Waste Less, Nourish More: A Practitioners’ Playbook for Reducing Food Loss and Waste while Increasing Access to Nutrition

This playbook is a practical resource for those delivering projects and policy at the intersection of agri-food systems, nutrition, climate action and markets.

Transforming food systems requires addressing multiple challenges at once. In many contexts, high levels of food loss and waste occur alongside limited access to nutritious diets–yet these issues are often addressed separately.

The NutriSave initiative in Kenya, a multi-year program led by TechnoServe with support from the Gates Foundation and UK International Development, offers a different, more integrated approach. This new playbook charts the program’s experience working with the private sector to develop promising, commercially scalable solutions that reduce food loss and waste while delivering better nutrition for base-of-the-pyramid communities. It offers practical recommendations for policymakers and practitioners.