Billions of tonnes of food is wasted every year across the entire supply chain. This can be attributed to both systemic and structural reasons such as poor production, storage and transport techniques as well as stringent export requirements causing production and postharvest loss, degradation, or discarding. In many countries, fruit and vegetables that do not meet export and trade requirements imposed by buyers abroad, are simply lost. Consequently, even in insecure food environments, perfectly edible food is wasted in markets that, for various reasons, do not absorb this food domestically. No matter why and where food loss occurs, it results in income losses for the producers, a reduction of food availability and, hence, food security, increased prices and has serious environmental impacts. Therefore, food loss needs to be addressed with a global view and increased policy coherence on the local level. This project will analyze the impact of trade requirements on quality of export-oriented production in developing and transition countries and help develop policy coherent measures both in the target countries and at the international standardization level. The project is designed with the intention of reducing food loss in the supply chain, particularly in the pre-shipment phase, expedite the clearance of perishable goods and reinforce multilaterally agreed quality levels for agrifood trade and domestic markets.