The National Food waste Strategy provides a framework to support collective action towards reducing food waste by aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 12—ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns with particular focus on contributing to Goal 12.3 “By 2030, halve per capita food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along the production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses” —in the United Nations Transforming our world: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It also helps give effect to Uganda obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its commitment in National Determined Contribution to helping in reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The government of Uganda has put in place enabling policy frameworks for food loss and waste reduction and these include the constitution of the republic of Uganda objective 12 (twelve) which compels the state to take appropriate steps to grow and store adequate food, vision 2040 which underscores the need to reduce food loss and wastage and improve food safety among others”. The Nation Development Plan III 2020/21 to 2024/25 (NDP III) which provides for establishment of the National Food and Agriculture Statistics system, supports establishment of Food Technology Incubations, National Store and Relief Food Chain Management System and prioritizes agro-industrialization with the aim of creating jobs making households food secure and minimizing post-harvest food loss and waste.