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23.05.2012
Convenience foods are growing in popularity, and the food they contain is usually protected by films based on petrochemicals. Now researchers of the renowned Fraunhofer Institute have not only developed a biomaterial from whey protein, they have also come up with a commercially viable method of producing multifunctional films on an industrial scale. more...
21.05.2012
It is expected that in India almost every second child will soon suffer from malnutrition, even though India can produce enough food for its 1.2 billion inhabitants. In the most populous country in the world there is a huge lack of sufficient packaging, storing and transport capacities. Thus, large amounts of often spoil in the fields. Studies on the exact amount of food losses are not available at the moment. more...
02.05.2012
From 7 to 9 May 2012 the Food Packaging Technologies Summit will be held in Chicago – a professional event for the food packaging industry. Also featured here will be the SAVE FOOD Initiative presenting its commitment to more food safety and food supply safety. more...
27.04.2012
When it comes to food wastage in the restaurant and catering trade, the consumers in the threshold countries apparently have a greater awareness of this problem than those in Europe. This is revealed by a study conducted by the Unilever consumer goods group published in March 2012. more...
26.04.2012
In the view of Petra Teitscheid (University of Applied Sciences Münster, germany) the mantra of diversity, fresh look and constant availability of food is a major cause of food waste. more...
23.04.2012
In Great Britain the non-governmental organization WRAP (Waste Resources Action Programme) is actively committed to a successful nationwide recycling and waste avoidance campaign. Here, cooperation with the local authorities plays a key role – even if the aim is the avoidance of food waste. more...
20.04.2012
Up to now there has been insufficient specific data on food wastage in Europe both on a national as well as international level. Although the players in the food sector have many good approaches and concepts for increased sustainability, they hardly come together to form networks. The FUSIONS project is now set to change this. more...
16.04.2012
With its current programme aimed at greater resources efficiency, the EU Commission is focusing on new areas: foodstuffs are to be more effectively protected against wastage as “natural resources”. The agricultural sector is to operate on a more sustainability-orientated basis and all the players in the food chain should form a network for greater resource efficiency. more...
12.04.2012
The FAO study FAO, which was presented at last year’s SAVE FOOD congress showed, that one third of all food produced worldwide is lost or wasted. The study currently presented by Germany’s Federal Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner (CSU) also revealed that there is a great need for action. more...
31.03.2012
Food security and the global supply of water are two sides of the same coin – and this is the recurring theme of the 6th World Water Forum. Food security for all will only be possible if limited water resources are sparingly used in optimized agricultural processes worldwide. more...
27.03.2012
Following the invitation of Germany’s Federal Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner, experts and representatives from trade and industry as well as producer and consumer organizations discussed about strategies to curb the waste of food. more...
22.03.2012
There still is a dearth of reliable figures concerning the amounts and the reasons behind the waste of food in rich nations and developing countries alike. The SAVE FOOD initiative, put itself the target of establishing a basis for measures against world-wide food losses. more...
13.03.2012
A current study shows: Food retail is only responsible for a small part of food waste in Germany. Appropriate packaging is the key to success here. more...
15.03.2012
On Tuesday, Federal Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has presented a recent study on food waste in Germany. The study conducted by the University of Stuttgart concludes that industry, trade, wholesale and private households dispose of annually 11 million tons of food as waste. more...
SAVE FOOD exhibitionUntil mid-May packaging specialists MULTIVAC will be presenting the SAVE FOOD Initiative’s Exhibition on the problem of global food waste. This pays off for the company in two ways: It illustrates MULTIVAC’s corporate social responsibility efforts, on the one hand, and offers customers and guests an attractive information area, on the other. more...
Meghan StaszInnovative, nachhaltige Verpackungen werden als neues Werkzeug im Kampf gegen Lebensitelverschwendung betrachtet. Anne Marie Mohan, Redakteurin von Greener Package beleuchtet im Interview mit Meghan Stasz von der Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) die Aspekte hinter dieser Produkt-Verpackungs-Beziehung. more...
10.02.2012
It is estimated that up to 50% of the healthy and edible food along the entire food supply chain is wasted and ends up in the trash every year. The amount of food waste that accumulates each year in the 27 EU Member States is estimated at around 89 million tonnes. This is equivalent to 179 kg per EU citizen. more...
03.02.2012
On the 3rd Bonn Conference on International Development, international experts discussed global lifestyles and their impact on developing and emerging countries. 850 guests from home and abroad participated the meeting that was hold from 30th to 31st January 2012. It was organized by the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia in cooperation with the City of Bonn and other partners meeting. more...
09.01.2012
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on January 4th that the new FAO Director-General Graziano da Silva announced focusing on reaching the first Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations and therefore on reducing the number of undernourished people by half until 2015. more...
05.12.2011
On the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference on water, energy and food security the delegates formulated specific recommendations for a sustainable development. In that context, the initiative SAVE FOOD was named a role model. more...
01.12.2011
The SAVE FOOD know-how and approach match perfectly the integrated approach of the newest initiative on sustainable development organized by the German Federal Government: the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference on water, energy and food security that took place mid November in Bonn. more...
01.12.2011
The German government together with its leading development agency the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit” (GIZ) put SAVE FOOD in the spotlight at their first international Bonn2011 Nexus Conference. The conference is an important contribution to the Rio+20-summit in 2012, according to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The bottom line: in a transformative process towards a green economy, a focus on the issue of food waste and losses is a requisite. more...
17.10.2011
SAVE FOOD will be informing companies, NGOs and private individuals, networking stakeholders and promoting concrete international projects with the support of the industry. more...
11.10.2011
Fighting food losses can be an effective contribution to relieve the situation of low-income regions in the context of high food prices. Therefore the FAO invited the SAVE FOOD initiative to hold a seminar taking place in Rome on October 21 during the celebrations of the World Food Day. Experts from international organisations and research institutions will listen to the input of three SAVE FOOD speakers. more...
08.12.2011
The German Sustainability Day is the leading national congress for sustainable development economic themes and combines a top level congress and exhibition with the award ceremony of the German Sustainability Award for corporate excellence. more...
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