Toolkit: Reducing the Food Wastage Footprint - Softcover

Food And Agriculture Organization

Softcover

ISBN 10: 925107741X ISBN 13: 9789251077412

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org of the UN, 2013

Synopsis

One-third of all food produced in the world is lost or wasted from farm to fork, according to estimates calculated by FAO (2011). This wastage not only has an enormous negative impact on the global economy and food availability, it also has major environmental impacts. The direct economic cost of food wastage of agricultural products (excluding fish and seafood), based on producer prices only, is about 750 billion USD, equivalent to the GDP of Switzerland. The aim of the Toolkit is to showcase concrete examples of good practices for food loss and waste reduction, while pointing to information sources, guidelines and pledges favoring food wastage reduction. The inspirational examples featured throughout this Toolkit demonstrate that everyone, from individual households and producers, through governments, to large food industries, can make choices that will ultimately lead to sustainable consumption and production patterns, and thus, a better world for all.

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• Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org of the UN
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 925107741X
• ISBN 13: 9789251077412
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116