Toolkit : reducing the food wastage footprint.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Food Wastage Footprint (Project)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply.

Food industry and trade.

Waste (Economics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (119 p.)

Place of Publication:

Rome : FAO, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Content""; ""List of Boxes""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Reduce ""; ""Recycle/Recover ""; ""Landfill (burying or dumping): last resort option ""; ""Conclusion""; ""References and Further Reading""; ""Annex Guidelines and pledges favouring food wastage reduction ""

Notes:

Accompanied by 1 booklet: Annex: guidelines and pledges favouring food wastage reduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-102).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

92-5-107743-6

OCLC:

866620515