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Today, several of the world’s largest farm-gate-facing agriculture companies and important national agriculture companies – including Olam Agri, ITC Limited, Sereni Fries Ltd, Kinazi Cassava Plant (KCP), Spice World Ltd, ETG and Premier Foods Ltd (PFL) – announced a joint commitment to help the farmers in their supply chains reduce on-farm food losses by 50% by 2030.

Creator and CEO of Fight Food Waste Ltd (FFWL), Dr Steven Lapidge, has been invited to join the eminent Champions 12.3 Coalition, the first leader from Australasia.

Today, the United Nations General Assembly convenes the 2023 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Summit, marking the halfway point to the deadline set for achieving the SDGs by 2030. The Summit will serve as a reality check and reset for global ambition on sustainable development.

Timed with COP27, the new ‘123 Pledge’ kicked off to accelerate action to reduce food loss and waste worldwide. The Pledge challenges governments, businesses, chefs and other important actors in the food system to commit to concrete steps that will make reducing food loss and waste a part of their action agendas on greenhouse gas emissions.

Despite Momentum, Report Finds Many Lag Behind and More Action Needed on Food Losses

Champions 12.3 announced it will host a new ‘Assembly’ to convene national governments and businesses to dramatically expand global action toward halving food loss and waste by 2030.

A group of the world’s largest food retailers and providers announced that nearly 200 of their major suppliers have committed to root out food loss and waste from the supply chain. The 10+ food retailers and providers lead the groundbreaking “10x20x30” initiative, with each having engaged at least 20 suppliers to halve food loss and waste by 2030.

Leaders from across the food system today gathered in New York to announce landmark developments toward halving food loss and waste by 2030, in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 12.3 to “halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.”

Several of the world’s largest food retailers and providers have signed on to a new initiative to engage their supply chains in the fight against food loss and waste. Called “10x20x30,” the initiative brings together 10 of the world’s biggest food retailers and providers to each engage with 20 of their priority suppliers to aim to halve rates of food loss and waste by 2030.

New research on behalf of Champions 12.3 finds there is a compelling business case for restaurants to reduce the amount of food they throw away. For every $1 restaurants invested in programs to reduce kitchen food waste, on average they saved $7 in operating costs.

At the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, countries committed to Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3, calling for the world to cut food loss and waste in half by 2030. Now three years on, a group of sustainable food champions from around the world are tracking progress toward this fast-approaching target – and finding that the private sector has seized the opportunity to tackle food loss and waste.

New research on behalf of Champions 12.3 finds there is a compelling business case for food service operators serving hospitals, schools, sports arenas and other facilities to reduce food waste. The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste: Catering shows that for every $1 caterers invested in programs to curb food waste, they saved more than $6 in operating costs.

New research on behalf of Champions 12.3 finds there is a compelling business case for hotels to reduce the amount of food they throw away.  For every $1 hotels invested in programs to reduce kitchen food waste, on average they saved $7 in operating costs.

The Netherlands is aiming to be one of the first countries in the world to cut food waste in half, and now the country has a new national program, United Against Food Waste, to put it on a path to success. The initiative was announced Tuesday by the Taskforce Circular Economy in Food, a group made up of companies, research institutes, civil society organizations and the government.

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) – a network of 400 of the biggest consumer goods companies across 70 countries – along with Champions 12.3 has approved a Call to Action to standardize food date labels worldwide by 2020.