Workshop

Reducing Food Loss and Waste: Dual Impact Actions to Address Climate Change and Improve Nutrition

calendar
Jun 2nd, 2024 - Jun 7th, 2024
location
Aspen

Globally, 30-40% of food produced is either lost or wasted, thereby contributing nothing to meet the nutrient needs of the world’s most nutritionally vulnerable people, and also exacerbating climate change. This workshop will focus on identifying and discussing post-harvest loss mitigation, innovations (technologies, processes, policies), methods and food waste reduction approaches that are actionable and easy to adapt/implement in low resource environments and how to recruit financing for these options. Additionally, this workshop will provide actionable policy and programming recommendations for policy makers and donor organizations to support reducing food loss and waste globally.


Specific workshop objectives include:

  • Development of policy and programmatic recommendations (including possible financing options) to support sustainable food systems transformation with an emphasis on nutrient-dense foods in low and middle income countries (LMIC).
  • Development of policy recommendations towards reducing FLW in the US (including after foods have been delivered to consumers such as identifying behavioral strategies to drive consumers behavior change)
  • Identification of innovations (technologies, novel foods, behaviors, preferences, policies, and processes), with potential for scaling to support reduction of FLW
  • Generation of awareness of the negative effects of loss and waste of nutrient-dense foods on both economic development and nutritional status, and the flaws in our current supply chain
  • Donor organizations, governments and the private sector to allocate funding and resources for research projects and development programs to reduce FLW of nutrient-dense foods
  • Elevate the need to address FLW to address multiple global issues (i.e., climate change, malnutrition, economic development).
  • Framework for better quantifying FLW (aggregate and disaggregate), and recommendations for how to address key data collection gaps, including food losses (pre-harvest and post-harvest) in low vs. middle vs. high income country contexts
Funding Partners

Agenda

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Day 1June 3, 2024

10:50 am Session 1. State of Global, Regional and National Food Loss and Waste Reduction

2:25 pm Status of FLW in MENA

Organizers

Ann Vaughn

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Senior Advisor for Climate Change
starEvent Co-Organizer

Jean Buzby

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Food Loss and Waste Liaison
starEvent Co-Chair

Shibani Ghosh

Feed the Future Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab
Director
starEvent Co-Chair

Ahmed Kablan

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Senior Science Advisor
starEvent Co-Chair

Nika Larian

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Senior Food Safety Advisor
starEvent Co-Chair

Robin Shrestha

Tufts University
Associate Director
starEvent Co-Chair

Attendees

Pegasus Capital Advisors
Food & Ag Portfolio Lead
Cornell University
Postdoctoral Associate
National Academy of Sciences
Senior Director
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Country Director
CoreZero
Sourcing & Operation Director
Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF)s
Vice President of External Relations
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Program Officer, Nutritious Food Systems
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Program Manager for the Terrestrial Ecology Program (TE)
Agronometrics
Data Scientist
Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU)
Professor
Partners in Food Solutions
Program Director
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Portfolio Lead, Large Scale Food Fortification and Agriculture Value Chain
TechnoServe Inc.
Program Director
U.S. Department of State
Foreign Affairs Officer
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR)
Professor
World Wildlife Fund
Global Lead – Food Waste
The Global Foodbanking Network
Strategy and Innovation, Senior Director
Cornell University
Professor and Director
Ohio State University
Professor
Mexican Foodbanking Network (BAMX)
National Manager
National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal
Joint Secretary
Pacto Contra a Fome (PCF)
Director
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Deputy Director, Institute of Food Safety & Nutrition
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Interim Director, Nutrition, Gender & Climate, Agricultural Development
WRAP
Director of Impact Growth
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Chief Economist
Thriving Solutions
Founder and CEO
Baliyo Nepal Nutrition Initiative
Chief Executive Officer
Teikyo University
Professor

The attendee list and participant profiles are regularly updated. For information on participant affiliation at the time of workshop, please refer to the historical roster. If you are aware of updates needed to participant or workshop records, please notify AGCI’s workshops team.