WRI Podcast #4 - Liz Goodwin on Reducing Food Loss and Waste—Lessons from the UK

On this episode of the WRI Podcast, Lawrence MacDonald interviews Liz Goodwin, a WRI senior fellow and our first director of food loss and waste. Goodwin, a British businesswoman and environmentalist, was previously CEO of the Waste Resources & Action Programme (WRAP), which catalyzed a national program that reduced UK food loss and waste by 21 percent, an achievement recognized last year when she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). FAO data has shown that about a third of all food produced is never eaten. If food loss and waste were its own country, it would be the world’s third-largest source of emissions after China and the United States.