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A coalition of executives dedicated to inspiring ambition, mobilizing action, and accelerating progress toward achieving SDG Target 12.3 by 2030 Globally, a third of all food is lost or wasted between the farm and the fork. Reducing food loss and waste can be a triple win: It can save money for farmers, companies, and households; wasting less can feed more people; and reductions can alleviate pressure on climate, water, and land resources. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, a coalition of leaders – Champions 12.3 – launched a new effort to inspire ambition and mobilize action to reduce food loss and waste globally. This leadership group aims to accelerate progress toward meeting Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which seeks to halve per capita food waste and reduce food losses by 2030. The Champions include CEOs of major companies, government ministers, and executives of research and intergovernmental institutions, foundations, farmer organizations, and...

Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction... Rome Italy - Reducing food loss and waste is widely seen as an important way to increase the efficiency of the food system, improve food security and nutrition and contribute towards environmental sustainability. Growing attention to this issue is reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Many countries are already taking action to reduce food loss and waste, but the challenges ahead remain significant, and the efforts will only be effective if informed by a solid understanding of the problem. This year’s the State of Food and Agriculture - one of FAO's major annual flagship publications offering a science-based assessments of important issues in the field of food and agriculture - focuses on food losses and waste. Importantly, the report provides new estimates of the world’s food loss, which indicates that globally – in terms of economic value – around 14 percent of food produced is lost from post-harvest up to the ...

The global demand for agricultural products is set to rise by 60 percent, according to the head of the Federation of Food and Drink Industry Association (TGDF) of Turkey. Preventing food loss has been a top priority for providing universal sustainable food access, Semsi Kopuz told Anadolu Agency. All have the right to healthy and balanced nutrition, which all nations that signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, should work together to provide, he underlined. He added that countries should primarily focus on eliminating the causes of food shortages, including climate change, wars, conflict and unjust income distribution. He said: "Apart from countries, the private sector can also take steps, such as in efforts to prevent food waste." Some 1.3 billion tons -- or one of three units -- of all food produced worldwide is wasted annually, he underlined. "The UN 's goal to end hunger cannot be reached only by raising production. Reducing food loss i...

Chairman of Agricultural Development Foundation Mehmet Taşan has made a written statement and emphasized the importance of World Food Day celebrated on 16th of October every year... Press release... In parallel with the world population growth, meeting the food needs has made the agricultural sector one of the most strategic sectors of the century. There is no substitute source for the agricultural sector that produces food and raw materials necessary for human survival and nutrition. The most basic human right is the physical and economic access to sufficient, healthy, safe and nutritious food in order to meet the nutritional needs of an individual in order to maintain an active and healthy life. Societies that cannot produce food cannot be fully independent and free. It should not forget that the way of our freedom is to meet our food with national means. Although human beings produce enough food to feed the whole of the world's population every year, nearly 800 milli...