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Sep 5, 2019 · The UN set a global goal to cut food loss and waste in half by 2030. Alarming figures show just how big of a challenge remains. Nearly a third of all food produced in the world goes uneaten each year -- an amount that costs the global economy $940 billion and emits 8% of planet-warming greenhouse gases. At the same time, 1 in 9 people is ...
- Katie Flanagan
- Develop National Strategies For Food Loss and Waste Reduction.
- Create National Public-Private Partnerships.
- Launch A "10X20x30" Supply Chain Initiative.
- Reduce Smallholder losses.
- Launch A "Decade of Storage solutions."
- Shift Consumer Social Norms.
- Go After Emissions Reductions.
- Scale Up Financing.
- Overcome The Data deficit.
- Advance The Research Agenda.
Only a handful of nations have established strategies to reduce food loss and waste, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Ethiopia. National strategies help align public policies, private sector actions, farmer practices, and consumer behavior toward a shared goal, so it's critical that more nations create strategies to halve food los...
Reducing food loss and waste requires action across the entire food supply chain as well as supportive public policies. No single institution can drive a 50% economy-wide reduction on its own. Public-private partnerships have an emerging track record, having launched in countries like the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. In the UK, th...
Food losses often occur during production and, especially in low-income countries, during handling and storage. Launching a private sector campaign where at least 10 of the largest food and agriculture companies commit to act and engage their 20 largest suppliers to do the same by 2030 (hence, 10x20x30) could have a big impact. This approach levera...
If we're to halve food losses, efforts to assist smallholders with productivity and efficiency need a big boost---especially in reaching smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, regions that lose an estimated 26% of their food during harvesting, handling and storage. Approaches include training farmers in reducing losses, creating access ...
What if the 2020s became a decade of making food storage technologies ubiquitous, affordable and climate-friendly? Doing so would tackle a huge hotspot of food loss and waste in low-income countries, helping ensure more food makes it safely to market. Innovations in solar-powered coolers and "lease-to-own" financing arrangements for villages can he...
Behavioral science tells us that increased knowledge of an issue alone does not necessarily translate into changed behavior. What successful initiatives like the UK's 'Love Food, Hate Waste' campaign have shown is that you must give people information and make it easy for them to change their behavior. That's why 'Love Food, Hate Waste' ran adverti...
Reducing food loss and waste is an underappreciated greenhouse gas mitigation strategy. By tackling food loss and waste from emissions-intensive beef, dairy and rice, these food sectors can reduce their impact on climate. Another strategy is for countries to add food loss and waste reduction to their national climate plans, known as Nationally Dete...
Many of the promising solutions to reduce food loss and waste need an influx in financing to take off. In 2016, The Rockefeller Foundation launched the $130 million YieldWise initiative to tackle food losses in Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania, and food waste in North America and Europe. In 2019, the World Bank launched a $300 million Sustainable Devel...
Without more and better data to understand the scale and scope of the food loss and waste challenge, we risk not being able to identify hotspots, hone reduction strategies and monitor progress. Over the next five years, the world needs a concentrated push to measure the quantity of food loss and waste in a more consistent way so that data is compar...
Public and private research institutions have an important role, helping answer questions that will allow the world to refine strategies for reducing food loss and waste. These are questions like: Which solutions are showing the best return on investment? What technologies are most promising? What can behavioral science tell us about how to shift s...
- Katie Flanagan
Jul 29, 2022 · An assessment of the food situation in 2017 showed that Kenya produced 37 million bags of maize, of which 12% was estimated to have been lost post-harvest due to pathogens, insects and rodents (Tarus 2019). High aflatoxin levels contribute to losses in maize production (Omara et al. 2021; Kimatu et al. 2012).
Apr 17, 2024 · Kenya faces significant food insecurity challenges, with the number of undernourished people reported at 14.7 million by the end of 2022, and prevalence rates of moderate to severe food insecurity reaching 72.3%. At the same time, Kenya records substantial food loss and waste of perfectly edible food at different levels of the food supply chain.
Aug 29, 2022 · The Global Food Donation Policy Atlas issued a recent report that may help empower Kenyan leaders to meet 2030 food waste reduction goals. After analyzing Kenya’s current policy, the report recommends ways to increase food donations, reduce food waste, and fight hunger. The Global Food Donation Policy Atlas is the joint effort between Harvard ...
Oct 3, 2021 · About 576,410 tonnes of food go to waste in Kenya every year, according to the Food Waste Index Report 2021, released in March by UNEP. ... It said one of the key measures to reduce food loss is ...
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SCALING FOOD SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION IN KENYA. SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGSKenya will need to make significant transformationsthroughout the. ountry’s food system to meet climate, biodiversity and health objectives.Kenya is a biodiversity hotspot which requires the country to integrate actions to reduce land conversions and scale nature-positive ...
