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Study: America’s food loss problem starts with the consumer

This is the first study that’s said to offer a data-driven glimpse into the refrigerators of American homes.
August 30, 2019
Americans throw out a lot more food than they expect to, according to a new study released by researchers at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
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Leading food experts issue global agenda to halve food loss, waste by 2030

This effort is designed to guide businesses, governments, civil society and others in the food system to play an active role in tackling food loss and waste, individually and collectively.
August 30, 2019
New research from top food and agriculture experts suggests the world is at a critical moment in the fight against food loss and waste.
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Feeding America, Feeding Texas, Collaborative for Fresh Produce partner to fight food waste

To tackle hunger, the collaborative uses state-of-the-art technology and optimizes supply chain logistics to offer growers, shippers and wholesalers an outlet to address large-scale quantities of surplus produce.
June 12, 2019
Feeding America, Chicago; Feeding Texas, Austin, Texas; and the Collaborative for Fresh Produce, Richardson, Texas, partnered to address hunger and food waste in the Southwest and develop a regional model that can be scaled nationally.
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Research: Products from food waste market will observe CAGR 5% by 2029

Consumers in affluent countries are known for buying more food than required, and then tend to waste it, thus generating opportunities for products from the food waste market.
May 23, 2019
Products from the food waste market will observe a CAGR of 5% by 2029, according to research presented by Future Market Insights, Valley Cottage, N.Y.
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Report connects food loss, hunger, consumer demand, climate change

By 2030, new emerging traceability technologies like IoT sensors, blockchain and food-sensing technologies could reduce food loss by 85 million tons.
January 23, 2019
Aiming to address global demand for food, The World Economic Forum, Switzerland, released “Innovation with a Purpose: Improving Traceability in Food Value Chains through Technology,” a report that investigates the role of disruptive technology applications capable of effectively tracing inefficiencies in food value chains.
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Research shows 58% of food produced in Canada is wasted

Conservative best before dates that lead to industry and consumers throwing away food that is still safe and edible.
January 17, 2019
Based on responses from more than 700 food industry leaders across Canada, The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste report identifies approximately 30 root causes of food loss and waste.
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Study: France most sustainable country

France is the most sustainable country, showing high scores across nutritional challenges, sustainable agriculture and food loss and waste.
November 29, 2018
France is the top high-income country in the 2018 Food Sustainability Index (FSI), which ranks 67 countries according to their food system sustainability.
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Sustainable food champions reveal progress toward food loss, waste reduction

Ten of the world’s largest food brands have not only set targets to halve their food waste by 2030, but also committed to publishing the food waste data for their operations within the next 12 months.
September 25, 2018
Nearly two-thirds of the world’s 50 largest food companies now participate in programs with a food loss and waste reduction target, according to the new Champions 12.3 progress report.
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