Food Waste
The Consumer Goods Forum, WRAP, and WRI Streamline Food Waste Reporting with Common Reporting Deadline for 2025
Paris, Thursday 17th April – The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Food Waste Coalition of Action, in partnership with WRAP and the World Resources Institute (WRI), has announced 13th June 2025 as a shared deadline for voluntary annual food waste reporting...
Food Waste
#TogetherforTomorrow – CGF and WRAP
The Consumer Goods Forum believes collaboration is key to reaching the Sustainable Development Agenda for 2030. We’re reflecting with our key partners about what collaboration means to us. In this video, hear from Dr. Richard...
Food Waste
Global Consumer Goods Companies Release First Collective Baseline Study, Putting Increased Transparency at the Forefront of Action to Reduce Food Waste and Loss
Paris, 16th November 2023 –The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)’s Food Waste Coalition of Action has today released its first baseline report, presenting operational food surplus and waste aggregated data from sixteen of its retailer and...
Food Waste
Industry Reports on Food Loss and Waste Using a Harmonised Cross-Initiative Approach
Spearheading the consumer goods industry’s action to reduce food loss and waste in own operations, members of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Food Waste Coalition of Action are now publicly reporting on their food surplus...
Food Waste
Engaging Citizens Around the World to Act on Food Waste
This year is already proving to be extraordinary. We are seeing inflation reigniting and disposable incomes falling in many countries, while poverty levels are predicted to rise. This is against a backdrop of 14% of...
Food Waste
WWF Collaborates With The Consumer Goods Forum to Launch New Global Farm Loss Tool to Tackle Emissions From Food Loss
Paris, 16th April 2024 – World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched the Global Farm Loss Tool for growers of all sizes to more easily measure and report on-farm food loss. Developed by WWF and tested...
Forest Positive
Scaling Solutions Through Collaboration: CGF at London Climate Action Week 2025
At London Climate Action Week (LCAW) 2025, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) showcased its commitment to building climate-resilient, deforestation-free, and socially responsible supply chains. With people and planet at the heart of our priorities and...
Food Waste
#TooGoodToWaste Campaign Launched to Inspire Consumer Behaviour Change
On September 29, 2023, the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW), The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Food Waste Coalition of Action launched #TooGoodToWaste, a food loss and waste education campaign that...
Food Waste
CGF Sustainability Director: “How Grocery Can Unite to Take Meaningful Action on Food Waste”
An article written by The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Director of Sustainability, Ignacio Gavilan, was published in The Grocer about the scale and implications of the global food waste problem, the role that the consumer...
Food Waste
The CGF Latin America Joins “Pacto por la Comida”
The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) is pleased to announce that it is a signatory of “Pacto por la Comida”, an ambitious voluntary agreement which aims to bring together stakeholders to make food and beverage production...
Food Waste
#TooGoodToWaste Campaign Launched to Inspire Reductions in Household Food Waste
Kicking off on International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, #TooGoodToWaste will harness the influence of CGF members by boosting awareness and action among the millions of consumers they reach. Leading members of...
Food Waste
Food Waste Coalition Steering Committee Meets in Copenhagen to Share Progress on SDG 12.3
On October 18th 2023, The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Food Waste Coalition Steering Committee came together ahead of the Sustainable Retail Summit in Copenhagen to discuss progress made on the Coalition’s objectives and the trajectory...
Sustainable Retail Summit
Recap: 2022 Sustainable Retail Summit Day 2
AMSTERDAM, 27th October 2022 – We kicked off an exciting start to our first full day of sessions with a warm welcome from moderator Isabelle Kumar and Wai-Chan Chan, Managing Director at The Consumer Goods...
Food Waste
New CGF and WWF Partnership Taking the Lead on Reducing Farm Loss to Help Shrink Footprint of Food
Each year, 2.5 billion tonnes of food are wasted across food service, grocery retail, and our own kitchens. A lesser known, and often not as well measured, part of the issue happens on farms due...
Food Waste
A Global Farm Loss Tool Grounded in Measurement
In the first blog on the Global Farm Loss Tool (GFLT) Project with the CGF’s Food Waste Coalition of Action members, we laid the foundation that food loss and waste (FLW) is a critical issue...
Food Waste
Global Farm Loss Tool: A Solution to Empower Growers
It goes without saying that every farmer on the planet would like to eliminate their on-farm losses and maximize their yield to harvest and sell. Yet as the first blog of this three-part series shows,...
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