Focus Area 3.2 Sustainable food supply chains to achieve healthy diets in the context of economic, social and environmental sustainability, and climate change
Sub-focus Area 3.2.4 Improving food storage, processing, packaging, transformation and reformulation
Recommendation Number: 3.2.4.b
Governments, private sector, and farmers and other producers and their associations should promote minimizing food loss and waste on farms, during post-harvest storage, and throughout processing, transportation, and retail. This includes demand-driven training and capacity to improve management practices and foster the adoption of appropriate technologies(*1). They should intensify efforts to quantify and investigate how to lessen food loss in the food storage, processing, transformation and reformulation stages and food waste in retail and consumer stages in order to halt the decrease of food quality and quantity and economic loss, but also could lead to a more efficient use of natural resources with positive impact on climate change.
The identified documents have been grouped into four categories: UN evidence-informed documents, UN normative guidance documents, UN operational/technical guidance documents and other documents that have been published by non-UN bodies.