Think Eat Save - Tracking Progress to Halve Global Food Waste

Disclaimers The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory or city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. [...] As custodian of the Food Waste Index, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) tracks global food waste occurring at the retail, food service and household levels; meanwhile, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is custodian of the Food Loss Index, which tracks food loss occurring along the post-harvest supply chain up to and excluding the retail level (Figure 1. [...] 2 | UNEP | Food Waste Index Report 2024 The scope of the Food Waste Index is Illustrated in Figure 3: Scope of the Food Waste Index (Levels 2 and 3) adapted from the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard. [...] 1.2 How the Food Waste Index is calculated For each sector within a country, the level of food waste is expressed as an index relative to the level of food waste in the baseline year. [...] Food Waste Index Report 2024 | UNEP | 7 2.2 Summary of the methodology The methodology for the calculation of Level 1 estimates in the Food Waste Index Report 2024 follows the five steps taken in the Food Waste Index Report 2021 (Figure 5).