Welcome to the South African Food Loss and Waste Initiative’s food loss and waste Reporting Platform.

Food loss and waste is a recognised global issue which is also affecting South Africa. According to the latest research, an estimated 10.3 million tonnes of food and beverages is wasted per year in South Africa (about a third of the food available), yet 9.34 million people in South African suffer from acute food insecurity and almost 20% of South African households have inadequate access to food. Food and beverage waste also has a significant impact on the environment due to the methane gas produced when food spoils, and in addition, resources such as water, labour and energy are wasted, and biodiversity is impacted.

South Africa’s Food Loss and Waste Initiative intends to respond to this challenge through a public, collaborative declaration of intent to reduce food and beverage waste and redistribute or enable markets for nutritious surplus food. Signatories to this initiative have committed to halving food loss and waste by 50% by 2030. The first step is to measure how much waste is occurring and then to take action to reduce this as far as possible. This reporting platform enables signatories to capture their food loss and waste data in a way that has been tested and adopted locally and that is internationally harmonised.

To sign up to this initiative and be part of the solution, please contact us at flw.initiative@cgcsa.co.za.