Reducing Food Loss and Waste: Dual Impact Actions to Address Climate Change and Improve Nutrition — Final Summary Report

This report synthesizes the findings of a workshop convened to examine food loss and waste (FLW) as a combined climate, nutrition, and economic challenge. Drawing on expertise from seven world regions, including East and South Asia, Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa, the European Union, the Middle East and North Africa, and North and South America, with country case studies spanning Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States , it sets out to generate actionable policy, programmatic, and financing recommendations. Its central aim is to identify interventions that reduce FLW while delivering dual benefits for climate change mitigation and improved nutrition, and to ensure that a global problem is met with locally grounded solutions. The report is intended for policymakers, donors, researchers, public and private-sector actors working toward Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, which calls for halving per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reducing food losses along production and supply chains by 2030.