Project description
Making better decisions for more sustainable food production and consumption patterns
About 88 million tonnes of food are wasted across the entire EU supply chain every year. Assessing the economic, environmental and social impacts of this major issue is difficult for several reasons. The EU-funded ToNoWaste project aims to implement a multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary assessment approach that takes into account agronomic, economic, environmental and business model challenges, as well as psychology, law and social innovation aspects. The project will conduct research and use past findings to identify social, technical, environmental, economic, political, legal, ethical and demographic drivers and hindrances. It will also propose thorough food waste prevention and reduction assessment solutions by working together with current research and development actions.
Objective
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
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Participants (20)
1010 Wien
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48007 Bilbao
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0313 Oslo
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6708 PB Wageningen
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SE- 80176 Gavle
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3700-121 SAO JOAO DE MADEIRA
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48230 Elorrio
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31192 Mutilva Alta Navarra
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8665 Langenwang
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46002 Valencia
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46013 Valencia
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12005 CASTELLON DE LA PLANA
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46001 Valencia
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8010 Graz
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1160 Wien
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8052 Graz
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1030 WIEN
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4050 Traun
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821 80 Bollnas
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15234 Halandri
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