Description

A conference on food waste is organised by the professional Business for Society platform as part of the “Food Help” programme.

 

The conference is a follow-up to the two previous conferences on food waste which aimed to highlight the burning ethical, social and environmental issue of food waste, which results in a loss of money, waste of human labour, resources depletion and other environmental impacts.  

 

This year’s conference will deal with practical issues related to the prevention of food waste, strengthening the redistribution of food surpluses, and the latest findings in quantifying food waste.

 

The conference targets representatives of retailers and suppliers, experts, high-level government officials, researches and practitioners from the Czech Republic and abroad. It aims at providing a platform for the exchange of know-how and best practices in preventing and combating food waste.

 

Another aim of the Prague meeting is to provide an inspiration to neighbouring countries from Central and Eastern Europe, where the issue of food waste is not currently a topic of discussion. Furthermore, the conference intends to inspire more research and systematic data collection as important tools in the process for developing effective policies and measures that will make it possible to tackle the issue of food waste.

 

Working language of the conference is English and Czech. Simultaneous interpreting will be provided.

 

 

 

DRAFT PROGRAMME

 

 

 

 

8:30

 

REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS

 

 

 

9:00 – 9:15

 

CHAIR’S WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

 

 

 

Pavlína Kalousová, Chairman, Business for Society, Czech Republic

 

EU Fusions

 

the Ministry of the Environment

 

 

 

9:15 – 10:00

 

FOOD WASTE QUANTIFICATION

 

 

 

Moderator: Pavlína Kalousová

 

New findings in quantification of food waste across EU-28, Hilke Bos-Brouwers, EU Fusions

 

WRAP – Waste & Resources Action Programme, Great Britain tbc

 

Results of a survey on food waste in the Czech Republic, Tomáš Macků, Research & Communication Director, Ipsos, Czech Republic

 

Technology Centre ASCR

 

 

 

10:00 – 10:30              

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

 

10:30 – 11:30

 

THE LOCAL APPROACH TO FOOD WASTE – STATE

 

 

 

Moderator: Pavlína Kalousová

 

The Ministry of Agriculture, Czech Republic

 

Jan Maršák, the Ministry of the Environment, Czech Republic

 

The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Czech Republic tbc

 

Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority, Czech Republic

 

The Czech Environmental Inspectorate, Czech Republic tbc

 

 

 

11:30 – 12:30  

 

THE LOCAL APPROACH TO FOOD WASTE – COMPANIES

 

 

 

Moderator: Pavlína Kalousová

 

Tesco Stores, Czech Republic

 

Tomáš Martoch, ECR Coordinator, Czech Republic

 

Sodexo, Czech Republic

 

 

 

12:30 – 13:30              

 

LUNCH

 

 

 

13:30 – 14:45              

 

BEST FOREIGN PRACTICES

 

 

 

Sarah Bromley, WRAP – Waste & Resources Action Programme, Great Britain

 

Leila Oppermann, Food Surplus Entrepreneurs Network, Germany

 

Feedback, Great Britain tbc

 

Cornelia Diesenreiter, Zero Waste Jam, Austria

 

 

 

14:45 – 16:00

 

WORKSHOP: Prevention and reduction of food waste in the Czech Republic – challenges and solutions (moderátor: Silvia Gaiani, University of Bologna, Italy)

 

 

 

16:00 – 16:30  

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

 

16:30 – 17:30  

 

BEST LOCAL PRACTICES

 

 

 

Věra Doušová, Czech federation of food banks, Czech Republic

 

The National Food Collection Day, Pavlína Kalousová, Chairman, Business for Society, Czech Republic

 

 

 

17:30 – 18:00

 

CLOSING PLENARY (Pavlína Kalousová, Silvia Gaiani)