Presented as part of the Side Event at CFS 41: "Collaboration-Led Waste Reduction: From Producer to Consumer". In Sweden, Government policy supporting collaborations intended to reduce food waste and production losses has been a great success. In part, due to the specific policy for Global Development (PGD) which supports the creation of platforms for knowledge exchange and multi-sectoral collaboration. This side event will present a number of examples of this policy-led collaboration from the Swedish context relating to the reduction of food waste and production losses throughout the whole food chain, on a global scale. http://www.siani.se/event/foodwaste_cfs41

1. siani.se
Collaboration-led Waste Reduction
from Consumer to Producer
Mathilda Åberg –Ministry of Rural Affairs
Ulrika Francke – Swedish Board for Agriculture
Katarina Eriksson – Tetra Laval
Maina Gakuru – We effect
Mats Åberg – Sida
Moderator : Madeleine Fogde SIANI
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2. FOOD WASTE PER CAPITA(kg/year)
Source Östergren SIK 2014

3. siani.se
Collaboration-led Waste Reduction
from Consumer to Producer
Mathilda Åberg –Ministry of Rural Affairs
Ulrika Francke – Swedish Board for Agriculture
Katarina Eriksson – Tetra Laval
Maina Gakuru – We effect
Mats Åberg – Sida
Moderator : Madeleine Fogde SIANI
www.siani.se #sverigeivarlden

4. 2014-10-24
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Swedish strategies to prevent food waste
Ulrika Franke
Climate division
Swedish board of Agriculture
ulrika.franke@jordbruksverket.se

5. 2014-10-24
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Food waste in Sweden 2012

6. 2014-10-24
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National targets for food waste
Proposed milestone target for food waste:
“The food waste will by 2020 be reduced by at least 20%, compared to 2010,
overall for the entire food chain, except primary production. In primary
production an action plan to reduce the production losses should be set up by
2016.”
Milestone target to utilise energy from food waste:
“Measures must be taken by 2018 so that at least 50 percent of food waste from
households, shops and restaurants is sorted out and treated biologically so that
nutrients are utilized, and at least 40 percent of food waste is treated so that the
energy is recovered.”

7. 2014-10-24
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Government commission 2013-2015
Cooperation between three national
authorities
- Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
- National Food Agency in Sweden
- Swedish Board of Agriculture

8. 2014-10-24
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Approach
• Mapping of waste amounts
and causes
• Analysing legal frameworks from a
food waste perspective
• Development of our network for
food waste prevention
• Implementation of a consumer
campaign

9. 2014-10-24
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Implemented activities & surveys
• Litterature study - what has been done in Northern
Europe?
• Primary production: Quantities and causes (beef and
lettuce)
• Marketing & quality standards: Fish, Fruit and vegetables
• Food industry: Causes and Solutions incl. effects and
costs
• Retail: Possible measures incl. effects and costs
• Consumers survey: Attitudes and behavior
• Liquid food waste: Measuring methods and amounts
• Decreased temperature in the cold chain
• Microbiological analysis of food at expiry date (pilot)

10. 2014-10-24
New study:
Food and drink rinsed down the drain
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• 224 000 tons per year
• 26 kg per person and
year

11. 2014-10-24
National network for food waste prevention
Members are national authorities, retail and whole
sale sector, researchers, municipalities, food companies,
Swedish grocers federation, consumer organisations, the
association of Swedish Waste Management, The
Federation of Swedish Farmers, Swedish hospitality
industry, member of European Parliament etc…
Exchange information
Arranges workshops and seminars
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12. 2014-10-24
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Consumer survey on food waste

13. 2014-10-24
Respondents about food waste
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A big problem, but not a problem
for me
Feel responsibility
Moral and economic arguments
Resulted in a national consumer
campaign towards households 2014

14. 2014-10-24
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Projects under Nordic Council of
Ministers
• Definitions and methods to measure losses and waste
• Prevention of food waste in the retail and wholesale sector
• Guidelines for hotels, restaurants, canteens
• Literature study – food losses in primary production
• Data collection of food waste in primary production
• Date labelling – a comparison between Nordic countries
• Food Banks – Nordic conditions
• Nordic feeding events

15. 2014-10-24
Feeding events in all five Nordic countries
in 2014
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16. 2014-10-24
Losses and waste in primary production
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400 000 tonnes of primary products
that never left the farm was produced
at Swedish farms in 2012
Productions losses from >1% to 30%
http://www.norden.org/sv/publikationer/publikationer/2013-581

17. 2014-10-24
Stop wasting!
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Thank you for your attention!
ulrika.franke@jordbruksverket.se