Save Food Cities
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Urbanization, higher incomes and lifestyle changes continue to raise demand for locally sourced fresh foods, but maintaining their quality along the supply chain is a major challenge. In low-income countries, inadequate harvesting, handling, logistics, technology and cooling are causing persistent post-harvest losses. Also, as more countries reach middle-income status, food waste increases, particularly in urban areas, and disposal in landfill results in methane emission. A lack of coordination, financial and human resources, as well as the capacity for disposing of and recycling food waste and packaging, is causing alarming levels of fresh-water contamination. Investment in food loss and waste reduction can deliver monetary and other benefits. This programme will support a sustainable and circular bioeconomy, where waste streams from agriculture, forestry, fisheries and the food and feed industry are integrated into the circular economy. A key focus will be innovation to ensure safe and nutritious food supply chains, the revalorization of food by-products and the management of packaging and non-edible food parts.