impact on food waste reduction and prevention. Data was gathered in EU Member states and Associated states covered by FUSIONS.
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This book acts as a guide to recover valuable safe and nutritious components from food-related materials with a view to their reintroduction in the food supply chain. The book investigates all the relevant recovery issues and compares different techniques to help advance research and develop new applications. Read more...

Estimates of post-harvest losses of fruits and vegetables are estimated between 20 and 40 percent. These losses are very high and represent a major economic loss not only for farmers but for the economy in terms of nutritional value, cultural value, and value of work, expertise and resources that were used in the produce. Read more...

The Women in Parliaments Global Forum Meeting at the Expo Milan on the 13 October 2015 represented an opportunity to discuss issues such as women in agricultural development, food waste, nutrition and health in the framework of Expo Milano 2015. Read more...

The sessions of the The First International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention which took place in Rome between October 4-7 are now available via the ADM Institute’s YouTube channel. The Congress was organized by the ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss at The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in collaboration with SAVE FOOD and other partners such as The Rockefeller Foundation and the US government’s Feed the Future Initiative.

Annakshetra has now stepped in to address the issue of the food loss at schools and started its campaign 'Tiffin Annakshetra'. Therefore, awareness among children is needed to stop food-waste. Children are the best messengers to society; they will further spread the message to create a movement to ‘No More Food To Waste’.

CaFAN's Chief Coordinator nominated for the ACP-EESC: the Caribbean Farmers Network is pleased to announce that Mr. Jethro Greene, chief coordinator of CaFAN has accepted his nomination to sit on the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN), an international non-governmental organization that creates and supports food banks around the world, is pleased to announce the selection of Lisa Eakman Moon as the organization’s president and chief executive officer.

Thai and Australian chefs together with Unep unite to fight food waste. The UN Environment Programme Asia Pacific has enlisted the support of Australian food rescue organisation, OzHarvest, to educate and raise awareness about the issues of global food waste, food security and sustainability.

SARDI’s research programs are designed to increase the productivity, sustainability and adaptability of the state’s agriculture, food and wine, fisheries and aquaculture and bioscience enterprises, create opportunities for market growth, address barriers to growth and provide applied solutions. One such focus area is the reduction and transformation of Food Loss and Waste (FLW). SARDI is leading multiple research projects on calculating the costs of FLW in Australia, as well as developing novel regional approaches to turning primary production losses and industry waste into valuable co-products.

Tetra Pak has launched its 2015 sustainability report, which highlights the company’s achievements in environmental performance, social responsibility and good governance over the past year.

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) in India has joined The World Food Preservation Center (WFPC)® LLC, located at Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA. The World Food Preservation Center® LLC is a consortium of fifteen “sister” universities located across the globe and ARO Volcani Center in Israel, to reduce postharvest food losses in developing countries and diminish world hunger.