National Strategy and Plan of Action to Combat Food Waste (ENCDA) 2017. Country/Territory Portugal Document type Date 2017 Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleZero food waste: Sustainable production for responsible consumption. Subject Food & nutrition, Waste & hazardous substances Keyword Policy/planning Hygiene/sanitary procedures Food security Food quality control/food safety Food waste Institution Poverty Waste management Organic waste Recycling/reuse Waste disposal Waste domestic sources Environmental planning Geographical area Europe, EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Southern Europe Entry into force notes 2017-2020 Abstract The vision of the National Strategy to Combat Food Waste (ENCDA) is Zero food waste for a Sustainable production for responsible consumption and is intended to reflect the Commission's objective of concerted action, without overlapping or conflict of approaches, maximizing synergies so as not to jeopardize initiatives already launched on the ground, aiming at zero food waste: Sustainable production for responsible consumption. The vision has as its starting point the mission of the National Commission for Combating Food Waste (CNCDA), Combating food waste, a shared responsibility of the producer to the consumer, in a perspective of reflecting the mission of the founding dispatch of the CNCDA, that is, to promote the reduction of food waste through an approach integrated and multidisciplinary. Full text Portuguese Website www.gpp.pt