FAO and Messe Düsseldorf are collaborating with donors, bi- and multi-lateral agencies and financial institutions and private sector partners (the food packaging industry and others) to develop and implement the programme on food loss and waste reduction.
- 34th Session of the Regional Conference for the Near East and North Africa(NERC)
The 34th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for the Near East (NERC-34) will be held in the Red Room at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, from 7 to 11 May 2018. The conference will start with a three-day meeting for Senior Officers from 7 to 9 May, followed by a Ministerial Meeting on 10 and 11 May 2018.
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Global food losses and food waste
The study highlights the losses occurring along the entire food chain, and makes assessments of their magnitude. Further, it identifies causes of food losses and possible ways of preventing them [...]
Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste
Food losses and waste represent a serious depletion of technical, financial and natural resources invested in land preparation, production, harvesting, handling, processing and packaging of food. [...]
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and World Food Programme (WFP) launched the joint project “Mainstreaming food loss reduction initiatives for smallholders in food deficit areas” which is funded by the Swiss Government. The project aims to tackle food losses in grains and pulses value chains in three pilot countries (Burkina Faso, DRC and Uganda), and one of its outcomes is a web-based Food loss reduction Community of Practice.