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to guide a national strategy on food waste prevention, food waste estimates that are sufficiently sensitive to pick up changes in food waste over two- or four-year intervals, and that enables meaningful comparisons among countries globally.
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Mar 4, 2021 · If we want to get serious about tackling food waste, we need to increase efforts to measure food and inedible parts wasted at retail and consumer level and track food waste generation in kilograms per capita at country level.
Feb 15, 2022 · The Food Waste Index Report aims at supporting the goals of SDG 12.3. It does so by presenting the most comprehensive food waste data collection, analysis and modeling to date, generating a new estimate of global food waste; and publishing a methodology for countries to measure food waste, at household, food service and retail level, to track ...
Nov 25, 2024 · As of 2021, 28 of the world's 50 largest food companies were measuring their food loss and waste. And only 19 of these were publicly reporting on it. Moving forward, all major companies should start reporting food waste data from their operations, similar to how most now disclose their carbon emissions.
Mar 26, 2021 · Around 931 million tonnes of food goes to waste each year. 61% comes from households, 26% from food service and 13% from retail. Reducing waste could have social, economic and environmental benefits. The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to halve food waste by 2030.
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Mar 4, 2021 · On a global per capita-level, 121 kilograms of consumer level food is wasted each year, with 74 kilograms of this happening in households. The report also includes regional and national per capita estimates. Food waste has substantial environmental, social and economic impacts.
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To effectively address this issue and reduce food loss and waste at a national, provincial and territorial, municipal, agri-food sector, industry, and individual business level, it is crucial to know how much uneaten food is being lost or wasted in these different contexts.
