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Werner M. Dornscheidt, Messe Düsseldorf
17.05.2013
In 2011 the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO and Messe Düsseldorf launched their joint SAVE FOOD initiative. Now they have enshrined their cooperation in a Memorandum of Understanding. Messe Düsseldorf GmbH President and CEO Werner M. Dornscheidt explains the reasons.
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FAO and Messe Düsseldorf GmbH Werner M. Dornscheidt (l.) and Daniel J. Gustafson (r.)
13.05.2013
The two organisations commit to support SAVE FOOD, The Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction.
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Quelle: Maersk
10.05.2013
Maersk Container Industry (MCI) and the Chilean fruit exporters’ association (ASOEX) will cooperate to cut food waste: The input and feedback by ASOEX will help MCI to improve its refeers, so that more fruits make it from farm to fork.
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Source: MCI
10.05.2013
Maersk Container Industry (MCI) and the Chilean fruit exporters’ association (ASOEX) will cooperate to cut food waste: The input and feedback by ASOEX will help MCI to improve its refeers, so that more fruits make it from farm to fork.
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Colourbox
31.03.2013
Even small quantities of food waste can add up to substantial losses of food – for example leftover sauce. This issue has recently been highlighted by a British initiative. And we'd like to show you how packaging can help towards a solution.
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27.03.2013
The Alliance Against Hunger and Malnutrition, the global partnership for eradication of hunger and malnutrition, is covering food losses and waste as one mechanism of reducing hunger and malnutrition. The April edition will feature the recent partnership between SAVE FOOD and the Global FoodBanking Network, member of the US Alliance to end hunger.
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27.03.2013
SAVE FOOD co-founder Messe Düsseldorf reports on a German food waste initiative helping distribute surplus food. Users can specify on foodsharing.de what kind of food they have, in what quantities, and where it can be collected, and interested parties may arrange to pick it up for free.
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27.03.2013
Thousands of smallholder farmers with farms under ten acres supply over 70 percent of the nearly 250 000 metric tonnes of fruits and vegetables exported from Kenya every year, but more than 50 percent of their produce often never reaches where it was intended in the first place: the dining table.
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27.03.2013
One of Africa’s food waste hotspots is the Dandora rubbish dump on the outskirts of Nairobi. The presence of pigs, marabou storks, dogs and other animals - as well as human scavengers - indicates there is plenty to eat.
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27.03.2013
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is supporting the global Save Food Initiative with a Communications and Partnerships consultant. The post is part of NRC’s Nordic Capacity Programme (NORCAP), which strengthens the international organisations through rapid deployment of professional and experienced personnel.
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27.03.2013
The EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council have decided to phase out discards by the European fishing industry over the next four years. It is estimated that anything from 8 percent (up to 98 percent for some species) – 1.3 million tonnes – of European fish is thrown dead back into the sea. (EC impact assessment, 2011).
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Colourbox
28.02.2013
The security of the worldwide food supply was also on the political agenda of the Green Week in Berlin in early 2013. One way to approach the issue is through a transfer of agricultural and food technology to improve the food situation in developing countries.
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foodsharing.de
27.02.2013
An online portal called foodsharing.de was launched in December, encouraging German consumers not to throw away surplus food but to share it with others.
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Philipp1101, photocase.com
26.02.2013
The Russian Statistical Office Gosstat recently submitted its first official figures on food waste in Russia. According to Gosstat, 56 kg of food is thrown away per person per year in the Russian Federation.
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iStockphoto
28.02.2013
The SAVE FOOD initiative and key stakeholders in Kenya have joined efforts to reduce food losses and improve food security in the country by examining critical points along the food supply chain where losses occur. The study will evaluate the magnitude of food losses, the main causes, and the cost- effectiveness of food loss prevention measures specific to four food supply chains (bananas, dairy, fish, and maize).
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Think, Eat, Save - Reduce your Foodprint
22.01.2013
Simple actions by consumers and food retailers can dramatically cut the 1.3 billion tonnes of food lost or wasted each year and help shape a sustainable future, according to a new global campaign to cut food waste launched today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and partners.
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14.01.2013
Experts agree: Russia will play a decisive role in world food security – especially due to its large land reserves. There is also greater awareness in Russian society about the issue of food waste.
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11.01.2013
At the last session of the FAO council in December the Food and Agriculture Organisation discussed the issues of food losses and food waste. One approach: food waste can be a valuable resource.
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anid / photocase.com
12.01.2013
The path of foodstuffs from the field to end-consumer retail is particularly non-transparent in China and features a whole host of intermediaries. This leads to food waste. A project led by German companies sets out to change this.
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suze / photocase.com
10.01.2013
One of the main reasons for food losses affecting milk and dairy products are an inefficient cold chain or lack of refrigeration possibilities during production and transport. Modern refrigeration technology not only protects the foodstuff milk – but today also operates in an energy and resource-saving manner.
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EU-Projekt FUSIONS
09.01.2013
The EU project FUSIONS that combats food waste in Europe now also networks its member organisations from EU states via Facebook.
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Logo Food Processing & Packaging Exposyum
08.01.2013
Vom 26. bis 28. November 2013 findet im Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi erstmals das Food Processing & Packaging Exposyum (FPPE) statt, was durch den Veranstalter StarlingExpo in Kooperation mit der Messe Düsseldorf realisiert wird. Es ist das erste Mitglied der internationalen Verpackungsfamilie der interpack in Afrika. Der Beirat der internationalen Leitmesse der Verpackungsbranche und der verwandten Prozessindustrie hatte das Engagement in Afrika empfohlen.
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10.12.2012
Within the framework of its SAVE FOOD Initiative, Messe Düsseldorf is supporting an Environment Programme (UNEP) project initiated by the United Nations in Kenya. The symbolic cheque was presented by Werner M. Dornscheidt, President and CEO Messe Düsseldorf, to the head of UNEP, Achim Steiner, during the official event to mark the German Sustainability Award.
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10.12.2012
Since 2011 Messe Düsseldorf and the world Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have been providing information about global food loss through their SAVE FOOD Initiative – also in the form of an interactive travelling exhibition. This exhibition will be going on an international tour in 2013.
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photocase.com / froodmat
09.12.2012
The SAVE FOOD Initiative is examining which critical points exist along the Kenyan foodstuffs chain – and where food loss can be avoided. Similar studies are planned for seven other African and Asian nations.
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08.12.2012
The world Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is now also presenting themes and study results from the SAVE FOOD Initiative online.
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Foto: Christian Lietzmann
07.12.2012
The Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Achim Steiner, was presented with the honorary award of the German Sustainability Award Foundation on 7 December in Düsseldorf.
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Flügelwesen/ photocase.com
18.11.2012
“We look for the sources of wasted food, we save food from being dumped in dustbins and we distribute it to the needy,” says Joseph Gitler, founder of the Israeli NGO Leket, when asked to describe the work of his organisation.
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Philipp1101 / photocase.com
17.11.2012
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that the food supply will need to go up 70 per cent by 2050. According to an international research project, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan have plenty of potential for an increase in food production.
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photocase.com / Sirname
15.11.2012
Post-harvest losses of cereal are enormous in Africa. It is possible to reduce such losses – but only if the relevant decision-makers are well informed. This is precisely the purpose of an EU project called APHLIS.
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13.11.2012
The future of our civilization is facing severe challenges. Not only climate change, but the rising issues with growing demand for the world’s resources such as food, water, and energy. The pre-Rio+20 UN report “Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing” states that in just 20 years, Earth's population will need at least 50% more food, 45% more energy and 30% more water. Already by 2030, we will need 2 planets to sustain our consumption.
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19.10.2012
The German Bundestag calls on the government to develop means and measures to halve the amount of edible food wasted until 2020. Every year eleven million tons of food end up in the garbage.
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13.10.2012
On their forum on October 9th 2012 in Brussels, the retailer sector again expressed their conviction that the transition to a resource efficient economy in spite of the difficult economic situation had to be successful.
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thoffmann / Photocase.com
08.10.2012
Plastics made of renewable raw materials are being used increasingly for food packaging. The cultivation of the plant materials used does not necessarily conflict with food production.
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caroelchen / Photocase.com
01.10.2012
According to researchers' estimates, around half of the food waste in the German food service industry could be prevented. The goal now is to significantly reduce this food waste, which currently amounts to almost one million tons annually.
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shootinga. / Fotolia.com
30.09.2012
Stop food waste by informing consumers – this is to be the emphasis of the work of the EU project FUSIONS, launched last August. Among the topics are "intelligent packaging” as well as regional marketing.
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dipego / Fotolia.com
28.09.2012
Food packaging plays a central role in the global approach to reduce food waste, mainly in developing countries and emerging markets. Dr. Claudia Schönweitz, Acting Manager of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (IVV), is convinced of this.
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06.09.2012
Learning more about the effects of packaging on packaged product to improve packaging technical and functional features in order to make packaging more effective in terms of protecting and preserving the product. ilip has initiated a joint project with the University of Bologna that includes a series of studies on the role played by packaging in the preservation of fresh produce and on comparisons between different types of packaging, produced by ILIP as well as by its competitors.
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boing / photocase.com
10.09.2012
The slogan “Don’t gamble with food!” unites German NGOs in their commitment to fight food speculation - and in October they intend to hand over the signatures collected for this petition to the German Federal Minister of Finance.
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lama-photography / photocase.com
07.09.2012
With its “Trees for Food Security” project, the Australian government provides millions to sponsor an innovative agricultural programme for Rwanda. The approach: planting the right tree species at the edges of fields and on arable land may significantly increase the fertility of agricultural soils in Africa.
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04.09.2012
Recyclebare Verpackungslösungen sind doppelt wirkungsvoll. Sie schonen zum einen die natürlichen Ressourcen, zum anderen schützen sie nachhaltig Lebensmittel. Wie das funktionieren kann, zeigt ein französischer Anbieter von Frischeprodukten. Beim Verpacken seines Pasta-Snacks für die Mikrowelle setzt er auf nachwachsende Rohstoffe.
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31.08.2012
One of the reasons for the price increase is the drought in the United States. As a result of numerous droughts food prices are rising on a global scale. Only in July, food prices increased by ten percent, the World Bank announced. The price of wheat and corn increased from June to July by 25 percent each, soybeans by 17 percent. In some countries, prices had shot particularly strong in the air: In Mozambique, the price of corn has risen by 113 percent within a month. "In the meantime, the Sahel Zone and East Africa experience steep price increases for millet: 220 percent and 180 percent in South Sudan in Sudan, for example," says the World Bank. Only the rice prices went down by four percent.
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30.08.2012
According to a study of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the USA is wasting 40 % of its food. The Council says more than 20 pounds of food is wasted each month for each of 311 million Americans, amounting to $1,350 to $2,275 annually in waste for a family of four.
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21.08.2012
In August the German federal government organised its annual open day under the heading “An Invitation to a State Visit". The Food Ministry presented its campaign “Too good for the bin”.
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20.08.2012
Since June the U.S. is confronted with a heat wave and temperatures of around 40 degrees. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that only a quarter of the plants are in a good condition. The historic drought in the U.S. and also in India causes massive crop failures. Already now, the world market prices of wheat, corn and soybeans are increasing, placing harsh burdens on the people of poor countries. A global food crisis looms. The G20 want to counteract, but for the poorest of the world it might be too late.
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Ian13/Wikimedia (cc by-sa 3.0)
08.08.2012
A study from Great Britain shows clearly that packaging plays a major part in the reduction of food waste on the consumer side. In many areas, retailers have already adapted their offer ranges.
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vandalay / photocase.com
07.08.2012
In connection with the British environmental initiative WRAP, nearly 70 food sector companies have committed themselves to reducing their food and food packaging waste. By 2015, McDonald’s, Domino’s Pizza, Unilever and other food sector giants are planning to reduce their waste volume by 5 percent.
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03.08.2012
The future of our civilization is facing severe challenges. Not only the increasing climate change, but the rising issues with growing demand for the world’s resources such as food, water and energy. In just 20 years, Earth's population needs at least 50% more food, 45% more energy and 30% more water. Already in 2030, we need 2 planets to produce resources for the world's consumers.
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thoffmann / photocase.com
02.08.2012
Plastic products can make an important contribution to fighting water scarcity, believes the PlasticsEurope association – that wants to work towards corresponding solutions with the EU Commission.
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IS2 / photocase.com
01.08.2012
With its “Food Recovery Challenge” the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been actively fighting food waste and avoidable food losses for years. In the meantime the EPA has succeeded in involving more and more education institutes in the programme. And these benefit from participation enormously.
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photocase.com / SirName
26.07.2012
The loss of grocery in African countries like Nigeria is stoppable – improved logistic and packaging of food offers great potential.
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Marc Zander, XCOM Africa
26.07.2012
Even small steps toward food loss reduction can have an immense impact on African states, according to Marc Zander of XCOM Africa. His firm provides business consulting to companies that are interested in doing business in Africa. Western knowledge is especially valuable in the fight against food loss, states Zander.
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24.07.2012
Southeast Asia as a region suffers from a lack of information on food wastage along supply chains in key food commodities. In order to address the issue, developing accurate and relevant information on the scope and causes of food wastage is essential. With demand for food growing, and competition for scarce land and water resources intensifying, it is clear that actions need to be taken to address the magnitude of food wasted.
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16.07.2012
One third of the food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted every year. In Europe alone, this amounts to 180 kg per capita. In addition to the vast societal implications, such levels of food waste are becoming huge environmental and economic problems. Causes for food waste are shared among all actors of the food supply chain. Yet, awareness remains low and no substantial solutions have been proposed.
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Ulrike Rodust, MdEP
09.07.2012
Ulrike Rodust, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), explains in an interview with SAVE FOOD what is being done to combat food waste at European level. Raising greater awareness about the subject and promoting better packaging are important first steps in Rodust’s view.
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04.07.2012
The German agricultural and food industries focus on exports. Now they are expected to help improve food safety worldwide with their know-how. German politicians are supporting this approach.
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Ian13/Wikimedia (cc by-sa 3.0)
02.07.2012
It is not only possible for consumers to help to reduce food losses; they can also save money in the process. This is the compelling argument of the “Love Food Hate Waste” campaign in Northern Ireland – and one that is obviously proving successful.
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picture: Federal Government/Steins
27.06.2012
At the meeting of the Council for Sustainable Development in Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel called for greater responsibility. In her speech she called
the fight against food losses as one of
the outstanding tasks of the future that are to be brought forward
in the
context of the European
debate on sustainable growth.
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27.06.2012
By launching a joint initiative of all parliamentary groups in the German lower chamber (Bundestag) Parliamentarians want to minimise food waste in Germany. Now the Head of the Committee for Nutrition of the German Bundestag, Hans-Michael Goldmann, has tabled a package of measures.
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17.06.2012
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and key partners are calling on companies and organizations worldwide to join in the SAVE FOOD initiative, a global effort designed to cut down on food losses and waste.
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k-sus / photocase.com
13.06.2012
US plastics group DuPont has made a statement with this year’s DuPont Award for packaging innovations: ranking first was a fresh-meat packaging unit designed to minimise food waste.
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careaux mit o. / photocase.com
12.06.2012
From the United Nations to the European Parliament, global water consumption is in the focus of many international initiatives. If the food supply is supposed to be secured despite the growing global population, agriculture must reduce its water consumption, as well.
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froodmat / photocase.com
06.06.2012
The Food and Agricultural Organisation FAO intends to reduce avoidable food losses in the Near East by 50% over the next 10 years. It is especially important to avoid food waste in this region – but there is a long way to go.
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BVE/HDE
06.06.2012
The leading German retailers’ and food producers’ associations began their “Dialogue Food” event in late May. The aim of their discussions was to create heightened appreciation of food in Germany thereby preventing food waste.
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31.05.2012
XCOM Africa GmbH is a new supporting member of the SAVE FOOD initiative and as a result is backing the fight against worldwide food waste. The focal point of cooperation is the African continent.
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23.05.2012
Convenience foods are growing in popularity, and the food they contain is usually protected by films based on petrochemicals. Now researchers of the renowned Fraunhofer Institute have not only developed a biomaterial from whey protein, they have also come up with a commercially viable method of producing multifunctional films on an industrial scale.
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21.05.2012
It is expected that in India almost every second child will soon suffer from malnutrition, even though India can produce enough food for its 1.2 billion inhabitants. In the most populous country in the world there is a huge lack of sufficient packaging, storing and transport capacities. Thus, large amounts of often spoil in the fields. Studies on the exact amount of food losses are not available at the moment.
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02.05.2012
From 7 to 9 May 2012 the Food Packaging Technologies Summit will be held in Chicago – a professional event for the food packaging industry. Also featured here will be the SAVE FOOD Initiative presenting its commitment to more food safety and food supply safety.
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27.04.2012
When it comes to food wastage in the restaurant and catering trade, the consumers in the threshold countries apparently have a greater awareness of this problem than those in Europe. This is revealed by a study conducted by the Unilever consumer goods group published in March 2012.
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26.04.2012
In the view of Petra Teitscheid (University of Applied Sciences Münster, germany) the mantra of diversity, fresh
look and constant availability of food is a major cause of food waste.
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23.04.2012
In Great Britain the non-governmental organization WRAP (Waste Resources Action Programme) is actively committed to a successful nationwide recycling and waste avoidance campaign. Here, cooperation with the local authorities plays a key role – even if the aim is the avoidance of food waste.
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20.04.2012
Up to now there has been insufficient specific data on food wastage in Europe both on a national as well as international level. Although the players in the food sector have many good approaches and concepts for increased sustainability, they hardly come together to form networks. The FUSIONS project is now set to change this.
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16.04.2012
With its current programme aimed at greater resources efficiency, the EU Commission is focusing on new areas: foodstuffs are to be more effectively protected against wastage as “natural resources”. The agricultural sector is to operate on a more sustainability-orientated basis and all the players in the food chain should form a network for greater resource efficiency.
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12.04.2012
The FAO study FAO, which was presented at last year’s SAVE FOOD congress showed, that one third of all food produced worldwide is lost or wasted. The study currently presented by Germany’s Federal Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner (CSU) also revealed that there is a great need for action.
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31.03.2012
Food security and the global supply of water are two sides of the same coin – and this is the recurring theme of the 6th World Water Forum. Food security for all will only be possible if limited water resources are sparingly used in optimized agricultural processes worldwide.
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27.03.2012
Following the invitation of Germany’s Federal Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner, experts and representatives from trade and industry as well as producer and consumer organizations discussed about strategies to curb the waste of food.
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22.03.2012
There still is a dearth of reliable figures concerning the amounts and the reasons behind the waste of food in rich nations and developing countries alike. The SAVE FOOD initiative, put itself the target of establishing a basis for measures against world-wide food losses.
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13.03.2012
A current study shows: Food retail is only responsible for a small part of food waste in Germany. Appropriate packaging is the key to success here.
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15.03.2012
On Tuesday, Federal Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has presented a recent study on food waste in Germany. The study conducted by the University of Stuttgart concludes that industry, trade, wholesale and private households dispose of annually 11 million tons of food as waste.
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SAVE FOOD exhibition
19.02.2012
Until mid-May packaging specialists MULTIVAC will be presenting the SAVE FOOD Initiative’s Exhibition on the problem of global food waste. This pays off for the company in two ways: It illustrates MULTIVAC’s corporate social responsibility efforts, on the one hand, and offers customers and guests an attractive information area, on the other.
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Meghan Stasz
16.02.2012
Innovative, nachhaltige Verpackungen werden als neues Werkzeug im Kampf gegen Lebensitelverschwendung betrachtet. Anne Marie Mohan, Redakteurin von Greener Package beleuchtet im Interview mit Meghan Stasz von der Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) die Aspekte hinter dieser Produkt-Verpackungs-Beziehung.
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10.02.2012
It is estimated that up to 50% of the healthy and edible food along the entire food supply chain is wasted and ends up in the trash every year. The amount of food waste that accumulates each year in the 27 EU Member States is estimated at around 89 million tonnes. This is equivalent to 179 kg per EU citizen.
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03.02.2012
On the 3rd Bonn Conference on International Development, international experts discussed global lifestyles and their impact on developing and emerging countries.
850 guests from home and abroad participated the meeting that was hold from 30th to 31st January 2012. It was organized by the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia in cooperation with the City of Bonn and other partners meeting.
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09.01.2012
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on January 4th that the new FAO Director-General Graziano da Silva announced focusing on reaching the first Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations and therefore on reducing the number of undernourished people by half until 2015.
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05.12.2011
On the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference on water, energy and food security the delegates formulated specific recommendations for a sustainable development. In that context, the initiative SAVE FOOD was named a role model.
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01.12.2011
The SAVE FOOD know-how and approach match perfectly the integrated approach of the newest initiative on sustainable development organized by the German Federal Government: the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference on water, energy and food security that took place mid November in Bonn.
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01.12.2011
The German government together with its leading development agency the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit” (GIZ) put SAVE FOOD in the spotlight at their first international Bonn2011 Nexus Conference. The conference is an important contribution to the Rio+20-summit in 2012, according to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The bottom line: in a transformative process towards a green economy, a focus on the issue of food waste and losses is a requisite.
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17.10.2011
SAVE FOOD will be informing companies, NGOs and private individuals, networking stakeholders and promoting concrete international projects with the support of the industry.
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11.10.2011
Fighting food losses can be an effective contribution to relieve the situation of low-income regions in the context of high food prices. Therefore the FAO invited the SAVE FOOD initiative to hold a seminar taking place in Rome on October 21 during the celebrations of the World Food Day. Experts from international organisations and research institutions will listen to the input of three SAVE FOOD speakers.
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08.12.2011
The German Sustainability Day is the leading national congress for sustainable development economic themes and combines a top level congress and exhibition with the award ceremony of the German Sustainability Award for corporate excellence.
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