Winning the fight against food loss and waste

Greenhouse with vegetables, rotten fruit and a trash can full of trash

Conference on "Winning the fight against food loss and waste"

Join the conference on June 10th to help win the fight against food loss and waste! Don't forget to sign up for the event. 

The global challenge of food loss and waste requires innovative solutions and collaborative efforts across the entire food value chain and globe.

That’s why DFC, DVFA and UCPH IFRO have invited international partners from DVFA’s Strategic Sector Cooperation projects around the world to join a DFC learning program on Food Loss and Waste, and to meet with you; fellow experts and colleagues in Denmark and from abroad to discuss, share and find ways to Win the Fight Against Food Loss and Waste. Through presentations and debate, this conference will highlight both Danish and international initiatives and provide a platform to explore practical approaches from across the globe to minimizing food loss and waste while optimizing resource use. The preliminary program can be found below.

The conference is a part of this year’s DFC-course in Sustainable Food Systems: Resource Efficiency, Food Loss and Food Waste (26th May-16th June) hosted by the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO). We hope to bring you and our DFC-fellows together to share experiences, explore possibilities, and collaboratively address one of the most pressing challenges of our time!

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Organizers

  • Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen (KU IFRO)
  • Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (DVFA)
  • Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC)

In collaboration with

  • The Royal Danish Agricultural Society
  • Association of Danish Agricultural Scientists

Preliminary program

Time Activity
10.00-10.10 Welcome by Henning Otte Hansen (IFRO) + DFC & DVFA
10.10-11.15

Speaker 1. Katrine Lundsby and Gudrun Sandø from Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (DVFA).

  • DVFAs work on food loss and waste in Strategic Sector Cooperation with Vietnam and Indonesia, Katrine Lundsby
  • Government policies and initiatives to address food waste, Gudrun Sandø
  • DFC-fellow
11.15-12.00

Speaker 2. Mickey Gerris, Associate professor

Complicating the bloody obvious - Ethical aspects of food waste
12.00-12.45 Break and lunch

12.45-13.30

 Speaker 3. Divine Nganje Njie and Lev Neretin from FAO (Online). Food Loss and Waste – A Global Challenge

13.30-14.10

 Speaker 4. Lea Gry von Cotta-Shønberg, Director of Fødevarebanken (The Danish Food Bank)

14.10-14.35

 Break and coffee

14.35-15.55

Panel debate. Salling Group, OneThird, The Danish Food Bank, two DFC-fellows from Danida courses

“From your organisation’s perspective, what are the two main challenges in relation to reduction of food waste?”

15.55-16.00

Closing remarks