A growing number of companies and organizations are supporting the SAVE FOOD Initiative (save-food.org) dedicated to the fight against global food loss and waste. NESTLE®, the world’s largest food company, has recently joined this initiative, bringing the number to one hundred industrial companies, associations and media working together with SAVE FOOD – a broad-based alliance that covers a large range of the food value chain.
Each year, worldwide, a third of all food is thrown away or lost while some 842 million people are suffering from hunger. In 2011, in order to find solutions for this problem, Messe Düsseldorf (mdna.com) and the Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations (FAO) jointly launched the SAVE FOOD Initiative, which has also been supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since the beginning of 2013. By networking with its public partner organizations and members in industry, the initiative aims to identify specific ways of reducing international food loss and waste.