SDG Target 12.3 on Food Loss and Waste: 2024 Progress Report is the ninth in an annual series of updates assessing the world’s progress toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 12.3. SDG 12.3 aims to, “by 2030, 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.” Prepared on behalf of Champions 12.3, this publication seeks to inform decision-makers in government, business, academia, and civil society about recent advances and what remaining steps need to be addressed if the world is to achieve the target. Previous progress reports (2016–23) can be found on our Publications page. This progress report contains text from the previous editions in the series, with permission of the authors of those editions. View digital report
Highlights
- Countries and companies need to establish imme- diate and ambitious food loss and waste reduction targets, and those targets need to be represented throughout national climate strategies and communications, such as nationally determined contributions (NDCs). These strategies and commu- nications then need to be translated into meaningful policies and actions.
- Countries and companies need to report food loss and waste figures publicly, identifying key hotspots and considering the climate implications of those hotspots.
- Both governments and companies need to turn their attention to farm-level food loss as well as con- sumer food waste, two underexplored contributions to the global state of food loss and waste.
- Financing organizations and philanthropists need to contribute to the more than $300 million in investments that are ready today to reduce food loss and waste.