BY REBIKA LAISHRAM , SARAH SCHWARTZ AND MARIA JONES Each year, about 1.3 billion tons of food produced for human consumption is lost after harvest and before reaching consumers around the world, according to the FAO. In India, postharvest losses amount... Source: IFPRI South Asia Office
Tackling Food Loss and Waste in NENA through a Voluntary Code of Conduct
January 12, 2019 Divine Njie - Deputy Strategic Programme Leader, Food Systems Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Background It is very difficult to give an exact figure of the quantities of food loss and waste (FLW) that occur in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. Nevertheless, what is not in doubt is […] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Measuring and reducing food loss in developing countries
This blog is cross-posted from the IFPRI website and was originally written by Swati Malhotra. The amount of food loss and waste in supply chains is significant. The most widely cited estimate, by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is that as much as one third of total usable global food production is not >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
