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Our call for scientific articles on national strategies against food loss and waste has been well received internationally. The articles in the special issue of the journal Sustainability are now publicly available.

In cooperation with Italy, the 5th regional workshop in the framework of the Thünen-coordinated MACS-G20 initiative against food waste took place online.

The UN Food Systems Summit on 23 September 2021 is the culmination of an intensive and inclu-sive discussion process on concrete changes to our global food system. Over the past 18 months, there has been a wide range of debates and forums that have united all member countries of the United Nations…

The kick-off meeting of the EU project Trade4SD took place on 15 June. In Trade4SD, the Thünen Institute, together with an international consortium, will develop proposals for a more sustainability-oriented agricultural trade policy.

For the 4th time a regional workshop took place within the framework of the Thünen-coordinated Collaboration Initiative Food Loss and Waste launched at MACS-G20. On October 15th, 2020, Thünen Institute together with the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA) organised an event…

Together with the journal "Sustainability", the Thünen Institute is working on a special issue on the subject of food waste. In terms of content, it is primarily concerned with national strategies for the prevention and monitoring of food waste.

Already for the 3rd time a workshop took place within the framework of the Thünen-coordinated MACS G20 Initiative Food loss and waste. To mark World Food Day on 16 October 2019, the Thünen Institute organised an event for Southeast and East Asia together with the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture,…

The 59th Annual Conference of the German Society of Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture (GEWISOLA) will be held from Wednesday, 25 September to Friday 27 September 2019 at the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig (Germany). The local organizers are the Thünen Institutes of Farm Economics, of…

In the course of the MACS-G20 Collaboration Initiative Food Losses and Wastes coordinated by Thünen Institute, an annual workshop is organised as one among various activities. This year, Thünen Institute arranged a workshop on Food loss and waste (FLW) in cooperation with local partners in Buenos…

In the course of its membership within the ‘Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists of G20 States’ the Thünen Institute took part in this year’s meeting in Argentina. The Institute presented its international cooperation related to food waste prevention and visited two Food Banks.