Research and analysis

From waste to resource productivity: food waste

Report examining why and how we should reduce food waste in the UK.

• From: Government Office for Science and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 14 December 2017

Documents

Food waste: a response to the policy challenge

PDF, 107 KB, 9 pages

Details

It explores the benefits and costs of reducing food waste in the UK and how policy-makers could do this.

Officials in the Government Office for Science wrote this paper based on consultation and seminars with:

• Professor Sir Mark Walport, the former Government Chief Scientific Adviser
• Professor Ian Boyd, the Chief Scientific Adviser of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
• experts from academia, industry, government and non-government organisations

The views expressed in this report do not represent Defra policy.

Read the main report: ‘From waste to resource productivity’.

Published 14 December 2017