PLOUTOS

Food waste occurs across the food system from the farm, post-harvest, processing, transporting, to wholesaling, retailing and the consumers. Growing media attention, in recent years, about environmental and economic costs, hunger and resource conservation associated with food waste has raised public awareness about food loss. This has in turn accelerated public and private efforts to make better use of available food supplies by recovering safe and nutritious food that would otherwise be wasted.

Ploutos aims to create opportunities for changes that can rebalance the value chain in the agri-food system towards a more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable system. Until recently, approaches to the agri-food system focused on narrow segments of the overall value chain. Ploutos take a systems-based approach looking at the overall impact of changes at any point in the value chain, thereby enabling a more comprehensive and in depth understanding.