Food Loss & Waste Protocol

Update: The FLW Protocol website is now live at http://www.flwprotocol.org.

The Food Loss & Waste Protocol (FLW Protocol) is a multi-stakeholder effort that has developed the global accounting and reporting standard (known as the FLW Standard) for quantifying food and associated inedible parts removed from the food supply chain (referred to for simplicity sake as ‘food loss and waste’). The FLW Standard enables a wide range of entities - countries, companies and other organizations - to account for and report in a credible, practical and internationally consistent manner how much food loss and waste is created and identify where it occurs, enabling the targeting of efforts to reduce it. Please visit the full FLW Protocol site at http://www.flwprotocol.org.

Photo by F. Fiondella (IRI/CCAFS).