Farming and food supply library

We need to be increasingly agile in providing packaging solutions that fit within both ecological and food systems that are sustainable. Our products must remain protected from manufacture through to the consumer, preserved, with the right qualities to maintain product quality, flexibility, safety and hygiene, and consumers should be informed through guidance or labelling. Throughou...

According to WRAP's research and estimates compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), approximately one-third of all food produced in the world is lost or wasted. To counter the enormous human and environmental costs of food waste, the UK government is considering legislation to deal with the issue. In September 2018, in partnership with WRAP we launched t...

Food is in our cultural and social DNA. It provides the stuff of life. It nourishes us, it nurtures us, it benefits us physiologically and socially and economically. IGD has been “Working on Waste” since late 2013, with our first full programme in 2014. Focusing on household food waste (HHFW) specifically, highlights have included: Consumer research amongst the 18-34 year old segment...

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IGD is launching a brand new initiative which aims for companies to help consumers reduce food waste. The campaign, called ‘ Working on Waste ’, is in collaboration with WRAP and will bring together food and grocery companies from across the UK during October 2014. There will be a month of co-ordinated industry activity which will give employees and consumers insight into ways of reducin...

Here are a list of frequently asked questions about our Working on Waste campaign. If you have a general question about how to deliver Working on Waste activities in your organisation that you do not feel is covered here, please email [email protected] . Suitable questions will be added to this page on an ongoing basis.  Don't forget you can also check out our Toolkit for ...

What’s the issue? One way that mankind has kept pace with the growing demand for food is to bring more farmland in to production. However, almost all of the world’s naturally fertile land is now in use. The scope to expand this further is very limited. New farmland is being created by clearing forests but this of course is a major contributor to atmospheric CO 2 and so is not a sensible o...

What’s the issue? Food waste is an obvious barrier to food security. The higher the level of waste, the harder it becomes to match supply with demand. Relatively low prices for food have allowed many Western societies to develop wasteful habits and yet still comfortably afford to eat. Arguably, this “crowds out” lower income consumers, leaving less food to go around. Certainly, if eatin...

What’s the issue? Affordability is a key component of food security. Whenever safe and nutritious food is not available at a price affordable to all, then the welfare of some people is jeopardised. Throughout modern history, the tendency has been for food affordability to improve, relative to income, but this is not a guaranteed trend. Threats to affordability may either be persistent or t...

What’s the issue? The rising world population, coupled with improved nutrition standards and shifting dietary preferences from economic development and globalisation are escalating the global demand for food. This sets the challenge for supply to keep pace and avert rising prices. Given that food markets are global, rising prices affect people everywhere. This applies at an aggregate level...