Concertation Indépendante
Cible géographique:
Chine, Sans cible géographique
Major focus
In this dialogue, our approach was to explore how behavioral insights can be used to address the challenges of food waste. Food waste reduction offers multi-faceted wins for people and planet, improving food security, addressing climate change, saving money and reducing pressures on land, water, biodiversity and waste management systems. UNEP’s food waste index report estimates that around 931 million tons of food waste was generated in 2019, 61 per cent of which came from households, 26 per cent from food service and 13 per cent from retail. In China, the topic of food waste in the country
... Lire la suitehas gained increasing political and public attention. China launched a Clean Plate Campaign in August 2020 that encouraged citizens to order less food at restaurants and to eat everything on their plates in order to reduce food waste. Building on the momentum, in April 2021 China’s National People's Congress passed the new ‘Anti-Food Waste Law’, which marks another important milestone in China’s continued focus on reducing food waste. In light of this, how can behavior insights accelerate the adoption of solutions and implementation of the law? As actors across the food industry and beyond increasingly recognize the importance of behavior change in the battle to reduce global food waste, behavior scientists and practitioners have identified bright spots that can enable individuals as well as foodservice teams to make the immediate operational changes to reduce waste, while also changing behavior and mindsets to prevent the recurrence of food waste over the long term. However, this dialogue aimed to explore where this work is happening, and where it can be further strengthened. The purpose of the dialogue was to develop a collaborative call to action among stakeholders from across the food chain, identifying current opportunities and challenges in reducing food loss and waste in China and across the world. The guiding topic and vision statement for the breakout groups was: “As part of Sustainable Development Goal 12 there is a need to halve per capita global food waste by 2030 at the retail and consumer level. While the actors and steps required to make this goal achievable are many, through using behavioral insights we can ensure that solutions developed are informed with an understanding of the drivers behind individual behaviors.” Each breakout group explored this same vision statement, although consisted of individuals from different sectors and regions. As such, the challenges explored and solutions raised varied considerably. Using this framing statement, at the start of the dialogue individuals explored the specific problems related to food waste they are trying to address through their work, initially by sharing both problem and target behaviors related to food waste. This was then followed by an opportunity for participants to discuss commonalities, allowing room for participants to surface not only areas that needed greater focus, but also areas for collaboration to overcome common challenges. Lire moins
Piste(s) d'Action: 1, 2, 3
Mots-clés : Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Innovation, Policy