013: All Eyes On Food Waste with Andrew Shakman

Essential Ingredients Podcast

English - December 14, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes - 29.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 127 ratings
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“When you work on food waste, you are working on the most important things. You’re working on climate, food security and feeding the world.” - Andrew Shakman

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The less people see, the less people care. It’s been easy to disregard this urgent issue, because food waste has been placed in a blind spot. But this dangerous situation can no longer be ignored! What is being done- and what can YOU do- to prevent food loss?

Leanpath is today's leading food waste prevention platform. Its co-founder and CEO, Andrew Shakman is an author, speaker, and internationally-renowned expert in food waste prevention. Andrew is passionate about creating a more sustainable future and supporting companies to create products that make a difference and are resilient through economic cycles.

This week, Justine is joined by a special co-host, Lisa Johnson, an industry powerhouse in food loss. The duo digs deep with Andrew on effective food loss prevention tactics that both companies and households can apply. It doesn't matter whether it’s a company factory or a home kitchen, food is still wasted. In this episode, Andrew shares why food waste is a problem and why prevention is the most important action we can take today. He also addresses the importance of measuring food loss in increasing awareness and initiating intervention. Listen as Lisa and Andrew share tools and strategies that can help you measure, manage, and reduce food loss. Zero food waste is the goal, but without getting a clear picture of the gravity of the situation, this problem will persist. The key is to assign value to food, while we still have it.

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Andrew Shakman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Leanpath, the industry’s leading food waste prevention platform working with client partners to fight waste around the world. He’s been working on the front lines of behavior change and is an internationally renowned expert in food waste prevention.

Andrew is a speaker, author, and expert on global food waste issues. One of the “20 Most Influential” people in the foodservice industry (Foodservice Director Magazine); featured in BusinessWeek, NPR, PBS, Forbes, New Yorker, Fast Company and many food industry publications.

For the love of food, Andrew has been on a journey to end avoidable food waste since 2004. He believes that food connects us to one another and to our natural environment in powerful and profound ways and that it's a tragedy of epic scale that we routinely waste it. This is a tragedy for our planet and its climate, for those in need, for the animals whose lives we take only to discard them, for the workers who invest heart and soul to produce food we ignore, and for our collective conscience as a society.

As a passionate food waste prevention advocate. Preventing food waste at the source is the only route to true reform and yet it's the most overlooked, under-targeted part of the food waste solutions space. Wasting food is simply wrong. Fortunately, this is a solvable problem and he’s committed to seeing that solution in his lifetime.

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Lisa Johnson is a leader in food loss and waste - focused on agricultural production. She is a seasoned horticulturist with a broad range of experience in local, organic, sustainable, conventional, and biotech food and agriculture. Lisa’s research aims to understand the loss of edible vegetables. Understanding constraints from the growers’ perspective have been critical: always encouraging people to incorporate more growers' voices in their work. Lisa is fortunate to be able to work with some of the most forward-thinking specialty crop growers in the country, as well as non-profits, governments, start-ups, industry leaders, and the academy.

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