Cutting Food Waste Together: Action Tips from Across the Value Chain Food waste is one of the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, resource loss, and ecosystem strain. Tackling it is complex and often challenging, but when each part of the food system takes action, the collective impact can be transformative. At the CSCP, we’ve been working on food waste reduction for years—from a voluntary agreement in retail to co-creation in schools, from behaviour change to digital innovation. Across EU-funded projects and multi-stakeholder dialogues, we’ve seen one thing clearly: everyone has a role to play, and each action matters! To make these actions—and the roles different actors can play—more tangible, we launched a social media awareness campaign during the German Action Week for the Reduction of Food Waste (Aktionswoche gegen Lebensmittelverschwendung, 29 September – 6 October 2025). Each day, we spotlighted one group of actors: from producers and retailers to policymakers, tech developers, and consumers, and showcased concrete steps they can take to reduce food waste within their field of influence. Check out the full set of actions for each group of actors, curated by our team members working across diverse food waste reduction projects: Farmers & Producers Retailers & Wholesalers Schools & Educational Settings Civil Society & NGOs Policy Makers Tech Developers Consumers Everyone Together Our food topic experts frequently share practical actions and insights in various other contexts as well. In November 2025, CSCP Senior Project manager Nora Brüggemann presented a summary of EU activities against food waste and the range of CSCP related projects at the expert meeting in the context of the Dialogue Forum Private Households 2.0 in Berlin, Germany and the 32nd Witzenhäuser Conference, held in Witzenhausen under the motto “No bite too small to make a difference” (“Kein Bissen zu klein, um wichtig zu sein!”). Join us and taking actions to reduce food waste and loss and spread the word in your networks to inspire others to follow! To read more about our projects working on reducing food waste from different perspectives, take a look at the respective project pages: Breadcrumb – bringing evidence-based food chain solutions to prevent and reduce food waste related to marketing standards Dialogue Forum – a German national dialogue forum for reduction of food waste in wholesale and retail that led to a Voluntary Agreement among all major wholesale and retail actors in Germany FoodLoops – aims at closing the biowaste loop in the school setting CHORIZO – worked in reducing food waste by exploring how social norms influence behaviours REIF – creating food waste reduction concepts based on AI CARE – supporting circular living in European households For further questions, please contact Nora Brüggemann.