In Australia alone, more than seven million tonnes of food is wasted each year—a third of all food produced. Through Food Systems Horizons, The University of Queensland and CSIRO are using science to help Australians understand the food system, their roles in it, and who they need to work with to develop a more sustainable, nutritious and equitable food system. Clean-up Australia has advice about what you can do to combat food wastage in the home.
Researchers at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have partnered on a global project to boost food security, to develop a new AI-powered tool to help repurpose global agrifood waste and improve food security. The new project will use fermentation to transform agrifood waste into sustainable high-quality protein which can be used as ingredients in food production.
Consumers Federation of Australia (CFA) engages with these issues by supporting representative to Standards Australia committee FT-037 Food loss & waste and ISO committee ISO/TC 34/SC 20 Food loss and waste working on management systems to minimise food loss and waste across the food supply chain. The committees contribute to developing international standards which support UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 to halve per capita global food waste by 2030.
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