The FAO and his partners ask a greater effort to reduce the losses and the waste of foods

Founded in 2011, Save Food -a world-wide initiative on the reduction of the losses and the waste of foods-, has like aim reduce the roughly 1.300 million tonnes of foods that lose or waste every year. The annual losses value in near of one trillion dollars.

The campaign Save Food has in the actuality more than 50 partners. The FAO, together with the Messe Düsseldorf, that organises commercial fairs, and the Interpack, a fair of containers and processed, have invited to new partners of the private sector, as well as non-profit organisations that participate in the chain of supply of foods, to join to the effort and contribute with his experience. The new technologies, better practical, the coordination, and the investments in infrastructure, –from the production of foods until the consumption– are fundamental for the reduction of the losses and the waste of foods.