LOWINFOOD General Project Meeting
The project held its general meeting from 24th to 26th September 2024 in Greece
AREFLH is a partner of LOWINFOOD, a project that focuses on “Multi-actor design of low-waste food value chains through the demonstration of innovative solutions to reduce food loss and waste”. LOWINFOOD supports the reduction of the loss and waste in the European Union by demonstrating innovative solutions following a multi-actor approach along the entire value chain.
The project held its general meeting from 24th to 26th September 2024 in Archanes, Crete, Greece. The meeting was organised by one of partners of the project : Harokopio University (HUA).
The first day, the meeting focused on :
- the preparation of the third report to be sent to the EU Commission.
- the outcomes of the demonstration of LOWINFOOD innovations
- the advancement and the lessons learned from the seven demonstrations.
- the evaluation of the innovations.
- the policy and the marker action to foster the implementation of innovations against food loss and waste across supply chains.
Furthermore, on the first day the innovations work packages leader discussed the key messages that emerged from the innovations applied in different supply chains and shared similarities and indications for the policy changes.
During the other days participants visited the International conference Rethink, Food Resources, losses and Waste 2024, (RETASTE 2024). The conference centers on innovative solutions and optimization schemes that exploit significant opportunities for food waste reduction, reuse, and recycling at all stages of the food life cycle, as well as their scalability and commercial translatability. In parallel, RETASTE aims to address the social aspects of food waste issues, as well as to highlight ways to tackle social and perception barriers against reducing our environmental footprint, thus shifting the evolving future of the social, market, and global megatrends.
The global food chain system is the largest source of greenhouse gasses in the world, and the largest cause of biodiversity loss, terrestrial ecosystem destruction, freshwater consumption, and waterway pollution, due to the mismanagement of biocides and nutrients. On top of these deficiencies, approximately 30% of all produced food is wasted throughout farm-to-fork processes, while more than 900 million people remain undernourished. The margin for improvement of the global food chain system is therefore huge and may unlock pathways towards the stability of the Earth's ecosystem and a better future for humanity.
The LOWINFOOD project aims at finding some solutions to reduce food waste and to educate the new generation to understand how food is important and that we need to take care of it and not waste it.
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This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No.101000439
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