Tag: food waste
Americas: Enactus announces global food loss, waste competition
Enactus board member and Brambles CEO Tom Gorman launches global initiative, 1 Race 2 End Waste, to reduce food loss and waste in developing...
World: Report finds unsustainable food system with hungry people
Today’s global food system has major weaknesses: nearly 800 million people are left hungry, one-third of the human race is malnourished, over half of...
Europe: FSA commits to cutting down food waste
The Foods Standards Agency (FSA) has pledged its support to UK’s resource efficiency charity WRAP that brings together organizations from across the food system...
Europe: BASF promotes responsible food consumption in Spain
BASF is hosting a week of activities in Barcelona, Spain on responsible food consumption as part of its 150th anniversary celebrations.
The meeting facilitates co-creation,...
Americas: Study finds meat waste more costly than plant-based food
Approximately 31% of food produced in the US, or 133 billion pounds of food worth US$162 billion, was wasted in 2011, according to the...
Europe: Autogrill chain of restaurants, FAO to reduce food waste
Autogrill, which has motorway and airport restaurants in 30 countries, is partnering with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to...
Americas: USDA releases app to help consumers reduce food waste
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has launched a food application that informs users on how to store food and beverages to maximize their...
Europe: Reduce consumer food waste by 20-50% to save US$120B a...
Reducing consumer food waste could save between US$120 billion and US$300 billion per year by 2030, according to a new report by The Waste...
Europe: WRAP lists five recommendations to cut food waste
The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates that an increase of just one day on product life across a range of foods could...
Americas: FutureFood 2050 shares insights on controlling food waste
Reducing the world’s 1.3 billion tons of wasted food every year may hold the key to sustainably feeding 9 billion people by 2050, according...