No Time to Lose (Food)

At the beginning of 2022, eleven professionals from a variety of organisations joined the Young Professionals Program of United Nations (UN) Global Compact Network Netherlands with the aim of delivering an innovative and impactful project around one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This paper responds to SDG 12.3, which aims to halve per capita global food loss along production and supply chains by 2030. The paper provides an assessment of the food value chain in the Netherlands and the current state of knowledge on food loss, taking into account proposals from academia, agricultural entrepreneurs, and market and government representatives. The additional value of this paper lies in the findings and action points for the main stakeholders along the value chain. As such, the study can be used as a starting point to initiate further discussion and action.