FAO Regional Impact Webinar: Food loss and waste reduction during processing

FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia is happy to invite you to the second webinar of the FAO Regional Series of Impact Webinars on Food Loss and Waste Reduction.

The first webinar considered ways to reduce food losses during harvest and post-harvest operations. The following session will focus on secondary processing (product transformation) and packaging stages in the food value chain and the ways to reduce food loss and waste.

The invited speakers will present relevant approaches and practices, including improved processing methods, innovative packaging solutions, use of by-products and left-over product material for human food.

Join the discussion at 10:00 – 12:15 CEST on 26 May 2021.

Registration is available at: https://bit.ly/3wjuaC2
Follow the web-stream (in English) here. 

Key speakers:
• Thea Koning, Senior Global Corporate Affairs and Issue Manager, Foods and Refreshment, Unilever
• Marta Perricone, Foods and Refreshment Supply Chain Manager Sustainability, Unilever
• Vasiliy Fokin, Head of Sustainability, Russia & CIS, Danone, Russia
• Christine Maziero, International Market Operations Director, BRF/Banvit, Turkey
• Selma Seddik, Co-founder and Owner, InStock
• Panel discussion on packaging solution to reduce food waste:
• Angelika Christ, Industry Expert
• Ulphard Thoden van Velzen, Senior Scientist Packaging Technology and Recycling, Wageningen University and Research
• Erik Mansson, CEO, Innoscentia
• Hayriye Unal, Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research & Application Center

Simultaneous interpretation in Russian and Turkish will be provided.

Click HERE for more information.