In the first segment, Jocelyn Boiteau and Prabhu Pingali will share key findings from their new book, Wasted Potential: Tackling Food Loss and Waste Across Transforming Food Systems.
Their work takes a holistic view of where losses occur from production through consumption, and how smarter policies and investments can meaningfully reduce them. The book importantly also highlights the need for better metrics and approaches to understanding where and why losses occur.
Their work takes a holistic view of where losses occur from production through consumption, and how smarter policies and investments can meaningfully reduce them. The book importantly also highlights the need for better metrics and approaches to understanding where and why losses occur.
This book launch was followed by presentations on new IFPRI research on innovative approaches to measuring and reducing food loss and waste in perishable foods. This includes research on the use of artificial intelligence to improve food loss measurement accuracy, reducing spoilage in meat supply chains, and other emerging tools for understanding and addressing losses in highly perishable products.
The seminar concluded with an open Q&A exploring promising directions for future research and practical, cost‑effective strategies to reduce food loss and waste at scale.
- Alan de Brauw, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
- Prabhu Pingali, Professor, Charles Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, & Director, Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture & Nutrition, Cornell University
- Jocelyn Boiteau, Senior Nutrition Impact and Innovation Director, Food Systems for the Future
- Vivian Hoffmann, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
- Carolyne Maina, Program Director, Technoserve
- Assan Ng’ombe, Resilience Officer, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
- Ruth Hill, Director, Markets, Trade, and Institutions, IFPRI
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