ARDA supports integrated waste management research to the sustainable development goal joins with Kick-off Workshop - Asia Pacific Food Waste Working Group – UNEP

On October 20, 2021, Agricultural Research Development Agency (Public Organization) or ARDA as a sponsor for research funding in the project “integrated waste management to the sustainable development” Asst. Prof. Dr. Rattanawan Mungkung attended the meeting of Kick-off Workshop - Asia Pacific Food Waste Working Group – UNEP through Zoom online platform. The purpose is to support low- and middle-income countries group in the Asia-Pacific to the evaluation of food waste. Provided a food waste index report for the present sustainable development goal. Including and classifying measures to prevent and reduce food waste. Participants were from 25 countries, 68 partner agencies, and the scope of the study covered Retail Food services, Household.
Thailand is currently in the process of evaluating the amount of food loss to create a national food loss baseline and propose the expectation of attending this meeting that wants to learn the method collection and evaluation of food waste according to international standards from UNEP, including sharing experiences on food waste evaluation and food waste management policies that succeed and fail to take lessons. and applied to Thailand