In the coming years, the demand for aquatic food is set to further rise. It is all the more important to minimise the huge losses incurred along the value chain. But to achieve this, they first of all have to be…

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Households across all continents wasted over one billion meals a day in 2022, while 783 million people were affected by hunger and a third of humanity faced food insecurity. Food waste continues to hurt the global…

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At the midpoint of the 2030 agenda, all of the Sustainable Development Goals are seriously off track. SDG 12, with its third target of substantially reducing global food loss and waste, is no exception in this respect. A…

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Food loss and waste is a pressing global concern with significant environmental, social, and economic implications. Understanding its causes and scale is essential for creating effective strategies to reduce it. Our…

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Food loss and waste is a multifactorial phenomenon. Therefore, at least in the long term, one-dimensional efforts to mitigate it, such as providing storage technologies, will not prove successful, our authors maintain,…

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Lack of management and infrastructure are only two of the reasons why a substantial share of food ends up in the dustbin. Societal norms and acquired behaviour play a crucial role as well. Our authors have taken a look…

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The estimated share of food that goes to waste globally has remained unchanged for years. And yet there are numerous companies which have developed clever solutions to tackle the problem at the various stages of the…

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When seeking reliable cooling solutions to preserve their harvested food, farmers encounter quite a lot of barriers.

The initiative “Your Virtual Cold Chain Assistant” seeks to overcome this. It combines innovative…

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The social business Saving Grains was founded in 2019 in order to improve the livelihoods of small farmers in Africa. Its aim is to establish a fully hermetic grain value chain from the farmer to the food industry.…

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Ethiopia loses between 10 and 22 per cent of grains during storage because a large share of the country’s farmers still use traditional structures. A study by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization based on…

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