Policy & action oriented interventions to reduce food waste across the food supply chain

Description

Hilke Bos-Brouwers was a guest lecturer at the Advanced Course on Measurement and actions to reduce food losses and waste, and enhance food system sustainability
The course is organized by the International Centre for Advanced
Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), through the Mediterranean
Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (CIHEAM Zaragoza) and the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The objective of this course is to provide attendants an updated and
upgraded state of the art about issues related to analysing food losses and
waste. At the end of the course, participants will have:
• a general idea about the importance of addressing food loss and waste;
• a workable definition of food losses and waste;
• information on the main causes and drivers of food losses (micro, meso and macro levels);
• acquired knowledge of the current tools to quantify food losses and waste;
• insight into strategic approaches to prevent and reduce food losses and waste;
• knowledge on policy-based and action-based interventions;
• a framework within which they can evaluate food losses and waste prevention and reduction strategies.

Period	29 May 2023 → 2 Jun 2023
Held at	Data Science & Informatics and Supply Chain Design