About The Sustainable Kitchen
The Sustainable Kitchen was created to showcase best practice examples of consumer communication, designed to inspire, drive awareness, and facilitate behaviour change towards reducing food waste while adopting healthier dietary habits.
This project, jointly created by The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Food Waste Coalition of Action and the Collaboration for Healthier Lives Coalition of Action, features recipes and resources from retailer and manufacturer members of both Coalitions.
If you would like to submit recipes or a resource please contact hs@theconsumergoodsforum.com.
Addressing Critical Global Challenges.
If food loss and waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases. According to the World Resources Institute (WRI), food loss and waste account for 8-10% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. Concurrently, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 1 in 3 people worldwide are malnourished, costing the global economy an estimated $3.5 trillion annually. Preventative measures are one of the best ways of combating the alarming rise in malnutrition-related disease. For example, the WHO cites a healthy diet and regular physical activity as ways to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.
About The Consumer Goods Forum
The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) is the only CEO-led organisation that represents both manufacturers and retailers globally. It brings together senior leaders from more than 400 retailers, manufacturers and other stakeholders across 70 countries. The CGF accelerates change through eight Coalitions of Action: forests, human rights, plastics, healthier lives, food waste, food safety, supply chains and product data. Its member companies have combined sales of EUR 4.6 trillion and directly employ nearly 10 million people, with a further 90 million related jobs estimated along the value chain. It is governed by its Board of Directors, which comprises more than 55 manufacturer and retailer CEOs.
Food Waste Coalition of Action
The Coalition of Action on Food Waste brings together 19 of the world’s largest consumer goods retailers and manufacturers with the goal of halving per capita global food loss at the retailer and consumer levels. With its explicit CEO engagement, action-oriented commitments and passion for accelerating sustainable change on a global level, the Coalition is a leader in the effort to reduce food loss in supply chains worldwide by driving action on key issues such as public reporting, full supply chain engagement, post-harvest losses and regional challenges. Together, the Coalition and its members play a powerful role in the effort to reduce waste, reducing stress on the environment, benefitting the global economy and ensuring more food makes it to stores and onto consumers’ tables in the process. For more information about the Coalition, visit www.tcgffoodwaste.com.
Collaboration for Healthier Lives Coalition of Action
The Coalition of Action on Collaboration for Healthier Lives (CHL) is about making it easier for people around the world to adopt healthier lives for themselves and their families. CHL initiatives are currently running across 9 countries and involving over 160 organisations. As a collective, members of the CGF, and their partners, are exploring, experimenting, innovating, and evolving business models to support positive change, while sharing data and knowledge at scale, cross industry. Health is not a competitive advantage; it’s a basic necessity. And it’s clear no company can solve this issue alone. Collaboration is needed at scale and across sectors if the consumer goods industry is to play the necessary role in the health and wellbeing of people. For more information about the Coalition, visit www.tcgfhealthierlives.com.