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What many people may not know is that one in nine people on earth don't have enough food to lead an active life, or that food loss and waste costs the global economy $ 940 billion each year, an amount close to what the entire UK government will spend in 2016.

The huge rate of food loss and waste should come as no surprise then, since most countries and companies do not quantify how much or where food is being lost or wasted.

We now have the kind of financial evidence that reducing food loss and waste is the right thing to do for bottom lines and people's pockets.

Our members need to effectively quantify, measure and report on their food loss and waste, and the FLW Standard will help them do this with consistency and transparency.»

The FLW Standard does not require that you use a particular quantification method because the quantification method (s) you choose will be influenced by your particular goals, the scope selected for your food loss and waste inventory, the human and financial resources available, and whether you have direct access to the physical lost or wasted food.

The FLW Standard does not establish a universal definition for food loss and waste because different organizations will have different reasons for quantifying lost or wasted food.

The FLW Protocol itself does not assure conformance of a food loss and waste inventory to the FLW Standard.

These case studies share why some are measuring food loss and waste and the benefits of doing so, how they define the scope of their food loss and waste inventory using the FLW Standard, and some of the innovations that are helping them achieve their goals.

The amount of food waste and food losses that result from our food systems are alarming, but as the 2016 Crawford Fund Annual Conference «Waste not, want not: the circular economy to food security» showed, there is much that can be done to reduce this food waste, to prevent these food losses, and to eliminate hunger.

But not only did I learn more about the issue of food waste, which actually should be termed «food waste and food loss», I also came away with an impassioned zeal to spread the word about food and agriculture more broadly.

In this webinar, we guide you through the resources available on the FLW Protocol website that make it easier for you to measure and report food loss and waste and use the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Report Standard (FLW Standard) to dofood loss and waste and use the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Report Standard (FLW Standard) to doloss and waste and use the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Report Standard (FLW Standard) to doFood Loss and Waste Accounting and Report Standard (FLW Standard) to doLoss and Waste Accounting and Report Standard (FLW Standard) to do so.

To join the U.S. Food Waste Challenge, organizations and businesses provide information on what they are doing in their operations to reduce, recover and / or recycle food loss and waFood Waste Challenge, organizations and businesses provide information on what they are doing in their operations to reduce, recover and / or recycle food loss and wafood loss and waste.

«Food loss and waste is an issue that must be prioritized, and it takes committed leaders to do that.

Several of the world's largest food companies are currently measuring and a growing number are publicly reporting on food loss and waste within their operations, but more must also do so.

Find recent reports from Champions 12.3 including our annual progress report on how the world is doing towards achieving Target 12.3 and the business case for reducing food loss and waste.

Use of bioenergy to draw down CO2 should employ feedstocks from residues, wastes, and dedicated energy crops that do not compete with food crops, thus avoiding loss of natural ecosystems and cropland [183]--[185].

Current prices for conventionally grown foods do not reflect the costs of federal subsidies to conventional agriculture, the cost of contaminated drinking water, loss of wildlife habitat and soil erosion, or the cost of the disposal and clean up of hazardous wastes generated by the manufacturing of pesticides.

Use of bioenergy to draw down CO2 should employ feedstocks from residues, wastes, and dedicated energy crops that do not compete with food crops, thus avoiding loss of natural ecosystems and cropland [183]--[185].