BREAD – Building REsponsibility And Developing Innovative Strategies For Tackling Food Waste

Avoiding food waste - which is an economic, social, political and most importantly moral problem - is at the heart of food sector’s societal responsibility. While the goal of reducing and avoiding the wasting of food is broadly accepted, the questions how best to do it, with what tools, at what costs, and who is responsible for conducting and overseeing responsible innovation in the food sector - require reflection. This project seeks to gather the necessary knowledge about effective and efficient solutions that the Norwegian food sector can implement, adopting a broad governance perspective to the grand societal challenge of food waste. For this, we propose to work across scales and look at responsible innovation (RRI) on the level of policies (providing the context in which RRI occurs), at the level of companies, and finally, at the business/consumer interface.