Presentación de Murillo Freire Junior (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), en el marco del “Second Regional Dialogue on Prevention and Reduction of Food Losses and Waste”, realizado el 17 y 18 de noviembre de 2016, en Saint George’s, Granada.

1. PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE PREVENTION OF
FOOD LOSSES AND WASTES
FLW 2 ND REGIONAL DIALOGUE
Murillo Freire Junior
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
BRAZIL

2. 2015
Governance and Alliances Axis
• We are issuing technical notes to improve some
amendments of the Brazilian Federal Chamber and
Federal Senate: Senate Bill Nº738/2015 and House
Bill Nº3070/2015;
• In order to regulate food donation another seven
bills were introduced in 2015: Chamber Bill
1748/2015; 1788/2015; 2131/2015; 2352/2015;
2194/2015; 2574/2015 and 2775/2015 .

3. 2015
Research and Technology Axis
• Online participation on the course "Global Postharvest
Loss Prevention: Fundamentals, Technologies, and
Actors" organized by the University of Illinois and the
ADM Institute (February);
• In the second edition of the same course (June), I
became an assistant professor with the orientation of
new students;
• Participation in the First International Congress on
Prevention of Post-harvest Loss, held in Rome (October)
with a presentation of work on losses in the banana
chain.

4. 2015
Research and Technology Axis
• Participation in a Consultative Workshop entitled:
"Defining an e-learning curriculum on Postharvest
Food Loss Assessment" Organized by FAO - held at
the World Food Program (WFP) headquarters on
October, Rome, Italy;
• The Workshop was jointly organized by the
Agroindustries Division and the Office of
Development of Associations of Defense and
Capacity of Rural Infrastructure.

5. 2015
Communication and Dissemination Axis
Embrapa organized and carried out three seminars to
broaden the discussion on reducing losses and waste:
• Food and Nutrition Security: route, research and
perspectives (April 10);
• Loss and waste reduction and Food and Nutrition
Security (April 30);
• Food and Nutrition Security Risk (June 12).

6. 2015
Communication and Dissemination Axis
• Roundtable conference at the 5th Congress on Food
and Nutrition Security Council linked to the Ministry
of Social Development (CONSEA); Conference
untitled Food Losses and Waste in Brazil: An
Agenda for Government and Society. Seminar held
at Brasília/DF with discussion board of Embrapa,
FAO - Brazil and University of Campinas/SP.

7. 2016
Governance and Alliances Axis
• Participation in a public hearing of the Committee on
Agriculture and Agrarian Reform of the Federal Senate
in Brasília/DF ( June 16) to discuss the establishment of
a National Policy to Combat Food Waste.
• The public hearing, which was requested by the
committee's president, Senator Ana Amélia (PP-RS) and
Senator Lasier Martins (PDT-RS), was the last of three
meetings to instruct the Senate Bill Nº 672, Nº 675 and
Nº 738/2015.

8. 2016
Governance and Alliances Axis
It was schedule The First Meeting of the Secretariat of Support
for the National Committee to Combat Food Losses and Waste.
Date: Nov 28;
• Discussion about the formation of a Brazilian Network for
the Reduction of FLW and a National Committee for
Reduction of FLW;
• Organization of activities to be developed, responsibilities
and schedule for implementation.

9. 2016
Governance and Alliances Axis
The First Meeting of the Secretariat of Support for the National
Committee to Combat Food Losses and Waste.
Participants:
• Secretariat of Food and Nutrition Security and International
Assistance of the Ministry of Social an Agrarian Development
(MDSA) – Kathleen Oliveira Machado;
• Representatives of the Save Food Brazil Network;
• Food Losses and Waste Focal Points of the FAO Representation in
Brazil ( Alan Bojanic; Gustavo Chianca and Juliana Rosseto);
• Focal Points of the FAO Representation in Latin America and
Caribbean was invited (Tania Santivanez).

10. 2016
Research and Technology Axis
• Elaboration and submission of a research and transfer
proposal of project presented at EMBRAPA/DF to
reduce losses in the Banana chain in Acre/AC.
• Embrapa/DF has created an arrangement for projects
on the thematic line "Value Aggregation" where project
proposals can be submitted in the subject of food losses
and waste.
• My research center Embrapa Agroindústria de
Alimentos defined as a highlight for the year actions on
food losses and wastes.

11. 2016
Communication and Dissemination Axis
Presented lectures:
• Sustainability and Food Seminar: The Road to Reducing Waste.
(March 15 - Federation of Industries of the State of Rio de
Janeiro).
The event addressed the optimization of processes in the food value
chain and how sustainable practices can be inserted in this context.
• Panel: Agriculture: Good practices in planting, harvesting,
transportation and storage of food.
Lecture held at the Business Forum of Agribusiness (May 04 – FIRJAN
- Industries Federation of the state of Rio de Janeiro) entitled "Main
aspects for Reduction of food losses and waste in Brazil ".

12. 2016
Communication and Dissemination Axis
Presented lectures:
• Lecture held at the event organized by the Swiss House in
virtue of the Olympic Games, entitled Food Safety
Conference held on Set. 15.
• Creation the web site Save Food Brasil (May)
www.savefoodbrasil.org
www.savefoodbrasil.com.br

13. 2016
Communication and Dissemination Axis
Main journalistic matters:
• Interview for Active Life Magazine - Mar / Abr / May 2016 - Year 3 - Nº 6;
• Interview for TV ALERJ on 03/15/2016;
• Interview for the Brazilian Problems Magazine Nº 434 - March / April
2016;
• Journalism matter in the Electronic Clipping Embrapa (March 24);
• Reporting Paths for TV Brasil, on food waste in Brazil and in the world
(June 15).
• Interview recording for the TV Program Connection Science at the
Brazilian Communication Company / EBC in Brasília (Oct 06) on Food
Losses and Waste in Brazil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZJvGvgpSra;

14. 2016
Communication and Dissemination Axis
• Creating a thematic page on the Embrapa website:
https://www.embrapa.br/tema-perdas-e-desperdicio-de-
alimentos;
• On October 20, launched as part of the World Food Day,
Embrapa, WWF-Brazil and the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO - Brazil) initiated the digital
action "Waste Mania" through the hashtag
#MinhaGastromania.

15. 2017
• Invitation to join the 3rd SAVE FOOD Congress in Düsseldorf
on the 4th of May 2017 and take the opportunity to sit down
together and discuss further collaboration.
Mrs. Isabel Chanteaux,
Messe Düsseldorf GmbH
Stockumer Kirchstr. 61
40474 Düsseldorf
Germany
www.save-food.org
www.messe-dusseldorf.de

16. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
murillo.freire@embrapa.br