Winning on Reducing Food Waste – FY 2019-2020 Federal Interagency Strategy

The Winning on Reducing Food Waste – FY 2019-2020 Federal Interagency Strategy is a national sectoral strategy of the United States of America. Its main objective is to coordinate food loss and waste actions such as: education and outreach, research, community investments, voluntary programs, public-private partnerships, tool development, technical assistance, event participation and policy discussion on the impacts and importance of reducing food loss and waste.
More specifically, the Strategy aims for improving interagency coordination will enable USDA, EPA and FDA to use government resources more efficiently and effectively. An interagency, collaborative mechanism will be established to reduce programmatic redundancies and leverage complementary activities; increase consumer education and outreach efforts; increase consumer education and outreach efforts; clarify and communicate information on food safety, food date labels, and food donations; collaborate with private industry to reduce food loss and waste across the supply chain; and encourage food waste reduction by federal agencies in their respective facilities.