PART 4:
VALUE CHAIN SOLUTIONS
& SOUTH AFRICA’S FOOD
WASTE AGREEMENT

PART 4: VALUE CHAIN SOLUTIONS & SOUTH AFRICA’S FOOD WASTE AGREEMENT

PREVENT. REDUCE. REDISTRIBUTE. REUSE.

PREVENT. REDUCE. REDISTRIBUTE. REUSE.

IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO ACT, WE URGE YOU TO RESPOND TO THE URGENT CHALLENGE OF FOOD WASTE.

RECAP

PART 1: Ensuring a Traceable Value Chain from Farm to Fork
PART 2: Reducing Food Losses and Waste
PART 3: Bringing it All Together

PART 4

Working Together

PREVENT. REDUCE. REDISTRIBUTE. REUSE.

The Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA) launched
the South African Food Loss and Waste Voluntary Agreement.

The agreement (led by the CGCSA, in partnership with the national departments
of Forestry, Fisheries & Environment and Trade, Industry & Competition)
intends to respond to the urgent challenge of food waste through a public,
collaborative and voluntary declaration of intent to reduce food waste
and redistribute or enable markets for surplus foods.

The agreement (led by the CGCSA, in partnership with the national departments of Forestry, Fisheries & Environment and Trade, Industry & Competition) intends to respond to the urgent challenge of food waste through a public, collaborative and voluntary declaration of intent to reduce food waste and redistribute or enable markets for surplus foods.

Value Chain Solutions is an Associate Signatory

YOU CAN BECOME A SIGNATORY.

To join, visit the sign-up process page, choose your signatory agreement,
complete the information requested and send it to: [email protected]

Global supply chains are under increased pressure to not only improve reliability
and reduce costs, but to do so in an ethical and sustainable manner. To this end,
Value Chain Solutions is a signatory to the Food Waste initiative as we support
various other forums across the value chain.

Our goal is to support the efforts of these groups with (a) data analytics and tools
to measure and understand hotspots and opportunities across the consumer goods
space and (b) expert input regarding value and supply chain optimisation.

Global supply chains are under increased pressure to not only improve reliability and reduce costs, but to do so in an ethical and sustainable manner. To this end, Value Chain Solutions is a signatory to the Food Waste initiative as we support various other forums across the value chain.

Our goal is to support the efforts of these groups with (a) data analytics and tools to measure and understand hotspots and opportunities across the consumer goods space and (b) expert input regarding value and supply chain optimisation.

THE BENEFITS OF BECOMING A SIGNATORY

By working together with stakeholders in South Africa’s
food sector, agreement signatories can benefit through: