Commitments on FLW Prevention and Reduction:

Call for action and coordination

Sara GranadosRegional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean

I. INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL, CORPORATIVE, DOMESTIC COMMITMENT

International, Regional, Corporative, Domestic Commitment

International, Regional, Corporativeand Domestic Commitments

International, Regional, Corporativeand Domestic Commitments

International, Regional, Corporative, Domestic Commitment

International, Regional, Corporative, Domestic Commitment

Regional Alliance for the Prevention and Reduction of FLW

II. CALL 4 COORDINATED ACTIONS

• New strategies and approaches are needed to reduce food losses and waste, especially due to the rapidly changing nature of agri-food systems and rapid urbanization”.

• Given these changes, intervention strategies need to focus on systematic improvements to the efficiency and sustainability of the entire supply chain rather than the single point interventions of the past.

Call 4 coordinated actions

Public and Private

Partnerships

SAVE FOOD Global Initiative / TechnicalPlatform G20

Legal and InstitutionalFrameworks

France Anti-waste Law / National Law Projects /

Technical Standars / National Committees

Activism and Entrepreneur

ship

B-Enterprices / FoodBanking / R&D

PAÍS LEGISLACIÓN POLÍTICASPÚBLICASArgentina · ResoluciónMinisterialNº392-2015delMinisteriode

Agricultura,GanaderíayPesca(actualMinisteriode

Agroindustria).

· Proyecto de Ley Nº 3484-S-2015 (Creación delPrograma Nacional para Disminuir la Pérdida y

DesperdiciosdeAlimentos).

· ProyectodeLey0480-D-2016,de9demarzode2016,Ley Anti-desperdicios de Alimentos (Cámara de

Diputados).

· ProyectodeLey0953-S-2016,de6deabrilde2016.

· ProgramaNacionaldeReduccióndePérdidayDesperdiciodeAlimentos.

· Programa Nacional de Agroindustria yAgregadodeValor.

Brasil Senado:

· ProyectodeLeyNº5958/2013,de12dejuliode2013.

· ProyectodeLeyNº672/2015,de6deoctubrede2015,quedisponesobrelareduccióndedesperdiciosdealimentos.

· ProyectodeLeyNº675/2015,de7deoctubrede2015, Establece PolíticaNacional deCombate deDesperdiciodeAlimentosyotrasprovidencias.

· ProyectodeLeyNº738/2015,de11denoviembrede2015.

CámaradeDiputados:

· ProyectodeLeyNº5413/2013,de18deabrilde2013.

· ProyectodeLeyNº3070/2015,de22deseptiembrede2015.

· Políticas de Seguridad Alimentaria yNutricional.

· ConjuntodeProgramas“HambreCero”.

III. PROGRESS ON LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS IN LAC: MATRIX IN CONSTRUCTION

- MEXICO: Ley de Almacenamiento Rural- PARLATINO: Propuesta de Ley Marco- CARICOM?

CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

• Currently in the Region, the trend in terms of legal and regulatory initiatives points to the reduction, rather than to the prevention of PDAs – CHALLENGES in terms of PREVENTION

• International anti-WASTE legislation promoted mainly by France has generated responses in the LAC countries. CHALLENGES ADAPTING INTERNATIONAL PROGRESS AND INNOVATIONS TO OUR CONTEXT

• The countries with advances integrating public policy and bills are: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica – OPPORTUNITIES FOR COOPERATION

IV. PROVIDING THE NECESSARY INSTITUTIONALITY: National Committees

National committees are intersectorial, multistakeholders platforms, where all members are involved in as actors of the Food System as:

• Ministries and other State Institutions

• Academy

• Food Networks

• Food Industry

• Producers/Farmers Associations

• Consumer Associations

• Civil Society Organizations

• FAO Representation

• National Expert – Member of the Regional Network of FLW experts

PROVIDING THE NECESSARY INSTITUTIONALITY: National Committees

Functions of the National Committee for the Reduction of Food Losses and Waste:

• Promote the development of an action plan to prevent and reduce FLW

• Quantify, assess and monitor FLW in the main national value chains.

• Establish and promote cooperation agreements, public and private partnershipsfor innovation and technology and awarness.

• Facilitate the experiencies exchange and lessons learned on FLW prevention and reduction at territorial, national and regional level.

• Promote the open dialogue between all the stakeholders looking forward todevelop policy guidelines for FLW management.

V. NEXT STEPS…..

Construction of baselines for causes and impacts of FLW

Promote the institutionalization of the intersectorial National Committee,with public and non-public actors, as well as their institutionalizationthrough guidelines of technical standards.

Establish public-private partnerships for the development of innovationand technology for the prevention and reduction of FLW.

Linking the parliamentary fronts and other public and non-public actorsto push for bills that aim at the prevention of FLW.

More involment and coordination in the framework of the RegionalAlliance, continuing with the awarness campaigns, capacity development,research and development

“The city of Leonia refashions itself every day…

It is not so much by the things that each day are manufactured, sold, bought, that you can measure Leonia's opulence, but rather by the things that each day are thrown out to make room for the new.

So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really , as they say, the enjoyment of new things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity. ..

Besides, the more Leonia’s talent for making new materials excels, the more the rubbish improves in quality, resists time, the elements, fermentations, combustions. A fortress of indestructible leftovers and waste surrounds Leonia, dominating it on every side, like a chain of mountains…. “

THE INVISIBLE CITIES, Italo Calvino

Thank you!CONTACT:RLC-PDA@fao.org

We all are change agents here!!!Is a huge challenge, but a worthone