Te Hui Taumata Moumou Kai o Aotearoa
New Zealand Food Waste Summit
23 October, 2024 - 10am-3pm
Online
WasteMINZ and NZ Food Waste Champions 12.3 will host the 3rd Te Hui Taumata Moumou Kai o Aotearoa – New Zealand Food Waste Summit online.
Globally, an estimated 40% of food does not make it from the paddock and packhouse to the plate, and food waste is responsible for 6-8% of global carbon emissions. We need to accelerate the work being done to reduce food waste. At the same time, even though Aotearoa produces enough calories to feed 20 million people, one in five tamariki live in households that experience moderate to severe food insecurity.
The Food Waste Summit will explore the collaboration required to support Aotearoa’s moves to reduce our food waste and delve into the data behind the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor’s latest food waste report.
The summit seeks to support participants understanding of their place in the system, what information they need to support their decision-making and how we build the collaboration required within our communities and across Aotearoa.
| Early Bird | Last Minute |
WasteMINZ members - not-for-profits | $ 150.00 | $ 172.50 |
WasteMINZ members - others | $ 180.00 | $ 207.00 |
WasteMINZ member group rate* | $ 400.00 | $ 460.00 |
Non-WasteMINZ members - not-for-profits | $ 190.00 | $ 218.50 |
Non-WasteMINZ members - others | $ 225.00 | $ 258.75 |
Non-WasteMINZ member group rate* | $ 420.00 | $ 483.00 |
*Group rate is equal to three (3) people from the same or different organisation, but must have one billing address
All prices exclude GST
Event information
In addition to Elise’s mahi, we will be synthesizing and distributing the work from the breakout rooms to help fuel your work in food waste elimination. These discussions unlock ideas and open doors and we want to ensure that remains after the event has finished. Using Miro boards (virtual whiteboards), all ideas can be captured, and even the quietest of voices can submit their thoughts. These Miro boards not only collect the information visually, we will be able to combine and share this with you using these visuals.
- Primary Producer / Grower
- Manufacturer & Processor
- Distributor / Logistics
- Retailer
- Hospitality, Foodservice & institutions
- Community Groups
- Food Rescuers
- Consultants
- Researchers
- Central Government
- Territorial Authorities
- Industry bodies
- And more!
- the state of play and opportunities for the food waste reduction ecosystem of New Zealand
- what the pathways to better collaboration are and the common challenges
- who should be collaborating and how - breakout sessions will include post-event follow-up
- if New Zealand requires a food waste strategy, what it would mean and how we would each play a role
Download the Programme here, or see the agenda for the day below.
| 10am | Welcome and introduction Fiona Lavin WasteMINZ |
| 10.05am | New Zealand's food waste progress, gaps and pathway forward Kaitlin Dawson NZ Food Waste Champions 12.3 Food waste reduction in New Zealand has progressed dramatically in the past two years and is continuing to evolve. Kaitlin will use the recently developed Food Waste Reduction Ecosystem as a foundation to highlight the gaps, opportunities and solutions at our fingertips and explore how the international environment is impacting Aotearoa New Zealand’s food waste sector. |
| 10.30am | Using the data to inform our decision making Professor Sheila Skeaff Otago University Sheila will cover what food waste data we have in NZ, why we need this data and where we may be able to focus our efforts to build a more robust dataset. |
| 10.55am | Breakout discussions: What do you know and what do you need to know? To support research and build collaboration and action against food waste, the summit will break into groups to gather information from attendees. We will locate everyone on the food supply chain and then identify the data that everyone holds, what data is needed the most and the underlying drivers for food waste. |
| 12.05pm | Lunch |
| 12.35pm | Snapshots: Reducing food waste - collaboration in action
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| 1.05pm | Australia’s progress towards halving food waste by 2030 Sam Oakden Stop Food Waste Australia Australia has set some bold targets to move towards halving food waste by 2030. This work is supported by strategy, the Australian Food Pact, Sector Action Plans, and research. But at the heart of this is collaboration within and across sectors. Sam will give an update on the work underway in Australia and how they are progressing towards the nation’s goal. |
| 1.35pm | Panel discussion: Should we have a national Food Waste Strategy? Facilitator: Dame Juliet Gerrard - University of Auckland Panellists:
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| 2.20pm | Bringing it all together Kaitlin Dawson NZ Food Waste Champions 12.3 From understanding our current state, to the possibilities of the future, Kaitlin will weave together the strands of the day - debriefing the sessions and helping to plot the next steps we can all take to move forward action on reducing food waste in Aotearoa. |
| 2.35pm | Thank you and next steps Fiona Lavin WasteMINZ |
| 2.40pm | Summit closes |
Kaitlin Dawson
Food Waste Champions 12.3
Kaitlin is the Executive Director of NZ Food Waste Champions 12.3. For the past decade, Kaitlin has entrenched herself in the waste minimisation sector, driving incredible results. Her curiosity for understanding human behaviour sparked her desire to change the waste system from the ground up.
Sam Oakden
End Food Waste Australia
Sam Oakden is the A/Director Industry Action at End Food Waste Australia, leading the team delivering the Australian Food Pact. The Pact brings together organisations in pre-competitive collaboration to make Australia’s food system more sustainable, resilient, and circular. It’s a multi-year commitment by the businesses who grow, make and sell our food to develop solutions and implement change at scale.
Professor Sheila Skeaff
Otago University
Professor Skeaff has an MSc in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of Guelph (Canada) and a PhD in Human Nutrition from the University of Otago. In addition to being a long-standing academic at the University of Otago, Professor Skeaff has held or been appointed to a number of national and international expert groups. Professor Skeaff served as the President of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand for six years and is the vice-chair of the trans-Tasman Expert Working Group for Iodine that is reviewing the Australian/New Zealand Nutrient Reference Values for Iodine. She is a member of a World Health Organisation external expert group working to revise guidance on Iodine indicators. Professor Skeaff plays a key role in the governance of the Oceania Nutrition Leadership Platform (https://www.onlp.org/), serving as the Chair. She is on the Editorial Board of the journals Maternal and Child Nutrition and Frontiers of Nutrition. In 2018 she gained national recognition with an Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award and in 2022 was the OUSA best postgraduate supervisor of the year.
