DRIVING FOOD LOSS AND WASTE REDUCTION THROUGH INNOVATION

CFS 47 - Online side event (13:00 – 14:15 CET)  

Food loss and food waste (FLW) are symptoms of larger inefficiencies in agri-food systems. Food losses, in particular, have negative impacts on food security, as well as on economic development and environmental sustainability. Innovation plays a critical role in stepping up the fight against FLW, toward addressing agri-food systems transformation.

This event will discuss technological and digital innovations in food loss reduction as well as the role of data-driven solutions in helping to reduce food loss, toward informing policy and decision making in transforming agri-food systems. Requirements for further unlocking the potential of innovation to scale up food loss reduction will also be discussed.

 

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Tentative agenda

 

Moderator - Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

 

13:00 Opening Remarks

Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, FAO

 

Presentations

Innovations to reduce food loss and waste - Perspectives and examples from a think tank.

Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank, United States of America

Innovations to reduce food loss: Experience from an African private sector entity.

Timothy Laku, Chief Technology Officer, Bringo Fresh, Uganda

Innovations to reduce food loss and waste.

Pete Pearson, Food Loss and Waste Director, World Wildlife Fund

A country perspective on innovation to reduce food loss.

S Joni Munarso, Senior Researcher for Indonesia Centre for Agricultural Postharvest

Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture Republic of Indonesia 

Data-driven solutions to influence food loss reduction policy

Lina Salazar, Senior Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

Perspectives on innovation to reduce food loss.

Geeta Sethi, Advisor and Global Lead for Food Systems, The World Bank

 

13:45 Questions and Answers

 

14:10 Wrap-up by the moderator

 

14:15 Close