2015 Charter
Food Loss and Waste Working Group
This charter outlines the goals, deliverables, participants, and work plan for the 2015 working
group focusing on Food Loss and Waste. The document offers information to members on what
to expect from group participation, as well as how they can contribute to the group and its goals.
1. Goals
Learning and Feedback
Harvest and augment the collective knowledge
of the group around issues of food loss and
waste.
Action
Foster partnership and project collaboration
among working group members.
2. Objectives and Deliverables
Learning and Feedback
1. Provide opportunities for members to
share existing work and solicit feedback
from other members and relevant experts.
2. Highlight case studies from experts to
contribute to group learning.
Action
1. Apply working group learning in on-­‐‑going
PIA members’ projects.
2. Identify and kick-start collaborations
between PIA members around issues of
food loss and/or waste.
3. Team
Working Group Leads:
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MIT Facilitator: Rebecca Smith, Scale-ups Research Project Coordinator, MIT D-Lab
PIA Lead member: Kyle Shen, Vice President, Commercial Excellence and New Product
Development, Greif
Group leads will set a strategic direction for the working group, propose a work plan, champion
the content definition, engage guest speakers, coordinate meetings and ensure continuous
alignment of the group’s work with the set goals and objectives.
Working Group Members:
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Jean Capili, Innovation Specialist, Global Office of Strategy, Collaboration, and Innovation,
World Vision
Keith Dokho, Senior Technical Advisor for Public-Private Partnerships, World Vision
Whitney Gantt, Global Director, Mobile Agriculture, Grameen Foundation
Holly Sunderman, Sales and Marketing Coordinator, Greif
Greg Van Kirk, founder and CEO, Community Enterprise Solutions
Members will ACTIVELY participate in the working group discussions, share their knowledge
and experience around the case studies, propose case studies and speakers, and provide
feedback to the group leads to continuously improve the content and the process.
Questions? Contact Rebecca Smith at [email protected].
2015 Charter
Food Loss and Waste Working Group
Working group discussions are opportunities to engage in cross learning and to explore
opportunities for project collaborations. These are 90-minute long, content-rich sessions that
require participants to be in conditions that allow them to actively participate and contribute to
the conversation. As much as possible, members should join via the Zoom platform, taking
advantage of the video functionally which greatly enhances the participation experience.
Members should avoid joining while on the road or with limited phone or internet connectivity as
this could limit the benefit of their participation.
4. Proposed Work Plan
Learning
Through case studies and guest speaker presentations, the group will cover learning across the
food loss and waste landscape, with a particular focus on farm-level losses, including storage of
wet and dry foods. Technical solutions as well as issues of adoption and training will be
discussed. Learning will take place through:
1. Monthly case study presentations by PIA members and guest organizations, to enable the
group to harvest collective knowledge while providing problem-solving support to each
participating organization. Case studies from within the PIA group will be prioritized and
supplemented by cases from outside organizations with relevant cases and learning
opportunities.
2. Expert participants: When members’ case studies or calls for action are presented, experts
with related expertise will be invited to join the working group meeting to contribute to the
discussion. Experts may come from MIT, its network and beyond, bringing research content
and perspective to frame or complement the case studies.
The output of each working group session will be synthesized meeting notes, summarizing the
learning and the questions raised during the session and in the online exchange.
Action
1. Call for Action: For interested members, one of the working group’s monthly meetings can
be dedicated to a “Call for Action”. In this session, the PIA member gets the opportunity to
pitch his/her project/need and ask the group for collaboration on well-defined food loss
initiatives. A discussion forum will be opened on the Basecamp online platform for this
purpose, for each Call for Action. Members can pitch collaboration needs, offer general
advice, resources and contacts and those with complementary assets and capabilities can
self-identify for follow up discussions to frame collaborations.
2. R&D projects: Scale-Ups staff may initiate fieldwork projects relating to food storage in order
to apply and further test the group’s learnings. Working group members will have the
opportunity to provide input into project plans and remain updated on its progress; outputs of
the project will be shared and discussed with the working group.
3. Field-based organizations: To foster the success of potential collaborations initiated within
the working group, action-oriented organizations with implementation capabilities in target
markets and/or related topical expertise may be selected and invited to engage with working
Questions? Contact Rebecca Smith at [email protected].
2015 Charter
Food Loss and Waste Working Group
group members during monthly meetings.
Proposed schedule
Date
Case Study
Guest Experts
Food storage type
March 27
Group discussion*: Working group goals and objectives definition
April 10
May 19
June 2
July 9
August 4
September 1
Zasaka
IDE, USDA, D-Lab
Dry
CITE
Dry
CE Solutions
MIT MechE, D-Lab
Wet
Zasaka/D-Lab
Dry
Group discussion*: Mid-point calibration on goals and outputs
Set 28 – Oct 2
Co-design summit in Ghana
October 13 *note
date change from Oct. 6
November 3
December 1
January 2016
Group discussion*: End-point discussion of outputs
*Open group discussion are scheduled at mid and end point to allow the members the
opportunity to reflect on the case studies, orient the development of the learning outputs,
provide feedback and inform the next steps of the working group.
All working group members are invited to contribute to improve this work plan. Please email the
group lead with any suggestions for content and process improvement.
Questions? Contact Rebecca Smith at [email protected].