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Food Waste Index Report 2024. Think Eat Save:
Tracking Progress to Halve Global Food Waste
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To galvanize the necessary action on food waste reduction to achieve
SDG 12.3, it is crucial to understand how much food waste there is.
Measuring food waste enables countries to understand the scale of
the problem – and therefore, the size of the opportunity – while
providing a baseline against which progress can be measured. The
Food Waste Index Report 2021 was an important moment in the
understanding of food waste at the retail, food service and household
sectors globally. It demonstrated higher global availability of food
waste data than expected, particularly at the household level, and that
per capita household food waste generation was more comparable
across the world than was previously understood. This Food Waste
Index Report 2024 builds on the 2021 report in three ways: 1) New
data has been used to develop a new estimate of global food waste.
This is covered in chapter 2 of the main report. 2) This report builds on
the SDG 12.3 food waste measurement methodology published in the
Date Food Waste Index Report 2021, providing more detailed guidance on
2024-03 measurement at the retail, food service and household sectors. The
additional guidance explores different methodologies, their strengths
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and limitations and how to effectively prioritize subsectors for
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measurement. This is covered in chapter 3. 3) The report starts to
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move from food waste measurement to food waste reduction. The
“Solutions Focus” chapter explores effective approaches to food
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