Food Waste - progress on ending food waste and food insecurity

End Food Waste Australia is committed to creating a more productive, sustainable, and resilient Australian food system by ending food waste and food insecurity. This presentation will outline how.

End Food Waste Australia, formally the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre & Stop Food Waste Australia, is Australia’s lead agency charged with halving food waste by 2030, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12.3. It has fostered unprecedented collaborations with more than 100 industry, government, and research partners over its first 5 years. The public-private partnership has driven Australia’s most extensive research on consumer food waste behaviours, pioneered transformative technologies for repurposing and creating value out of unavoidable food waste, established evidence-based food waste reduction best practices, and led collaborative industry food waste action through the Australian Food Pact and Sector Action Plans. EFWA is committed to creating a more productive, sustainable, and resilient Australian food system by ending food waste and food insecurity. 

Dr Steven Lapidge is the creator and CEO of End Food Waste Australia, which incorporates the former Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre and Stop Food Waste Australia. From its commencement in 2018 the organisation has grown into one of the world’s largest public private partnerships solely dedicated to ending food waste and food insecurity and involves over 100 industry, government and university partners. The organisation is the lead agency in Australia’s fight to halve food waste by 2030, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12.3. Steve’s qualifications include a PhD and MBA. He is a member of the eminent Champions 12.3 coalition, a Fulbright Professional Business/Industry Fellow, a Fellow of the Governors Leadership Foundation Program and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is Professional Member and former Non-Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology and a current Non-Executive Director of WRAP Asia-Pacific. His career has focused on industry-based science and commercialisation across the wildlife, agrifood and sustainability fields.