Climate change. Food insecurity. A fragile global food system. All these challenges are worsened by food loss and waste.
WP1 in the ZeroW project is working to develop a high-level economic model encompassing the food supply chain actors. Here you can read about the progress and the scope for the model..
According to the cluster organization and ZeroW-project partner ASINCAR, prevention and reduction of food waste (FLW) is at the top of industrial agendas within the meat industry.
In late June, ZeroW partners joined forces in Brussels to present and discuss the progress on the FLW innovation that is going on all over Europe as part of this project.
The 0FLW Dataspace is a decentralized infrastructure for trustworthy data sharing and exchange in data ecosystems based on commonly agreed principles.
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Join the ZeroFLW Business Ecosystem for organisations with commercial insight who are interested in discussing and supporting spin-offs, innovative ideas, and business opportunities related to FLW.
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Lorraine Foley is a Lecturer in Environmental Management at Technological University Dublin and Principal Investigator for the Leaf No Waste project.
Eliza Gambuzzi is a R&D Technician working with the HOOP project to vitalise Europe's urban bioeconomy. Here, she talks about how unavoidable food loss and waste is the basis for a sustainable circular bio economy.
ZeroW-Hero Oltion Shena is the founder of Feeding Albania, a community of organisations that fights poverty and hunger in Albania through e.g. food banks and redirecting food to people in need.
Shai has dedicated the last 8 years to making the issue of food waste accessible and delicious - through culinary and educational activities, including founding Israel's first social restaurant based on rescued food!
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🌱🤖🍅 Love tomatoes and hate food waste?
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Here’s how computer-vision-based systems can reduce food waste in greenhouse-grown tomato production - in this Living Lab project by ZeroW!
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The ZeroW project was launched to help the transition of current food systems
ZeroW is an EU project funded under the Green Deal call of the Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement no. 101036388). 46 partners across Europe are working together to find new and innovative ways to reduce food loss and waste.
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...one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally. The ZeroW project is now launching to help the transition of current food systems towards halving Food Loss & Waste (FLW) by 2030 and reaching a near-zero level by 2050.
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