96
Morroco
58.13
75.11
Palestina
No data available
No data available
Portugal
78.86
90.88
Slovenia
89.99
98.81
Spain
71.41
84.84
Syria
14.17
23.47
Tunisia
68.90
83.04
Turkey
32.21
43.16
AVERAGE
65.70
78.32
Based on ( ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/meeting/015/j0747e.pdf ).
The table shows the mean of countries’ degree of dependency on crop genetic resources which have their primary
centre of diversity elsewhere. The indicator used is the food energy supply in the national diet provided by individual
crops. On the basis of the primary area of diversity of each crop, it has been calculated the estimated dependency that
has
maximum and minimum indices, showing there is a high rate of dependency by practically all cases.
Waste production
Food waste is a very complex social, economic and environmental problem which, over the last
decade, reached disquieting proportion and is having a dramatic influence at global level. In an
historical era in which food security is widely acknowledged as a crucial need for feeding the nine
billions of people expected to inhabit the planet by 2050, it is imperative for the sustainability of
our society and economy to reduce the quantity of food that is either lost or wasted. Also the Euro-
Mediterranean area is subjected to this global tendency. In particular, it is necessary to enable
Europe with an array of opportunities to: i) invert the increasing tendency in food waste generation:
food waste was 90 million tons in Europe in 2010, and expected to be 126 million tons in 2020
without action (
EU Preparatory study on food waste in EU 27, BIO IS, October 2010); ii) develop the
basic principles of a circular economy, which relies more on reuse and high-quality recycling of
goods and less on primary raw materials (
Towards a circular economy: A zero waste programme for
Europe, COM(2014) 398); iii) increment the use of food waste by new valorisation routes in order to
avoid incineration or landfill
(Directive 2008/98/EC).
In this challenging scenario, the main objective of the ENABLE project is to provide European
Community with a structured system approach for the reduction and utilization of food and
packaging waste including set of knowledge, tools, instruments, demonstrators and procedures to
better understand the reasons of food waste generation at different levels and of developing the
required actions to optimize the performances of the whole food chain, intended as that complex
interplay whose dynamics span from primary production to consumers and final users.
The ambitious PRIMA SRIA depicted an integrated strategy which, taking advantage from the
generation of the highest level of innovation for the benefit of all the relevant stakeholders of the
food chain, will ensure food waste generation at all relevant stages of the food system are tackled.
The projects that will be developed in the framework of PRIMA will generate innovative solutions,
strategies, ideas, market–oriented approaches that will have a concrete and sustained low-to-mid
term impact for policy- and decision-makers, the EU food and drink and chemical industry, and the
consumers.