The International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste is celebrated every year on September 29.

• It is a day to call to action for both the public and private sectors to prioritize actions and innovations to reduce food loss and waste in the World.
• This is all geared towards restoring and building back better and resilient-ready food systems.
• Reducing food losses and waste is of the utmost priority in a world where the number of people affected by hunger has been slowly on the rise since 2014, and tonnes of edible food are lost and/or wasted every day.
• The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (F.A.O.) was established in 1945 to defeat hunger in the World and they have made several strides towards achieving this, including meeting up in December 2019 to collectively establish a day for the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, of which September 29 was chosen.