Nestlé Joins the SAVE FOOD Initiative

Published: December 31, 2013

CHICAGO, IL | Nestlé has joined the growing number of companies and organizations supporting the SAVE FOOD initiative dedicated to the fight against global food loss and waste. This brings to 100 the number of those working together with SAVE FOOD–a broad-based alliance that covers a large range of the food value chain.

Each year, worldwide, a third of all food is thrown away or lost while some 842 million people are suffering from hunger. In 2011, in order to find solutions for this problem, Messe Düsseldorf and the Food and Agriculture Assn. of the United Nations (FAO) jointly launched the SAVE FOOD Initiative, which has also been supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since the beginning of 2013. By networking with its public partner organizations and members in industry, the initiative aims to identify specific ways of reducing international food loss and waste.

“Reducing food loss and waste is an important part of the journey to be able to feed 9.6 billion people by 2050,” says Dr. Anne Roulin, global R&D sustainability manager, Nestlé. “We are delighted to join the SAVE FOOD Initiative as the complex issue of addressing food loss and waste can only be tackled through a holistic and collaborative approach. Nestlé is firmly committed to further reducing food loss and waste along the entire production chain from farm to consumers and beyond.”

At the upcoming interpack 2014, May 8–14 in Düsseldorf, Germany, a SAVE FOOD Congress on the subject of food loss and waste will be held on May 7 and 8, bringing together experts from industry, the political sphere, and civil society.

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