Moving towards a circular global food system, is essential to mitigate the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss, and pollution, while also improving food security.
The objective of this area of work is to scale up the adoption of circularity policies and practices in high impact value chains, particularly at the retail and food service stages, to optimise resource use, halve food loss and waste in line with SDG 12.3, and minimise pollution, biodiversity loss, and greenhouse gas emissions, while also achieving positive social and economic outcomes.
Shifting to a circular global food system requires coordinated action by all value chain actors, including producers, transporters, retailers, food service providers, and consumers (including governments, businesses and individuals).
Although challenging to achieve structural change on the required scale, the benefits are clear: estimates show that a circular economy for food could reduce global food sector emissions by 49% in 2050, decrease the health costs related to the current system, and generate annual benefits worth $2.7 trillion by 2050.
Our work on Food systems cuts across a number of initiatives, MEAs, partnerships and other key entities.
