{"id":2230,"date":"2026-04-02T12:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agriture.jp\/industry_news\/food-loss-fy2023-env-464-mantons\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:46:43","slug":"food-loss-fy2023-env-464-mantons","status":"publish","type":"industry_news","link":"https:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/industry_news\/food-loss-fy2023-env-464-mantons\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of the Environment Announces FY2023 Food Loss at 4.64 Million Tons\u2014An 80,000-Ton Reduction Year-on-Year, but Still Halfway to the 2030 Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of the Environment announced that<strong>food-loss generation in Japan in FY2023 (Reiwa 5) was about 4.64 million tons<\/strong>. This is a reduction of 80,000 tons from about 4.72 million tons in the previous fiscal year (FY2022), and a steady improving trend continues. However, achieving the government's FY2030 target still requires a substantial reduction, and the situation calls for accelerating efforts across both the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FY2023 breakdown: 2.31 million tons business-related, 2.33 million tons household<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The breakdown of the data announced this time is as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Category<\/th><th>FY2023 (Reiwa 5)<\/th><th>FY2022 (Reiwa 4)<\/th><th>Year-on-year<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Business-related food loss<\/td><td>About 2.31 million tons<\/td><td>About 2.36 million tons<\/td><td>\u25b250,000 tons<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Household food loss<\/td><td>About 2.33 million tons<\/td><td>About 2.36 million tons<\/td><td>\u25b230,000 tons<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total<\/td><td>About 4.64 million tons<\/td><td>About 4.72 million tons<\/td><td>\u25b280,000 tons<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reduction is progressing in both the business-related and household categories, but seen in terms of scale, the reality that a huge volume of 4.64 million tons of food a year is still discarded is weighty. The continued implementation of various measures based on the Act on Promotion of Food Loss Reduction (enforced in Reiwa 1) supports this reduction trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The gap with the 2030 target: a situation still halfway to achievement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As numerical targets for food-loss reduction, the Japanese government has set out<strong>halving household food loss versus FY2000 and reducing business-related food loss by 60% versus FY2000 by FY2030<\/strong>.<a href=\"http:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/industry_news\/food-loss-policy-2nd-2030-60percent\/\">The 2030 target for food-loss reduction<\/a>For details, please also refer to this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FY2000 food-loss generation is said to have been about 9 million tons, so for the household category the calculation is that reduction has progressed to roughly half of that time, but there is still a gap toward the 60% reduction target for the business-related category.<a href=\"http:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/industry_news\/food-loss-2023-record\/\">Record reduction in food loss in 2023<\/a>Together with related trends, the future trajectory draws attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Household food loss in particular is directly tied to individual consumption behavior, so awareness activities and coordination with retail and dining are essential.<a href=\"http:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/industry_news\/too-good-to-go-super-value-2026\/\">Too Good To Go<\/a>The spread of food-sharing services like<a href=\"http:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/industry_news\/foodbank-certification-maff-april-2026\/\">and the development of a food-bank certification system,<\/a>approaches from both the private sector and government are progressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The background of reducing food waste: ripple effects across all of agriculture and distribution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reducing food loss is also an important effort from the standpoint of lowering disposal costs and curbing greenhouse-gas emissions. Reducing the waste that occurs across the entire supply chain\u2014from agricultural production to processing, distribution, and consumption\u2014is directly tied to building a sustainable food system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, for vegetables, the proportion of off-spec and surplus product discarded after harvest is high.<a href=\"http:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/industry_news\/vegetable-deficit-youth-dried-veg\/\">Vegetable shortage and the use of dried vegetables<\/a>Including such perspectives, an approach that combines food-loss measures at the production stage with value-added proposals to consumers will likely grow further in importance going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of the Environment states it will continue to promote measures toward food-loss reduction, and future policy trends toward achieving the 2030 target draw attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Source: Ministry of the Environment press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.env.go.jp\/press\/press_00002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.env.go.jp\/press\/press_00002.html<\/a>\uff09<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u74b0\u5883\u7701\u306f\u3001\u4ee4\u548c5\u5e74\u5ea6\uff082023\u5e74\u5ea6\uff09\u306b\u304a\u3051\u308b\u65e5\u672c\u56fd\u5185\u306e\u98df\u54c1\u30ed\u30b9\u767a\u751f\u91cf\u304c\u7d04464\u4e07\u30c8\u30f3\u3067\u3042\u3063\u305f\u3068\u516c\u8868\u3057\u305f\u3002\u524d\u5e74\u5ea6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"swell_btn_cv_data":"","ssp_meta_description":"\u74b0\u5883\u7701\u306f\u3001\u4ee4\u548c5\u5e74\u5ea6\uff082023\u5e74\u5ea6\uff09\u306b\u304a\u3051\u308b\u65e5\u672c\u56fd\u5185\u306e \u98df\u54c1\u30ed\u30b9\u767a\u751f\u91cf\u304c\u7d04464\u4e07\u30c8\u30f3 \u3067\u3042\u3063\u305f\u3068\u516c\u8868\u3057\u305f\u3002\u524d\u5e74\u5ea6\uff08\u4ee4\u548c4\u5e74\u5ea6\uff09\u306e\u7d04472\u4e07\u30c8\u30f3\u304b\u30898\u4e07\u30c8\u30f3\u306e\u524a\u6e1b\u3068\u306a\u308a\u3001\u7740\u5b9f\u306a\u6539\u5584\u50be\u5411\u304c\u7d9a\u3044\u3066\u3044\u308b\u3002","ssp_meta_keyword":"\u74b0\u5883\u7701"},"categories":[1,49,44,96],"tags":[83,82],"class_list":["post-2230","industry_news","type-industry_news","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-column","category-food-loss-reduction","category-industry-news-cat","category-imperfect-produce","tag-environment","tag-food-waste"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry_news\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/industry_news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriture.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}