Think.Eat.Save: Reduce Your Foodprint was launched in January 2013 to raise awareness about the need to reduce food waste, as around one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally and this has significant negative financial, environmental and social impact.
This Guidance is a key product of the Think.Eat.Save campaign and the FAO/UNEP Sustainable Food Systems Programme, as well as the SAVE FOOD Initiative. It provides clear and comprehensive steps for governments, businesses and other organisations to develop strategies, programmes and activities to prevent and reduce food and drink waste, and to achieve the associated financial savings and reductions in environmental impacts.
The scope of this Guidance is food waste prevention in the retail, hospitality (restaurants, hotels) and food service (schools, hospitals) supply chains, and household food waste. Waste and loss in the agricultural stages of production are not covered. This Guidance has been developed by using these proven experiences, in order to facilitate knowledge transfer; allowing others to develop and deliver programmes to prevent and reduce food waste more easily and effectively than might otherwise have been the case.