SAVE FOOD Initiative unites players from all over the world under the FAO umbrella
Together with more than 150 participants from all over the world, the SAVE FOOD Initiative (save-food.org) discussed their past and future cooperation at its first Partnership Event in Rome on December 10 and 11, 2013. All stakeholders from industry and agriculture, associations, initiatives and NGOs as well as the public sector have thus taken another step in their joint effort against global food losses and waste.
Following the opening address by Daniel Gustafson, Deputy Director General of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), and Bernd Jablonowski, Director interpack & SAVE FOOD of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, the exchange of views between stakeholders from all over the world at the Partnership Event was a valuable contribution towards strengthening the SAVE FOOD network. At the headquarters of FAO, the general consensus in more than 20 presentations and the related panel discussions was that a common approach was most important in solving this problem, which concerns all segments of the food chain equally. Private industry in its capacity as producer, processor and supplier to consumers will have a key role as the driving force in this effort.