UiPath Platform: The Backend Engine Powering Your Automation - Session 1
Management of Food Losses and Food Waste for Food Security in the Asia-Pacific: FAO’s SAVE FOOD AP Initiative
1. Rosa S. Rolle, PhD
Senior Agro-Industries and Post-harvest Officer
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Inception and Planning Workshop
Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for
Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice
Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong River Basin
2. Forces that shape the region’s food system
Strategies to address hunger and food
insecurity
Food losses and waste
◦ Causes, magnitude and impacts
The Save Food Campaign
◦ Objectives
◦ Outputs
◦ Activities
3. Population growth coupled with rising living standards.
Increasing urbanization and changing dietary habits.
Declining land resources for agriculture and a growing
scarcity of water resources.
The threat of climate change.
Rising food prices, rising energy prices and declining
farm incomes.
High levels of food losses and the growing problem
of food waste
5. Increase food productivity using existing land.
Address the critical issue of reducing food losses
and waste.
6. Food Losses
◦ Take place at the beginning of the supply
chain - during production, post-harvest
handling, processing and distribution stages
of the food supply chain
Food Waste
◦ Food losses occurring at the end of the food
supply chain and is largely associated with
the behavior of retailers, the food service
sector and consumers.
11. Lack of a market orientation
Pest infestations and disease
Poor/inadequate
◦ Basic infrastructure and market facilities
◦ Post-harvest specific infrastructure and technology
Dry and cool storage
◦ Transport
◦ Bulk Packaging
12. Limited knowledge base of stakeholders
Poorly integrated supply chains
Weak institutional support for post-harvest
systems development
13. Limited knowledge base on processing and lack of
technology suited to small scale processing
17. Negative impact on hunger, food security and
nutrition.
Negative environmental impacts because of
the energy, biodiversity, greenhouse gases,
water, soil and other resources embedded in
food that no one consumes.
18. ◦ Awareness
Of the magnitude of losses and their impacts on
food security
◦ Organization/coordination in supply chains
Producer organizations, contract farming, clustering,
etc.
◦ Human resource capacity development
◦ Technology and essential support systems
Production, post-harvest and processing technology
Logistics, information management, access to finance
and support services.
◦ An enabling environment
Infrastructure, policy support
19. A Campaign designed to draw attention to
the high levels of food losses and the
growing problem of food waste, and
particularly table waste across Asia and the
Pacific Region.
Initiated in collaboration with Asian Institute
of Technology (AIT)
◦ Campaign Secretariat is hosted by the ACISAI
Center of AIT.
20. Through the development of partnerships and
networks with a range of stakeholders:
◦ Raise public awareness on the magnitude of food
losses and waste in the region and their impacts
on food security and hunger.
◦ Advocate for the reduction of food losses and
waste in the region, as an important measure
toward attaining MDG1.
21. …..Through the development of partnerships and
networks with a range of stakeholders:
◦ Promote the development of policy measures and
strategic approaches geared toward reducing
food losses and waste in Asia and the Pacific
Region
◦ Guide the development of interventions geared
toward reducing food losses and waste in the
region.
22. Awareness raised at all levels across the
region on the magnitude of food losses and
waste in the region, its impacts on hunger
and food security, and strategies to mitigate
these losses and wastes.
A three-year regional programme formulated
and initiated with the aim to reduce food
losses and food waste in Asia and the Pacific
Region
23. A two-day consultation to promote
awareness and obtain high level endorsement
of the campaign
Distribution of promotional materials
Documentaries highlighting food losses and
waste
◦ Targeting higher level audiences
◦ Targeting schools
24. Publicity through a Save Food web-site and
through social media
Promotional Events
◦ TV talk show
◦ Drawing competition – high school level
◦ Photography competition
◦ Marathon/rally/walk
◦ “Blow the Whistle on waste” in schools
Strategic programmes with partners
◦ Cooperation with the food retail and food service
sectors