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2015 APEC Expert Consultation on Assessment Methodology of Fishery and Livestock Losses
- General Information
- Agenda
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Date: July 16-17, 2015
Venue: Building I, College of Management, National Taiwan University, Taipei
Host: Council of Agriculture, Chinese Taipei
BACKGROUN
Reducing food losses and waste is an urgent issue around the world and in the Asia-Pacific region. Taking into account the major challenges that lie ahead in increasing access to food while protecting our natural resources and environment, strong cooperation and effective public-private partnerships are critical to addressing access to post-harvest technologies and to achieving sustainable development.
Fishery and livestock products are essential elements of the human diet. In the Asia- Pacific region, their production is continuously rising due to rising consumption from middle-income populations and dietary changes toward high-protein-content food types. This in effect has led to the abundance of waste or by-products, as can be seen from the frozen and canned seafood industry in the APEC region where tons of exoskeleton are discarded annually. Both commercial processing and home cooking require removal of bones, skin, head, offal, etc., which can be either sold for use in high-value health-related products or in low-value fishmeal, fertilizer, animal feed production, instead of dumping on landfills or oceans creating environmental hazards.
Since 2013, Chinese Taipei has been implementing the APEC Multi-Year Project (MYP SCE 02 2013A) on “Strengthening Public-Private Partnership to Reduce Food Losses in the Supply Chain.” This year, the focus is on fishery and livestock products and there are two major events. The first event is the “Expert Consultation on Assessment Methodology of Fishery and Livestock Losses.” The second event is the “APEC Seminar on Strengthening Public-Private Partnership to Reduce Food Losses in the Supply Chain of Fishery and Livestock.”
AGENDA
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DAY 1: July 16, 2015 |
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08:30-09:00 |
Registration |
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09:00-09:30 |
Welcome and Opening Remarks - Representative of Council of Agriculture, Chinese Taipei (TBD) - Amb. Pei-yung Hsu, APEC Senior Official, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chinese Taipei - Atty. Asis Perez, Chair, APEC Policy Partnership on Food Security (PPFS); Undersecretary, Department of Agriculture, The Philippines - Prof. Ching-Ray Chang, Executive Vice President for Administrative Affairs, National Taiwan University, Chinese Taipei |
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09:30-09:40 |
Group Photo |
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09:40-10:00 |
Coffee Break |
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10:00-12:00 |
Panel Session 1: Assessment Methodology: Scope, Definition and Measurement Main Issues: - What are the current trends and challenges in food loss reduction in the fishery and livestock sectors in Asia Pacific? - How will international initiatives promoting responsible practices on trade and sustainable fisheries/aquaculture influence food losses/waste in Asia Pacific? - What are the exiting definitions for food losses and waste in the fishery and livestock sectors? - Should APEC adopt the FAO (2011) definitions to measure the food losses and waste in the fishery and livestock supply chain? 1. Food Loss in the Supply Chain: The Landscape in Fisheries and Aquaculture. Mrs. Staci Rijal, NOAA, the United States Prof. James Morton, Head, Dept of Wine, Food and Molecular Biosciences, Lincoln University, New Zealand |
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-15:30 |
Panel Session 2: Data Collection and Gaps/Improvements Main Issue: - How to use the modeling estimates from the FAOSTAT and existing studies/literature as a starting point to prepare an APEC database? - How to provide domestic statistics from each APEC economy to validate and improve/extend the database? 1. Current Status of Food Loss in Fishery Supply Chain- Lessons: Implications from Korea Case Dr. Ching-Cheng Chang, Academia Sinica, Chinese Taipei |
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15:30-15:50 |
Coffee Break |
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15:50-18:00 |
Session 3: Member Economy Voluntary Reports on Food Losses in Fishery and Livestock Sectors Main Issues: - What are the major products and supply chain structure of fishery and livestock in your economy? - What are the key fishery/livestock product suitable for baseline data construction and validation in your economy? - What are the existing information gaps and recommendations for data gathering and future research? Presentations 1. Indonesia 2. Mexico 3. New Zealand 4. Papua New Guinea 5. Peru 6. The Philippines 7. Chinese Taipei 8. Thailand 9. Vietnam Discussion: all participants, moderated by Chang |
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18:30-20:00 |
Welcome Dinner (La Marée) |
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DAY 2: July 17, 2015 |
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08:00-08:30 |
Registration |
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08:30-10:10 |
Panel Session 4: Survey Design and Implementation Main Issues: - How to design a survey to produce a baseline of food losses for key supply chains across APEC economies? - How to implement the survey and balance between data transparency and confidentiality? - What are the technical supports and funding needed to conduct the survey? 1. Data transparency and confidentiality in food supply chain Dr. Don Gunasekera, Institute for Supply Chain and Logistics,Victoria University, Australia Prof. Sarun Wattanutchariya, Faculty of Economics, Kasetsart University, Thailand. Discussion: All Participants, moderated by Gunasekera and Sarun |
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10:10-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30-12:10 |
Panel Session 5: Reporting, Continuity and Capacity Building Main Issues: - How to use the survey results to support advocacy strategies to adopt new technologies/toolkits/practices on loss reduction? - How to extend the database into an indicator system to foster food security across APEC economies? - How to provide capacity building for enabling the data collection effort across APEC economies? 1. Issues on Reporting, Continuity, and Capacity Building in Food Loss: Experience from USDA with a Focus on Meat, Poultry, and Seafood Loss Dr. Jean Buzby, Economic Research Service, USDA, The United States (by Video) 2. Issues on Reporting, Continuing and Capacity Building in Reducing Paddy Postharvest Losses: The Philippine Experience Dr. Amelita Salvador, Socio-Economic and Policy Research Division, Dept. of Agriculture, Philmech, The Philippines. |
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12:10-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-15:30 |
Panel Session 6: Work Plan and Operational Mechanism Main issues: - Discuss the survey questionnaire (draft) on food loss baseline database and inventory of capacity building activities - Discuss the work plan (draft) for the technical team on food loss assessment and survey implementation Presentation: Questionnaire on Food Loss Assessment and Inventory of Capacity Building Activities in the APEC Region Draft Work Plan for the Technical Team for Strengthening Public-Private Partnership to Reduce Food Losses in the Supply Chain Dr. Ching-Cheng Chang, Academia Sinica, Chinese Taipei Discussion: all participants, moderated by Bingabing and Hsu |
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15:30-15:50 |
Coffee Break |
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15:50-16:20 |
Session 7: Conclusions, Recommendations, and Follow-Ups - Summary Report: Ching-Cheng Chang - Closing Remark: Dong-Chong Hsiou - Co-Chairs: Ching-Cheng Chang and Dong-Chong Hsiou (Chinese Taipei) |
