Outline:

• An introduction
  • Why bother?
  • the reasons for food loss and waste creation in the food chain
• AAFC’s technical work
  • reducing food losses in the early stages of the food system
  • quantifying Canadian food losses in food waste data and comparing it with the U.S. data
• The impacts of food loss and waste
  • economic
  • environmental
• What do we do (policy)