Each year, a substantial amount of food loss is generated at the primary production stage.
This has negative impacts on the society, contributing to food insecurity, depleting the environment, generating avoidable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and creating pressure on land and water. FOLOU will work to overcome these challenges by setting up a mechanism to measure, monitor and assess the magnitude and the impact of food losses.
There are several factors hampering the reduction of food losses. At regulatory level, food losses at primary production stage are currently excluded from the EU Commission Decision (EU) 2019/1597, which sets a common method and minimum quality requirements for the uniform measurement of levels of food waste at the national level. Moreover, at technical and scientific level there is a lack of a common measurement methodology to estimate food losses at the primary stage as well as an insufficient knowledge and understanding of the drivers behind it. Likewise, key stakeholders involved in the value chain often lack the needed skills and tools to efficiently prevent food losses and adopt tailored solutions.
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27.09.2024
Bringing knowledge and consensus to prevent and reduce food loss at the primary production stage
PRESS RELEASE - For immediate release During 4 years, 16 multidisciplinary actors from 10 European countries are joining forces to prevent and {...}
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18.07.2024
FOLOU at the LCA Food 2024 conference
FOLOU hosts a session on "Harmonized methods for Food Loss and Waste LCA" at the international LCA FOOD 2024 conference This special session at {...}
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02.07.2024
Blockchain technology implementation in mussel aquaculture
A working group in the area of data reliability and security at Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM) is working on the design and {...}
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20.06.2024
DACC and BETA TC, representing the FOLOU project, attended the international conference ‘Towards Halving Food Waste in Europe’
On 18 and 19 June 2024 representatives of the BETA Technological Centre and the Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda have attended {...}
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