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## The Institute for Social Development and Peace of the UJI participates in a European project to reduce food waste and promote a more sustainable food system

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The loss and waste of food result in the depletion of valuable and limited resources such as water, land, and energy. They significantly contribute to climate change, harm ecosystems and biodiversity, and exacerbate pollution and waste. Meanwhile, nearly 9% of the global population experiences hunger, according to the FAO. For these reasons, raising public awareness is crucial to driving systemic change.

This is the context in which the Horizon Europe project aims to make an impact. PRECIOUS seeks to consolidate existing data and develop a unified, openly accessible assessment framework to measure the economic, environmental, and social impacts of food loss reduction strategies, ultimately enhancing the current food system.

The project involves the participation of the Inter-University Institute for Social Development and Peace (IUDESP) of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló with 18 institutions and entities from eleven European Union countries. In addition, it gives continuity to the HE ToNoWaste project, coordinated by the UJI, with the aim of advancing the results of the sustainability assessment of the food waste reduction strategies already achieved, also addressing the rebound effect and the management of sustainability risks.

The philosophy involving all institutions and entities is to induce a fundamental change in attitudes and behaviours towards food consumption and disposal through collaboration and innovative methods conducive to a fairer and more sustainable food system in the European Union. The aim is to provide a common perspective to achieve a global impact that cannot be achieved by local actions.

The result will be a tool capable of interpreting the cause-effect interaction and optimising the most effective set of prevention actions to mitigate food loss and waste (WLW) by also considering the environmental, social and economic dimensions. Therefore, the methodology is based on a holistic approach that addresses the complex interaction between human behaviour, digital technologies and the infrastructure that encompasses it.

The project will develop two use cases to gather data on the implementation of actions. The first case, set in Greece, will focus on vegetable and fruit products at the companies Rizes and Fonte di Vita. Both firms, which handle high-quality produce, will prioritize waste minimization and implement recovery measures for the waste they generate.

The second use case, based in Spain, will address one of the food sectors with the highest climate impact: the meat industry, specifically beef. The company VEGALSA, a key player in the Spanish meat sector, will standardize tools and protocols to analyze and evaluate food loss and waste across various stages, including the primary production stage.

The strength of the working team is based on the experience gained through previous related projects (such as ToNoWaste and FoodRus), as well as on the diversity of expertise provided by the pool of scientific staff specialised in areas such as sustainability assessment, biodiversity, economics, environment or ICT development, among others. It also has the collaboration of professionals from the agri-food sector and specialists in the dissemination and transfer of knowledge, such as the European network EIT-FOOD.  
The consortium is made up of the University of Deusto (Spain), as coordinator, and as partners the Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production and Technische Universität Berlin (Germany); the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria); Greenovate! Europe (Belgium); 2.-0 LCA Consultants (Denmark); Universitat Jaume I, Eco Intelligent Growth, Asociación de Investigación de Industrias Cárnicas, Vego Supermercados and Eit Food CLC South (Spain); E3-MODELLING AE and Cluster Viooikonomias Kai Perivallontos Dytikis (Greece); Innomine Digital Innovation Hub Nonprofit KFT (Hungary); Rina Consulting Spa (Italy); AgriFood (Lithuania); YAGHMA B. V. (The Netherlands) and Fundacja Unimos (Poland).

Researchers Idoya Ferrero, Maria Jesús Muñoz, Juana M. Rivera and Elena Escrig are members of the University Institute for Social Development and Peace and of the research group SOGRES-MF - Sustainability of Organisations and Management of Social Responsibility - Markets of the UJI, as well as being part of the University Institute for Social Development and Peace.

This project is funded by the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Actions programme in the 2024 call of the European Union (Horizon-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-01). It will run from 2024 to 2028 and contributes to three Sustainable Development Goals (9, 12 and 17).

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