The Global Farm Loss Tool

Up to 40% of all food is lost or wasted from farm to fork. Of that total, 1.2 billion tonnes (or 15%) is lost on farms during and after harvest. This represents not only a loss of nutrients and food, but also a massive amount of resources—including 10% of all agricultural GHG emissions and a land area larger than the subcontinent of India.

To decarbonize our food system, prevent further agricultural expansion into nature, and feed the world's growing population, we must utilize more of what we grow and tackle food loss on farms. But we cannot manage this problem until we begin to measure it.

To accelerate progress on this issue, WWF has developed—alongside  Consumer Goods Forum, World Resources Institute, WRAP-UK, Lyncros, and others—a simplified Global Farm Loss Tool (GFLT) for growers of all sizes and crop types to easily measure and report on-farm losses. In doing so, the GFLT aims to help farmers easily communicate what is being left behind in the field and why, in an effort to help them partner with buyers and suppliers to develop new channels for their surplus.