This report lays out 10 “scaling interventions” designed to accelerate and spread adoption of policies and practices to help achieve a 50 percent reduction in food loss and waste worldwide, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3.
This report builds off the Reducing Food Loss and Waste: Setting a Global Action Agenda report, which introduced a three-part action agenda to achieve SDG 12.3: (a) the Target-Measure-Act approach, (b) an actor-specific to-do list, and (c) 10 “scaling interventions” designed to take the Target-Measure-Act approach and to-do list to scale. This report expands on the 10 “scaling interventions” by giving more detail and how these 10 interventions can be implemented.
According to available estimates, approximately one-third of all food produced in the world intended for human consumption is lost or wasted. This level of inefficiency in the global food system has significant economic, social, and environmental impacts.