8th FLW Workshop, October 2024, Brazil

In cooperation with our colleagues from Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development (MDS), UN Environmental Program (UNEP), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Global Research Alliance (GRA), National Agricultural Technology Institute Argentina (INTA) and experienced local consultants we organised the 8th Regional FLW workshop from October 22 to 24, 2024 in Brasilia/Brazil. Funding was provided by the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) through the bilateral Alliance for the Climate, called AgriDENZ.

Our 180 participants represented 17 countries and stakeholders like businesses, associations, national and international NGOs, national, regional and local government, research organisations, consultants, foundations and United Nations Organisations.

The program overview is provided here as well as the detailed program in English and Portuguese. The program included five plenary sessions (October 22-23), four working group sessions (October 23), an exhibition (October 22-23) and an excursion (October 24). The presentations and posters which were given during the workshop can be found in the following - please be aware that the documents are offered in different languages which are English, Spanish or Portuguese according to the speakers´ preference.

The workshop summary is available in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

October 22^nd, 2024
09:00 - 09:30	Registration and welcome coffee
09:30 - 10:00	Opening ceremony Silvia Maria Fonseca Silveira Massruhá (President of Embrapa, Brazil) Chanjief Chandrakumar (Global Research Alliance, New Zealand) Beatriz Martins Carneiro (UNEP) Jorge Alberto Meza Robayo (FAO Brazil) Osman Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior (Executive Secretary of Ministry of Social Development, Brazil) Eduardo Santos (Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Brazil) Martin Banse (Thünen Institute of Market Analysis, Germany) Group photo
10:00 - 12:00	Session 1 - Multistakeholder Initiatives for food losses and waste mitigation/Iniciativas multissetoriais para mitigação de perdas e desperdícios de alimentos Chairperson: Gustavo Porpino (Embrapa Foods and Terretories, Brazil) .) Intersectoral Strategy for Reducing Food Losses and Waste in Brazil/II Estratégia Intersetorial para a Redução de Perdas e Desperdício de Alimentos no Brasil by Carmem Priscila Bocchi (Brazilian Ministry of Social Development, MDS) .) Networking and Cooperation: the case of the Costa Rican FLW Network/Redes y cooperación: Pérdida y Desperdicio de Alimentos en Costa Rica by Laura Brenes (Technológico de Costa Rica) .) Argentine Plan to Reduce FLW: a multistakeholer action/Plan Nacional de Reducción de Pérdidas y Desperdicio de Alimentos by Mariana Brkic (Argentine Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries)
12:00 - 01:30	Lunch by SESC Mesa Brasil
01:30 - 03:45	Session 2 - Social and disruptive innovations for FLW mitigation/Inovações sociais e disruptivas para mitigação de perdas e desperdícios de alimentos Chairperson: Nicol Barahona (FAO Americas) .) Artificial Intelligence in Fresh Food Management: More Sales and Less Losses for Supermarkets/Inteligência Artificial na gestão de Alimentos Frescos: Mais Vendas e Menos Perdas para os Supermercados by Marco Perlman (Aravita, Brazil) .) The role of food banks on FW mitigation/El papel de los bancos de alimentos en la mitigación del desperdicio alimentario by Alicia Guevara (Quito Food banking, Ecuador) .) Promoting innovations to fight both hunger and food waste/Promovendo Inovações para o combate à fome e ao Desperdício by Maria Siqueira (Pacto contra a fome, Brazil) .) Social innovation in practice, the case of Mexico/En México La Comida No Se Tira by Claudia Sanchez (Pacto por la Comida, Mexico)
03:45 - 04:45	Session 3 - Delivering Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 in Cities/Implementação do Objetivo de Desenvolvimento Sustentável 12.3 nas Cidades chairperson: Beatriz Martins Carneiro (UNEP) .) UNEP Food Waste Index - Tracking Food Waste in Cities/Índice de Desperdício de Alimentos do PNUMA e Desperdício de Alimentos nas Cidades by Clementine O´Connor (UNEP, France) .) Food waste management in cities/Gestão de resíduos de alimentos nas cidades by Carlos Silva Filho (Instituto PNRS, Brazil) .) Valorization of organic waste: the case of Florianópolis/Valorização dos resíduos orgânicos: o caso de Florianópolis by Karina Souza (Municipality of Florianópolis, Brazil) .) Food Waste Prevention in Cities - ways forward in Rio de Janeiro/Prevenção do Desperdício de Alimentos nas Cidades - Caminhos a Seguir no Rio de Janeiro by Eliana Cacique (Secretary of Environment of Rio de Janeiro)
04:45 - 05:00	Summary comments and closing remarks day 1/Comentários resumidos e considerações finais dia 1 Gustavo Porpino (Embrapa Foods and Terretories, Brazil) & Felicitas Schneider (Thünen Institute of Market Analysis, Germany)
05:00 -	Happy hour for networking and refreshments/Happy hour para networking e refrescos by SESC Mesa Brasil
October 23^th, 2024
09:00 - 10:15	Session 4 - Policy frameworks for FLW reduction/Quadros de políticas para redução de PDA chairperson: Elizabeth Kleiman (FAO Argentina) .) Policies to Fight Hunger and Food Waste in the LAC Region/Políticas de Combate à Fome e ao Desperdício de Alimentos na Região da ALC by Emily Broad Leib (Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, USA) .) OECD stocktaking of FLW policies: Key findings and overview of the situation in LAC countries/Balanço da OCDE sobre as políticas de FLW: Principais conclusões e visão geral da situação nos países da ALC byCéline Giner (OECD France) & Rachel Collie (Sustainable Development Solutions Network, The Bahamas) .) National Strategy for the Prevention and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste in Uruguay/Estrategia Nacional para la Prevención y Reducción de las Pérdidas y Desperdicios de Alimentos de Uruguay by Chiara Fioretto (Ministry of Environment, Uruguay) .) Opportunities for implementation of the Voluntary Code of Conduct for Reducing FLW/Oportunidades de aplicación del Código de Conducta Voluntario para la Reducción de las Pérdidas y el Desperdicio de Alimentos by Manuela Cuvi (FAO)
10:15 - 12:00	Session 5 - How food waste mitigation can help tackling the climate crisis/Como a mitigação do desperdício de alimentos pode ajudar a enfrentar a crise climática chairpersons: Chanjief Chandrakumar (GRA, New Zealand) & Clementine O´Connor (UNEP, France) .) Food Waste and new NDCs: Why food waste mitigation can help tackling the climate crisis?/Desperdício de alimentos e novas NDCs: Por que a mitigação do desperdício de alimentos pode ajudar a enfrentar a crise climática? by Carolina Urmeneta (Global Methane Hub, Chile) .) Linking actions on climate change with food loss and waste reduction/Ligar as ações sobre as alterações climáticas com a redução da perda e do desperdício de alimentos by Richard Swannell (WRAP, UK) .) How food waste mitigation can help tackling the climate crisis/Como a mitigação do desperdício de alimentos pode ajudar a enfrentar a crise climática by María Teresa García Plata (Global Foodbanking Network, GFBN, Mexico) .) Integrated Food Waste Management in Quito: A Multidimensional Approach/Gestão Integrada de Resíduos Alimentares em Quito: Uma Abordagem Multidimensional by Xavier Oña-Serrano & Oswaldo Viteri-Salazar (Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador)
12:00 - 01:30	Lunch by SESC Mesa Brasil
01:30 - 03:00	Parallel sessions 1/Sessões paralelas 1 Working Group 1: Farm level losses/Perdas ao nível da exploração agrícola facilitators: Gilmar Henz and Murillo Freire (Embrapa, Brazil), Nicol Barahona (FAO Chile), Marcus Vinicius (Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture) Working Group 2: Consumer food waste/Desperdício de alimentos do consumidor facilitators: Gustavo Porpino (Embrapa, Brazil), Clementine O´Connor (UNEP, France), Richard Swannell, Michael Jones, Carolina Fernandez & Erin McCluskey (WRAP, UK)
03:00 - 03:15	Changing of working groups
03:15 - 04:45	Parallel sessions 2/Sessões paralelas 2 Working Group 3: Retail and hospitality food waste/Desperdício de alimentos no varejo e na hospitalidade facilitators: Natalia Basso (consultant, Argentina), Felicitas Schneider (Thünen, Germany), Richard Swannell, Michael Jones, Carolina Fernandez & Erin McCluskey (WRAP, UK) Working Group 4: Developing policies/Desenvolvimento de políticas facilitators: Emily Broad Leib (Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, USA), Gustavo Alves (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Brazil)
04:45 - 05:15	Plenary summary of working group results and closing remarks/Resumo plenário dos resultados do grupo de trabalho e observações finais
05:15 -	Happy hour for networking and refreshments/Happy hour para networking e refrescosby SESC Mesa Brasil
October 24^th, 2024
09:00 - 16:00	Field Visit SESC Mesa Brasil and agroecological cooperative
The Exhibition - the posters/A Exposição - os cartazes(October 22 - 23, 2024)
	Collaboration Initiative Food Loss and Waste by Felicitas Schneider (Thünen Institute, Germany) Characterization of Food Losses in Agro-food Companies according to size in Argentina/Caracterização das perdas alimentares em empresas agroalimentares segundo o porte na Argentina by Paula Gomez & Natalia Basso (Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Argentina) Latin American Working Group on Fruit and Vegetable Loss and Waste (GLAPDFYH)/Grupo Latinoamericano de Trabajosobre Pérdida y Desperdicio de Frutas y Hortalizas (GLAPDFYH) by Marcela Leal (consultant, Argentina) Food Waste in Urban Households of the Argentine Republic/Desperdício de alimentos em domicílios urbanos da República Argentina by Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Argentina Pact against Hunger/Pacto Contra A Fome by Pacto contra a fome, Brazil Monitoring of food and beverage waste in the retail sector in Argentina/Monitoramento de resíduos de alimentos e bebidas no setor varejista na Argentina by GS1 Argentina and Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Argentina Sustainable homes: An Approach to understanding and motivating pro-environmental behaviour/Casas sustentáveis: uma abordagem para compreender e motivar o comportamento pró-ambiental by Christiam Méndez (University of Lima, Peru) Revisiting Food Waste in Low-Income Households: Evidence from Chile/Revisitando o desperdício de alimentos em domicílios de baixa renda: evidências do Chile by María Isabel Sactic & Andrés Silva (Universidad San Sebastián, Chile) Food Bank Program of State of Maranhão/Atividades do Banco de Alimentos do Maranhão by Ingrid Elizabeth Maia Aranha Damasceno & Fatiana Diniz Araujo Belfort (Banco de Alimentos do Maranhão, Brazil)

Registration in progress on the first day of the workshop.

Registration process and hand out of workshop bags on the first day of the workshop.

Participants from Argentina, Germany, Brazil, Australia and Mexico arrive at the venue.

Embrapa exhibition stall with information broschures prior to workshop opening.

Final meeting of UNEP participants prior to the opening session.

Participants from UK and Mexico share knowledge on FLW.

Preparation of the SESC Mesa Brasil booth at the exhibition before the workshop starts.

Getting in contact and reconnecting before the workshop starts.

Networking among participants before the opening ceremony.

Opening panel at the Regional Workshop on Food Loss and Waste Prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ms Silvia Maria Fonseca Silveira Massruhá (President of Embrapa, Brazil) welcomes the participants in the opening ceremony.

Mr Chanjief Chandrakumar welcomes the participants on behalf of the Ministry of Primary Industries as funding entity and Global Research Alliance, both from New Zealand.

Ms Carmem Priscila Bocchi from Ministry of Social Development (MDS) in Brazil follows the opening.

Ms Beatriz Martins Carneiro from UNEP highlights the impact of FLW on the environment.

Participants from different LAC countries joining the session.

International participants listen to the presentations.

Mr Jorge Alberto Meza Robayo welcomes the participants on behalf of FAO Brazil.

Osman Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior from the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development welcomed the participants in the opening ceremony.

Mr Eduardo Santos representing the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (Brazil) in the opening session.

Flower decoration at the Regional Workshop venue.

Participants appreciate the speeches of the opening session.

Mr Martin Banse closes the opening with a warm welcome on behalf of Thünen Institute and the Collaboration Initiative Food Loss and Waste (Germany).

Embrapa president Ms Silvia Massruhá receives the Memorandum of Understanding between Embrapa and Thünen Institute from Martin Banse, director of Thünen Institute of Market Analysis, in the opening ceremony.

The Memorandum of Understanding will facilitate further cooperation between Embrapa and Thünen Institute.

Participants from various LAC countries watching the sessions.

Family photo of the high-level guest and the organising team after the opening ceremony.

Family photo with all participants on the first workshop day.

The panel of session 1 chaired by Dr Gustavo Porpino (Embrapa).

Networking among Ministry of Environment (Brazil), Global Methan Hub, and UNEP

Session 2 family photo of Nicol Barahona (chair, FAO Americas) and the presenters from Brazil, Ecuador and Mexico.

Tasty zero waste lunch provided by SESC Mesa Brasil to the workshop participants.

Discussions after each session facilitated further exchange.

Workshop participants listening to presentations.

Family photo of session 3 presenters chaired by UNEP.

Ms Felicitas Schneider summarised the first day of the workshop.

Part of the workshop organisation team after day 1.

Mr Gustavo Porpino (Embrapa, Brazil) provides organisational support to Mr Richard Swannell (WRAP, UK).

The participants represented actors accross the food supply chain and various LAC countries.

Delafinca Nicaraguan Specialty Coffee presenting tasty products made from by-product of their coffee production.

Questions and remarks raised by the World Food Programme, Peru.

Exhibition and lunch break area at the Regional Workshop on Food Loss and Waste prevention in LAC region at Embrapa headquarter.

Panel of session 4 chaired by Ms Elizabeth Kleiman (FAO Argentina) ready to answer questions from the audience.

Workshop participants listening to the questions from the audience.

Family photo of session 4 presenters from Uruguay, USA, Argentina, Chile and The Bahamas - OECD presented online.

Session 5 starts with a comment provided by co-chair Ms. Clementine O´Connor from UNEP.

Comments after the panel presentations by the representative of the Brazilian Federal Senate.

Workshop participants looking forward to the next presentation.

Instituto Fome Zero from Brazil makes comments to the shared information.

Representatives from FAO Rome following the shared presentations.

Group photo of chair persons and presenters of Session 5 at the Regional Workshop FLW prevention.

Our interpreters provided translation from and to Portuguese, Spanish, English and sign language.

SESC Mesa Brasil sponsored the delicious zero waste food for lunch and Happy Hour! — SESC Mesa Brasil sponsored the delicious zero waste food for lunch and Happy Hours!

A subgroup of working group 1 proudly presents their outputs collected via flip charts.

Subgroup of working group 2 discussing consumer food waste facilitated by Gustavo Porpino (Embrapa).

Subgroup of working group 2 discussing consumer food waste facilitated by Richard Swannell (WRAP, UK).

Subgroup of working group 3 discussing retail and food service food waste facilitated by Natalia Basso (consultant, Argentina).

Ms Erin McCluskey (WRAP, UK) facilitates a working group 3 subgroup.

Ms Nicol Barahona (FAO Chile) summarises the findings of working group 1 for the plenary.

Still energy for asking questions from the audience on day 2 of the workshop.

Priscila Bocchi (MDS, Brazil), Gustavo Porpino (Embrapa) and Martin Banse (Thünen Institute) providing the closing remarks of the workshop.

Satisfied faces of our participants at the end of the workshop.

A big thank you to Mr Gustavo Porpino (Embrapa, Brazil) for his support is submitted by Mr Martin Banse (Thünen, Germany).

The support provided by SESC Mesa Brasil was very well received by the organisers.

The workshop would not have been possible without the financial support of the New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries and the GRA.

Mr Gustavo Porpino (Embrapa, Brazil) summarises the workshop outcomes together with Ms Carmem Priscila Bocchi (Ministry of Social Development, Brazil) and Mr Martin Banse (Thünen, Germany).

Two SESC Mesa Brasil staff members waiting to serve zero waste snacks and healthy drinks during the excursion.

Tasty Australian bread sandwich with banana peel meat provided by SESC Mesa Brasil during the excursion to their headquarter.

Delicious apple cake with seeds, stem and peel provided by SESC Mesa Brasil during the visit at their headquarter.

Products manufactured by SESC Mesa Brasil clients as additional income source to facilitate their manifold activities.

Nuno Madeira (Embrapa Vegetables) explains the cooperation with Associação dos Produtores Agroecológicos do Alto São Bartolomeu and the benefits of their work.

We also visited the Associação dos Produtores Agroecológicos do Alto São Bartolomeu and received interesting information on local produce and its value.

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