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Report
Food Loss and Waste in the Pacific: An overview
University of the Sunshine Coast
2024
Abstract
Food loss and waste is a major global challenge. Currently, around 14% of harvestable edible food crops are lost annually (FAO, 2019), with a further 17% attributed to food waste due to retail and household practice (UNEP, 2021). Globally, this equates to 931 million tonnes of food waste, with food loss estimated to be worth $400 Billion annually. With 828 million people affected by hunger (SOFI, 2022), food loss and waste undermine food security SDG outcomes, contributes to greenhouse emissions1, and adversely impacts natural resources (FAO, 2013). While there has been increasing global awareness and effort to tacking food loss and waste (Facchini, et al., 2023; Mmereki, et al., 2024; O'Connor et al., 2023; Wang et al., 2021), little is known about the status of food loss and waste in the Pacific region.
This FAO funded report provides an overview of food loss and waste in the Pacific. The report presents findings from a desk-top study of open-access Pacific food loss and waste literature and Pacific stakeholder consultation. A series of proposed targeted interventions based on the report findings are further presented.
This report was commissioned by FAO as part of their implementation of a European Union (EU) funded Project “Sustainable transformation of domestic agrifood systems in Fiji, Samoa, and Solomon Islands (STODAS)”, which is being undertaken in partnership with Fiji, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Solomon Islands, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa.
Details
- Title
- Food Loss and Waste in the Pacific: An overview
- Authors
- Steven Underhill (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australian Centre for Pacific Islands ResearchSarah Burkhart (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Nutrition & Dietetics
- Publication details
- 29 pages
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2024
- Grants
- Nutrition and food security in the Pacific Islands, 0980028813, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy, Rome) - FAO
- Grant note
- Research findings outlined in this report were funded by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
- Organisation Unit
- Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; School of Health - Nutrition & Dietetics; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991100746302621
- Output Type
- Report
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