Research and analysis: From waste to resource productivity: food waste

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.