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TOWARDS A NEW ZERO FOOD WASTE MINDSET BASED ON HOLISTIC ASSESSMENT

Description du projet

Prendre de meilleures décisions pour des modes de production et de consommation alimentaires plus durables

Chaque année, quelque 88 millions de tonnes de nourriture sont gaspillées à tous les échelons de la chaîne d’approvisionnement de l’UE. L’évaluation des effets économiques, environnementaux et sociaux de ce problème de taille est difficile pour plusieurs raisons. Le projet ToNoWaste, financé par l’UE, entend mettre en œuvre une approche d’évaluation multipartite et interdisciplinaire qui tient compte des défis agronomiques, économiques, environnementaux et liés aux modèles commerciaux, ainsi que des aspects psychologiques, juridiques et d’innovation sociale. Le projet mènera des recherches et utilisera des résultats passés pour recenser les facteurs sociaux, techniques, environnementaux, économiques, politiques, juridiques, éthiques et démographiques, qui favorisent ou entravent cette démarche. Il proposera aussi des solutions exhaustives d’évaluation de la prévention et de la réduction des déchets alimentaires en collaborant dans le cadre des actions de recherche et de développement actuelles.

Objectif

Food waste is a major problem: around 88 million tonnes of food is wasted annually along the EU supply chain, from primary production to consumption, with associated costs of €143 billion. The associated environmental impact is also huge: global food loss and waste is equivalent to 8-10% of total anthropogenic GHG emissions and costs around $1 trillion per year, and 30% of agricultural land is wasted. The situation may be even worse, as statistics indicate that 70% of all food lost or wasted by humans may be unrecorded because it originates from primary production or is used as animal feed. In parallel, the assessment of this problem remains unresolved, not only because it is extremely complex due to the lack of open access data and the absence of a standard methodology for comprehensive assessment in real food systems, but also because it affects the commitment of private entities that need to assess the cost-effectiveness and sustainability of food waste prevention and reduction (FWPR) solutions in order to act. ToNoWaste is a 48-month project in which 21 institutions from 7 countries collaborate to overcome this challenge with a multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary approach that considers not only agronomic, economic, environmental and business model challenges, but also other cross-cutting aspects such as psychology, law and social innovation to fight also against gender and social inequalities. ToNoWaste will inspire market actors to use science and evidence-based assessment tools and data to make better decisions towards more sustainable food production and consumption patterns. It starts from research on what makes the best decision regarding FWPR actions in the fresh food value chain. It is an open innovation ecosystem designed to leverage previous findings for the identification of social, technical/environmental, economic, political/legal, ethical and demographic drivers and to collaborate with ongoing R&D actions to propose comprehensive FWPR solutions

Coordinateur

UNIVERSITAT JAUME I DE CASTELLON
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 720 540,00
Adresse
AVENIDA VICENT SOS BAYNAT S/N
12006 Castellon De La Plana
Espagne

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Région
Este Comunitat Valenciana Castellón/Castelló
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 720 540,00

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