Preventing food loss and waste boosts food security, curbs climate change and creates economic benefits.
Are you a restaurant, university, grade school, manufacturer or grocery store looking to
prevent food loss and waste?
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This funding seeks to support promising programs that have the potential to significantly reduce
food waste and loss — with the ultimate goals of
preventing loss, maximizing donations of usable
food,
and minimizing
food waste that ends up in landfills.
In May 2015 under the Turkey Presidency, the G20 agriculture ministers highlighted the extent of
food loss and waste (FLW) as «a global problem of enormous economic, environmental
and societal significance»
and encouraged all G20 members to strengthen their collective efforts to
prevent and reduce FLW.
Preventing food loss at the source reduces costs by saving ingredients, packaging, labor
and waste removal.
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.
Further With
Food will feature content on best practices for preventing, recovering and recycling food loss and waste; educational materials; research results; and information on existing government, business and community initiati
Food will feature content on best practices for
preventing, recovering
and recycling
food loss and waste; educational materials; research results; and information on existing government, business and community initiati
food loss and waste; educational materials; research results;
and information on existing government, business
and community initiatives.