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International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021
16/12/2020
Speaking at the event the FAO Director-General described the initiative as "a unique opportunity to raise global awareness". He noted that the COVID-19 pandemic had challenged people to find new ways of fighting hunger and malnutrition and said IYFV would highlight the role of digital technologies in improving nutrition and market opportunities.
02/12/2020

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)  launched a new tool to help food business operators decide when to apply the ‘use by’ or ‘best before’ date to their products.

EFSA has developed a tool to help food business operators decide when to apply the ‘use by’ or ‘best before’ dat...

02/12/2020

In his address to the 165th Session of the FAO Council today, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, made a comprehensive report on the UN agency's work and engagement in the past 16 months, updating the Council on important activi...

01/12/2020

FAO hosted a discussion on the importance of reducing food loss and waste featuring the award-winning journalist Dan Saladino, FAO’s Chief Economist Máximo Torero, author and activist Tris...

Post-harvest Loss Briefing: Technologies and Management
01/12/2020

The Agritechnica Asia and Horti Asia digital talk about Post-Harvest Losses, which took place in late November, addressed the avoidance of losses by improved process management and handling of crops as well as opportunities to fund collaborative projects to introduce new technologies.

Agro-processors training organized by CARDI in Grenada
19/11/2020
Agro-processors and agro-processing groups interested in utilising a renewable energy resource for the preservation of food have commenced one week of training.
International day of awareness of food loss and waste
01/10/2020

On 29 September 2020, the first ever observance of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW) was celebrated. It came during the global COVID-19 pandemic, that has brought about a global wake-up on the need to transform and rebalance the way our food is produced and con...

Food Policy Special Issue - Food Loss and Waste
12/09/2020
Special Issue on Food loss and waste based on several SOFA 2019 findings articles is available for consultation.
11/09/2020

A webinar titled “Solar energy drying for root crop development in the Caribbean region” was convened on 6 August 2020, by the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) in the framework of a Letter of Agreement (LoA), with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Un...

Japan collects and shares good practices to accelerate actions for FLWR
10/09/2020
A variety of new businesses are encouraging the reduction of food loss and waste in Japan and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (MAFF) collects and shares the good practices to accelerate the actions to reduce food loss and waste.