International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

The United Nations General Assembly has designated September 29 as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW). This day is organized in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with both organizations jointly leading the day’s events.

The primary aim is to increase awareness about the significance of food loss and waste issues and explore potential solutions at all levels. It also seeks to encourage global efforts and collective action towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3, which aims to halve global food waste per capita at the retail and consumer levels by 2030 and reduce food losses throughout the production and supply chains.

CGIAR supports this initiative and joins FAO, UNEP, and other relevant organizations in the global call to action against food loss and waste.

Relevant CGIAR news

• Postharvest innovations to improve food safety
• Rebecca’s Story of Turning Waste into a Livelihood
• Reducing food loss and waste for climate outcomes: Insights from national consultations in Bangladesh, Malawi and Nepal
• Five innovations reducing loss and waste in aquatic food systems
• Reducing loss and waste in aquatic food systems a win for food and nutrition
• Reducing Fish Loss and Waste with a Systems Thinking Approach
• Fish Loss and Waste: Tanzania Trailblazes a Multidmensional Approach
• Enhancing Agricultural Practices: Insights from the Impact of AICCRA’s Kenya Agri Hackathon on Post-Harvest Losses
• Innovation hackathon sparks ideas for solving post-harvest losses in Senegal
• Forging partnerships to tackle invasive species in Ghana’s farming communities
• Ghanaian farmers use of natural remedies to protect crops against pests and diseases featured in series ‘The Climate and Us’
• Reducing food loss and waste in Bangladesh
• Reducing food waste: How to make it work?
• International Day of Zero Waste: Reducing loss and waste in fruit and vegetable supply chains

Relevant CGIAR publications

• Trade-Off Analyses of Food Loss and Waste Reduction and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Food Supply Chains
• Executive Summaries Country Profiles on Food Loss and Waste: China, Colombia, Kenya and Vietnam
• Mitigate+: Food Loss and Waste country profile Vietnam
• Mitigate+: Food Loss and Waste country profile Kenya
• Mitigate+: Food Loss and Waste country profile Colombia
• Mitigate+: Food Loss and Waste country profile China
• Project note – Food Loss and Waste country profile for Kenya
• Closing the Data Gap: A Model for National-Level Food Loss and Waste Data Generation in the absence of Existing Data
• Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research
• Understanding smallholder’s productivity by measuring food losses, soil perception and soil variability
• Quantity and quality food losses across the value Chain: A Comparative analysis
• On the origins of food loss. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
• Food Losses in Agrifood Systems: What We Know. Annual Review of Resource Economics
• State of the knowledge on food waste in the world
• Solar-powered cold-storage and agrifood market modernization in Nigeria
• Solar Power to Transform Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods: Evidence from a Solar-Powered Cold Storage Intervention in Nigeria
• The economy-wide effects of reducing food loss and waste in developing countries
• Reduction in food loss and waste through fish value chain, market and food system innovation

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