Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
As part of the Paris Climate Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 2oC, annual emissions reductions from agriculture must reach 1 gigatonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e/yr) by 2030. Plausible options to do this only deliver 21–40% of this target. Agricultural systems are witnessing ambitious goals and require transformative actions. Across food systems actions include: application of next generation technologies, increasing investment flows and improving returns, change in pattern of landholdings, enhancing capacities through skill development and capacity building, and via changes in the distribution and dynamics of the population and labour force. This transformation would generate multitude of benefits such as education, nutrition, health, water, sanitation, and empowerment of women and youth, and transforming rural livelihoods and indigenous communities.
The case of reducing food losses and waste; Engaging Consumers for ChangeFrancois Stepman
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Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
As part of the Paris Climate Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 2oC, annual emissions reductions from agriculture must reach 1 gigatonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e/yr) by 2030. Plausible options to do this only deliver 21–40% of this target. Agricultural systems are witnessing ambitious goals and require transformative actions. Across food systems actions include: application of next generation technologies, increasing investment flows and improving returns, change in pattern of landholdings, enhancing capacities through skill development and capacity building, and via changes in the distribution and dynamics of the population and labour force. This transformation would generate multitude of benefits such as education, nutrition, health, water, sanitation, and empowerment of women and youth, and transforming rural livelihoods and indigenous communities.
The case of reducing food losses and waste; Engaging Consumers for ChangeFrancois Stepman
The case of reducing food losses and waste; Engaging Consumers for
Change by Toine Timmermans, WUR
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IFPRI Africa Regional Office
RUNNING Head: IMPACTS ON FOOD SYSTEMS. 1
IMPACTS ON FOOD SYSTEMS 8
Impacts of Food Systems.
Students Name.
Institutional Affiliation.
Impacts on food systems.
Introduction
Sustainability in food systems entails the provision of the food security and nutrition which are essential to maintain and promote the living condition of the people under the earth (Ericksen, Ingram, & Liverman, 2009). The food system is according to the four pillar that defines its implication in any society. These four pillars are stability, availability, utilization and access. According to Food and Agriculture Organization, food security refers to “all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”(Source, FAO SOFI 2011).
When four pillars are conjoined together with the sustainability and nutrition, a desirable food system foundation is therefore achieved. With such food programs, they will mainly lead in making a multiple SDS (Sustainable Development Goals). Because of these to monitor and provide a desirable food system in any country, a Global Food System Index is crucial in tracking and monitoring progress. In the ultimate of the global food system, we address the six important dimensions by the GFSI which traces their progression. These critical dimensions are social sustainability, health and nutrition consumptions, environmental productivity, climate and ecological sustainability and market dynamics (Shown in Figure 1).
Therefore the ideal goal of a food system tries to effectively dialogue challenges to ecological and human welfare transversely in all of its phases. The dimension arrives from the theories and concepts involving food systems which will inform and guide the relevant managerial personnel in their decisions after the consideration of the report on the available data’s provided in concern of the behaviors portrayed by the target group like tourists in any environment when food is involved for life sustenance.
Global economic growth in investments, trade, food and Market Dynamic
Food system synthesis propels the global financial increase in investment, trade and food prices — they makeup all that happens and is the boundaries of the market dynamic as stated to be one of the critical dimensions guiding the food systems and its synthesis. To have a desirable food system, we require to have: an interaction in food supply chains which functions with all fundamental priors in the whole food system and also a well-operating trade and market dynamics (McCarthy, Lipper, & Branca, 2011). Using good trade and market strategies we can regulate and reduce the adverse effects caused by the market astonishment and hence drastically.
Food waste is a major, highly visible global problem. It has recently attracted much attention in the world and has become a priority in the global political agenda. Food waste occurs at different stages of a food value chain, including agriculture, post harvest, processing, distribution, retail, and consumption. Regardless of the causes, we can all pitch in to combat the global challenge and turn waste into worth. This paper provides an introduction on global food waste. Matthew N. O. Sadiku | Tolulope J. Ashaolu | Sarhan M. Musa "Global Food Waste: A Primer" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-1 , December 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29485.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/home-science/food-science/29485/global-food-waste-a-primer/matthew-n-o-sadiku
Food is life and the global food sustainability is essential to human being survival. The global food system is highly
complex and is driven by various factors including environment, cultural, social and economic drive. It is vital to understand
these drivers and their interaction in order to help to improve the public food sustainability policies. Global polices and projects
desperately required in order improving the global food sustainability. Food sustainability is one of the unsolved global issues
and great commitment is required starting from global policy makers, national governments, and every individual home. This
research paper includes analysis and study of various elements such as global change science, policy, food crisis, factor affecting
and challenging food security, data on status and future projection and potential ways of solving problems. The goal of food
sustainability is to enable all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and have a reasonable quality of life without
compromising the quality of life of future generations. Agriculture sustainability is the best solution which can feed the world
without compromising the environment or threatening human health. Scientific evidence that global environment has changed
is overwhelming and indisputable. These phenomena have a direct impact on agriculture which in turn affects food
sustainability. The food price is always toward upward trend which is validated by the periodic average global food price
monitoring report released by the Food and agricultural organizations. The factors affecting and challenging the food security
are many including increased food consumption due to population increase, uneven distribution, changes in living styles, limited
resources, environmental problems, economic problems and others. The potential ways to solve food sustainability need to be
established and implemented effectively across the world.
A NEW ERA IN THE WAR AGAINST WASTE:TWO-TIER PREVENTION TARGETSRamy Salemdeeb
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The food gap stems primarily from population growth and changing diets. The global population is projected to grow to nearly 10 billion people by 2050, with two-thirds of those people projected to live in cities. In addition,
at least 3 billion people are expected to join the global middle class by 2030. As nations urbanize and citizens become wealthier, people generally increase their calorie intake and the share of resource-intensive foods—such
as meats and dairy—in their diets. At the same time, technological advances, business and economic changes, and government policies are transforming entire food chains, from farm to fork. Multinational businesses are increasingly in uencing what is grown and what people eat. Together, these trends are driving a convergence toward Western-style diets, which are high in calories, protein, and animal-based foods. Although some of this shift re ects health and welfare gains for many people, the scale of this convergence in diets will make it harder for the world to achieve several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including those on hunger, healthy lives, water management, climate change, and terrestrial ecosystems.
This report was prepared for the Global Food Security Programme (GFS) by Mark Bond and Theresa Meacham, with inputs from Riaz Bhunnoo and Tim Benton. GFS is a partnership of the UK’s main public funders of research on issues around food security (see www.foodsecurity. ac.uk for details). This report should be cited as:
Bond, M., Meacham, T., Bhunnoo, R. and Benton, T.G. (2013) Food waste within global food systems. A Global Food Security report (www.foodsecurity.ac.uk).
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RUNNING Head: IMPACTS ON FOOD SYSTEMS. 1
IMPACTS ON FOOD SYSTEMS 8
Impacts of Food Systems.
Students Name.
Institutional Affiliation.
Impacts on food systems.
Introduction
Sustainability in food systems entails the provision of the food security and nutrition which are essential to maintain and promote the living condition of the people under the earth (Ericksen, Ingram, & Liverman, 2009). The food system is according to the four pillar that defines its implication in any society. These four pillars are stability, availability, utilization and access. According to Food and Agriculture Organization, food security refers to “all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”(Source, FAO SOFI 2011).
When four pillars are conjoined together with the sustainability and nutrition, a desirable food system foundation is therefore achieved. With such food programs, they will mainly lead in making a multiple SDS (Sustainable Development Goals). Because of these to monitor and provide a desirable food system in any country, a Global Food System Index is crucial in tracking and monitoring progress. In the ultimate of the global food system, we address the six important dimensions by the GFSI which traces their progression. These critical dimensions are social sustainability, health and nutrition consumptions, environmental productivity, climate and ecological sustainability and market dynamics (Shown in Figure 1).
Therefore the ideal goal of a food system tries to effectively dialogue challenges to ecological and human welfare transversely in all of its phases. The dimension arrives from the theories and concepts involving food systems which will inform and guide the relevant managerial personnel in their decisions after the consideration of the report on the available data’s provided in concern of the behaviors portrayed by the target group like tourists in any environment when food is involved for life sustenance.
Global economic growth in investments, trade, food and Market Dynamic
Food system synthesis propels the global financial increase in investment, trade and food prices — they makeup all that happens and is the boundaries of the market dynamic as stated to be one of the critical dimensions guiding the food systems and its synthesis. To have a desirable food system, we require to have: an interaction in food supply chains which functions with all fundamental priors in the whole food system and also a well-operating trade and market dynamics (McCarthy, Lipper, & Branca, 2011). Using good trade and market strategies we can regulate and reduce the adverse effects caused by the market astonishment and hence drastically.
Food waste is a major, highly visible global problem. It has recently attracted much attention in the world and has become a priority in the global political agenda. Food waste occurs at different stages of a food value chain, including agriculture, post harvest, processing, distribution, retail, and consumption. Regardless of the causes, we can all pitch in to combat the global challenge and turn waste into worth. This paper provides an introduction on global food waste. Matthew N. O. Sadiku | Tolulope J. Ashaolu | Sarhan M. Musa "Global Food Waste: A Primer" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-1 , December 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29485.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/home-science/food-science/29485/global-food-waste-a-primer/matthew-n-o-sadiku
Food is life and the global food sustainability is essential to human being survival. The global food system is highly
complex and is driven by various factors including environment, cultural, social and economic drive. It is vital to understand
these drivers and their interaction in order to help to improve the public food sustainability policies. Global polices and projects
desperately required in order improving the global food sustainability. Food sustainability is one of the unsolved global issues
and great commitment is required starting from global policy makers, national governments, and every individual home. This
research paper includes analysis and study of various elements such as global change science, policy, food crisis, factor affecting
and challenging food security, data on status and future projection and potential ways of solving problems. The goal of food
sustainability is to enable all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and have a reasonable quality of life without
compromising the quality of life of future generations. Agriculture sustainability is the best solution which can feed the world
without compromising the environment or threatening human health. Scientific evidence that global environment has changed
is overwhelming and indisputable. These phenomena have a direct impact on agriculture which in turn affects food
sustainability. The food price is always toward upward trend which is validated by the periodic average global food price
monitoring report released by the Food and agricultural organizations. The factors affecting and challenging the food security
are many including increased food consumption due to population increase, uneven distribution, changes in living styles, limited
resources, environmental problems, economic problems and others. The potential ways to solve food sustainability need to be
established and implemented effectively across the world.
A NEW ERA IN THE WAR AGAINST WASTE:TWO-TIER PREVENTION TARGETSRamy Salemdeeb
If the world is to feed its predicted population of 9 billion in 2050, the issue of food waste must be addressed. Could a two-tier approach, in which developed nations implement waste reduction projects in developing countries, offer the greatest benefits to all?
Food planet health Fabrice DeClerck CLUES 2020Alain Vidal
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Institutional, political and legal initiatives for the prevention and reducti...FAO
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The food gap stems primarily from population growth and changing diets. The global population is projected to grow to nearly 10 billion people by 2050, with two-thirds of those people projected to live in cities. In addition,
at least 3 billion people are expected to join the global middle class by 2030. As nations urbanize and citizens become wealthier, people generally increase their calorie intake and the share of resource-intensive foods—such
as meats and dairy—in their diets. At the same time, technological advances, business and economic changes, and government policies are transforming entire food chains, from farm to fork. Multinational businesses are increasingly in uencing what is grown and what people eat. Together, these trends are driving a convergence toward Western-style diets, which are high in calories, protein, and animal-based foods. Although some of this shift re ects health and welfare gains for many people, the scale of this convergence in diets will make it harder for the world to achieve several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including those on hunger, healthy lives, water management, climate change, and terrestrial ecosystems.
This report was prepared for the Global Food Security Programme (GFS) by Mark Bond and Theresa Meacham, with inputs from Riaz Bhunnoo and Tim Benton. GFS is a partnership of the UK’s main public funders of research on issues around food security (see www.foodsecurity. ac.uk for details). This report should be cited as:
Bond, M., Meacham, T., Bhunnoo, R. and Benton, T.G. (2013) Food waste within global food systems. A Global Food Security report (www.foodsecurity.ac.uk).
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The International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
1.
2. The IDAFLW will make a clear call
to action for public and private
entities to take action to reduce
food loss and waste (FLW)
towards transforming agrifood
systems to contribute to the
achievement of the 2030 Agenda.
THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL DAY
OF AWARENESS OF FOOD LOSS AND
WASTE (IDAFLW) WILL BE OBSERVED
ON 29 SEPTEMBER 2023.
3. The IDAFLW will be held at a time when the global
economy faces tremendous strain from climate change,
conflicts, slowdowns and downturns and high food prices
exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the on-going
war in Ukraine.
The 2023 report of the State of
Food Security and Nutrition in
the World (FAO et al., 2023)
highlights that up to 783
million people across the
globe faced hunger in 2022,
while more than 3.1 billion
people were unable to afford a
healthy diet in 2021).
While hunger and food security continue, an
estimated 13 percent of the world’s food is
lost in the supply chain from post-harvest
prior to the retail stage of the supply
chain (FAO, 2022); a further 17 percent
of food is wasted in households, food
services and in retail (UNEP, 2021).
Currently, many of the world’s
agrifood systems are
unsustainable, as they degrade
agricultural land, contribute
to greenhouse gas emissions
and loss of biodiversity and
consume groundwater. Food
systems are also vulnerable
to external climate and other
shocks, partly because of the
impact on the environment.
Action is required to
transform agrifood systems
globally, to improve their
resilience, efficiency, sustainability and
inclusiveness in ways that positively impact
food security, enable healthy diets, and
contribute to better nutritional outcomes.
All this must be achieved, however, while
balancing trade-offs to mitigate the effects
upon our natural resource base (land, water,
biodiversity) and climate.
Reducing food loss and waste can play a
key role in the transformation of agrifood
systems by increasing the availability of
food, contributing to food security, healthy
diets, and building resilience. Food loss and
food waste reduction also serves as a key
climate strategy by reducing greenhouse
gas emissions (GHGs). It can therefore help
countries and businesses to raise climate
ambition, while conserving and protecting
our ecosystems and natural resources upon
which the future of food depends.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development – specifically SDG 12, Target
12.3 – calls for halving per-capita global food
waste at the retail and consumer levels and
reducing food losses along production and
supply chains. Target 16 of the Kunming-
Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
(GBF) among other issues, also calls for
“halving global food waste by 2030”.
We need to urgently accelerate the pace of
actions to reduce food loss and waste, and
transform agrifood systems, so as to meet
the SDG 12.3 Target, and that set by the
GBF – with tangible benefits for people and
the planet.
FOR THE PEOPLE!
FOR THE PLANET!
4. • Agrifood systems encompass farming, harvesting, fishing, livestock
rearing, storing, processing, transporting, selling, buying, eating
and disposal of our food. They also include non-food resources
from agriculture, such as cotton and forest products (FAO, 2021).
• Agrifood systems account for one-third of total greenhouse gas
emissions, (FAO, 2021).
• Pre and post-production processes in agrifood systems emit
significant amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas
generated mainly from the decay of solid food waste in landfills and
open dumps (Tubiello et al., 2022).
• Biodiversity is responsible for our food, our soil, our water, our
weather, even the air we breathe. Our global agrifood systems are
the primary driver of biodiversity loss (UNEP et al., 2021).
• Should the global population reach 9.6 billion by 2050, the
equivalent of almost three Earth-sized planets would be required to
provide the natural resources needed to sustain current lifestyles
(UN, Goal 12 Facts and Figures).
• The highest levels of food loss occur in foods – fruits and vegetables,
meat and fish – that are also nutrient dense (FAO, 2022).
• Food waste is not just a problem in high-income countries:
household food waste per capita is broadly similar across high,
upper-middle and lower-middle income countries (UNEP, 2021).
• Reducing food loss and waste contributes to enhancing the
sustainability and resilience of our agrifood systems (FAO, 2021).
• Concerted action can lead to real change: research and experience
shows that a combination of interventions to alter consumer
behaviour, including public awareness campaigns and effective
public–private partnerships can significantly reduce food waste at
the national level (UNEPCC, 2021).
DID YOU KNOW?
5. • Globally, agrifood systems produce some 11 billion tonnes of food
each year and form the backbone of many economies (FAO, 2021).
• In 2019, global agrifood system emissions accounted for 31
percent of total anthropogenic emissions (FAOSTAT Emissions
Shares Database, 2019).
• During the period 2010-2016, global FLW accounted for 8 to 10
percent of total anthropogenic GHG emissions (IPCC, 2019).
• Biodiversity loss continues to accelerate across the globe. Today,
more than ever before in human history, around one million animal
and plant species are threatened with extinction, many within
decades (IPBES, 2019).
• FAO’s estimates reported in 2022 set the Global Food Loss
Percentage at 13.3 percent (FAO, 2022).
• Fruits and vegetables account for approximately 32 percent of food
losses, followed by meat and animal products that account for 12.4
percent of food losses (FAO, 2022).
• On average, each of us produces 74 kg of food waste each year –
this weighs more than the average person (UNEP, 2021).
Global facts
and figures
6. • Reducing food loss and food waste must be central to the transformation
to MORE efficient, inclusive, sustainable and resilient agrifood systems for
better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life.
• Sustainably reducing food loss and food waste means we can potentially
increase the availability of and access to food. This can generate win–wins
across a number of SDGs, including nutrition targets, while contributing to
environmental sustainability.
• Countries must take action to reduce food loss and food waste. Profound
change in the prevention and reduction of food loss and waste can only take
place when countries develop and allocate sufficient human, organizational
and institutional capacity to tackle the issues.
• Reliable data is critical to informing actions to reduce food loss and food
waste, assessing GHG emissions across agrifood systems and increasing
supply chain efficiency toward transforming agrifood systems.
• New business models, such as mobile-based business-to-business supply
platforms that embrace innovation can enhance the efficiency of agrifood
systems, reduce food loss and food waste and contribute to accelerating
transformative change.
• Investments in sound logistics and in climate friendly technologies to reduce
food loss and food waste at scale are critical to catalysing the pace of
agrifood systems transformation.
• Circular strategies that prioritize the prevention of food loss and food waste,
followed by the recovery and redistribution of food, and the recapture of
value from by-products generated at each stage of the value chain support
transitioning to more sustainable agrifood systems.
• Cities play a key role in reducing food waste and are important game
changers in the battle to reduce food waste.
• Enabling policies that prioritize sustainable production, food loss and food
waste reduction and healthy diets for better nutrition, will go a long way to
supporting transformative change and achieving the 2030 Agenda.
• Knowledge sharing on platforms, through communities of practice and
education and awareness-raising campaigns can positively enhance the
engagement of stakeholders and inform action.
KEY MESSAGES
7. AREAS FOR ACTION
Reducing food loss and food waste is
a shared responsibility. All stakeholders
at all levels need to be involved:
governments, the private sector,
civil society, development agencies,
research and academic institutions and
consumers.
Collaboration is key – particularly
between the public and private sectors,
and with research and development
institutions.
As consumers, we all have a role to
play. Our collective efforts can make a
difference.
What can governments and decision-makers
do?
• Invest in national agriculture and
food data systems and seek to
engage with new sources of data
and methods to generate relevant
information to improve food loss and
food waste, increase food security,
healthy diets and transform agrifood
systems.
• Measure and report on SDG 12.3
using the Food Loss Index and the
Food Waste Index.
• Raise climate ambition by integrating
food loss and food waste in
Nationally Determined Contributions
(NDCs) to the Paris Agreement.
• Commit to working toward
transforming national agrifood
systems in favour of healthy diets
as key performance indicators in
company business models.
• Increase transparency and
accountability by measuring and
publicly reporting on food loss and
food waste.
• Pilot and scale interventions to
help supply chain stakeholders and
consumers to reduce food loss and
food waste.
• Work with governments, businesses,
public authorities, and local
charities to implement food waste
management plans, by using food
waste management apps or by
donating to charities.
• Engage in public-private partnerships
– that could support training,
infrastructure development and
behaviour change programmes – to
collaboratively tackle food loss and
reduce food waste across supply
chains and in households.
What role can research and academia
play?
• Help build the business case for
reducing food loss and food waste
by further quantifying the potential
benefits for food security, healthy
diets and the planet as well as
potential trade-offs.
• Innovate in new and better ways
to generate the data and evidence
required to track and advance
progress in reducing food loss and
food waste and ensure that data
collected is not biased.
and sustainable agrifood systems
that support the natural resource
base, so as to achieve climate goals
and deliver on the commitments
represented by SDG 12.3.
• When drafting policies related to
climate, biodiversity and trade,
consider adopting those related
to agrifood systems that prioritize
aspects such as sustainable
production, reduction of food loss
and food waste and healthy diets.
• Develop or support public-private
partnerships to tackle food loss and
food waste across supply chains and
in households, through for example,
investing in infrastructural support
development to support both food
loss and food waste reduction.
• Work with local authorities to increase
awareness of food loss and food
waste among youth: include subjects
related to food loss and food waste in
school curricular.
• Implement programmes to encourage
a change in consumer behaviour to
help citizens reduce food waste at
home.
What can private actors in the food supply
chain do?
• Invest in climate friendly research
and innovation. Take action to apply
and scale up successful innovations
that sustainably reduce food loss
and food waste across the agrifood
system.
• Include green and social targets
• Conduct context appropriate
research – to identify food loss and
food waste hotspots and practical
solutions – to reduce food loss and
food waste in a sustainable manner.
• Conduct research and evaluations
to identify the most effective
interventions that effect a change
in behaviour to reduce food waste
in the household across different
populations and in various contexts.
• Expand understanding of consumer
behaviour and food waste: publish
yearly reports on the advancement of
food waste per category and ensure
that data also relates to how food
waste impacts consumers in their
daily life.
• Work with science communicators to
translate the latest research evidence
on food loss and food waste for lay
audiences, including facts/figures and
graphics that promote understanding
and share them on social media.
• Develop and implement training
programmes to enhance the
capacities of varying stakeholder
groups to reduce food loss and food
waste.
•
Consumers
• Raise awareness among your peers
about the benefits to be derived from
reducing food waste.
• For more tips on reducing food waste
click here.
8. IDAFLW poster
The IDAFLW poster can be downloaded from the IDAFLW
2023 Asset Bank. The standard measurement is 100 x 70
cm, both horizontal and vertical formats available.
Here is a list of materials to promote the IDAFLW in the six official languages of FAO, which are
accessible on the IDAFLW website in the IDAFLW 2023 Asset Bank. Share them with external
partners or providers and follow the website for updates as new material will be added over the
coming months.
IDAFLW ribbon
You may find that your partners
cannot always use the full
IDAFLW visual. For example,
they may have their own
branding for an event. In these
cases, the IDAFLW ribbon can
be used. This is an important tool
for reinforcing the IDAFLW brand
and message. If you should wish
to use the ribbon or distribute
it to partners, send an email to
Food-Loss-Waste-Day@fao.org
Web banners
IDAFLW 2023 web banners [Long top banner (920 x 350 pixels) and square
sidebar (210 x 146 pixels) formats] are provided in the IDAFLW 2022 Asset Bank.
Gadgets
The IDAFLW 2023 Asset Bank provides graphics for the local
printing or production of:
t-shirts, mugs, bags
COMMUNICATIONS
TOOLKIT
12. CONTACT US! THE UN RECOGNIZES THE IMPORTANCE
OF REDUCING FOOD LOSS AND WASTE
On 19 December 2019, the United
Nations General Assembly adopted
resolution 74/209 proclaiming an
International Day of Awareness of
Food Loss and Waste.
The International Day of Awareness
of Food Loss and Waste seeks to
promote awareness and collective
action to reduce food loss and waste.
If you have any doubts or wish to
have more information, you can
send an email to
Food-Loss-Waste-Day@fao.org
www.fao.org/international-day-awareness-food-loss-waste
www.unep.org/events/un-day/idaflw
#FLWDay