Can a global reporting framework help tackle food waste?

Michael Holder
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First ever global Food Waste and Loss Standard aims to harmonise measuring and reporting of private sector food waste

If food waste was a country, it would be the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet behind the US and China, generating around eight per cent of total global emissions, according to the World...

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