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Learn more about food loss
As you’ve heard throughout this course, the FOLOU project is working to bring knowledge and consensus to prevent and reduce food loss at the primary production stage. We aim to:
- measure and estimate food losses at primary production stage, encompassing agriculture, aquaculture, and fisheries;
- monitor and report food losses at EU Member States and European levels;
- assess the magnitude and impact of food losses, and identify its key drivers.
We are also developing more specialist courses on many of the topics covered in this introductory course including:
| Measuring food loss: implementing the FOLOU methodology | Presents the framework, methods and tools available to develop a food loss inventory, along with a repository and reporting processes |
| Technological innovation in food loss measurement and estimation | Outlines current and innovative technologies and their potential application in food loss reduction |
| Food loss sustainability implications | Instils greater understand of the need to measure, evaluate and minimise food loss through the use of the FOLOU sustainability tool |
| Integrating food loss into policy and decision-making | Supports the integration of food loss considerations in policy and decision-making at local, regional and national levels |
Keep checking the FOLOU website (where you can sign up to our newsletter) and follow us on LinkedIn for updates about these learning opportunities and our ongoing research.
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