By 2050, reduced food loss and waste could free up several million square kilometres of land.

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Better education can also reduce food loss.

Some residents alleged that their food loss could amount to R2 000 or more.

Definitions of food loss and waste also vary widely, making comparisons hard, according to a document on the new standard.

We must slash food loss and waste, a major source of emissions and a travesty for people who lack enough food.

Reducing food loss and waste (FLW) is widely recognized as an important lever for lowering the environmental impacts of food systems.

Today, that new forum-calledthe G20 Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste-goeslive.

Polar bears are unable to adapt their behaviour to cope with the food losses associated with warmer summers in the Arctic.

Those call for food waste to be cut in half by 2030, and for food losses to be reduced by that date.

Food producers, retail chains and campaign groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council have also vowed to reduce food loss in the ReFED initiative.