UGLY FRUITS NOT
An Innovative Educational Program Towards Sustainable Consumption And Food Waste Reduction
UglyFruitsNOT! is a project about food waste reduction and sustainable consumption. The project aims to include ugly produce (ugly fruits and vegetables) in the food supply chain by training food chain professionals (producers, wholesalers, retailers and distributers, grocery/market owners and grocery/market employees) as well as food service providers.
‘Ugly’ fruits and vegetables are edible and they are as tasty and nutritious as their ‘normal’ looking counterparts. The goal is to train food chain professionals to become ambassadors to their customers and final consumers in sustainable consumption of ugly fruits and vegetables.
General Objectives
- GO1: to contribute to environmental sustainability via sustainable consumption and food waste reduction
- GO2: to display the current state of how people deal with ugly fruits and vegetables for food waste reduction by desk and field researches
- GO3: to prepare a training material for VETs, on how to keep ugly fruits and vegetables in the food supply chain and reduce food waste
- GO4: to train VETs in order to train food chain professionals so that they can become ambassadors to their customers and final consumers about sustainable consumption of ugly fruits and vegetables
| Organization Name | Country |
|---|---|
| UNIWERSYTET PRZYRODNICZY WE WROCLAWIU | Poland |
| COFAC COOPERATIVA DE FORMACAO E ANIMACAO CULTURAL CRL | Portugal |
| UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN | Germany |
| ARID | Poland |
| STANDO LTD | Cyprus |
| INNOVATION HIVE | Greece |
| INERCIA DIGITAL | Spain |
| PNEVMA | Bulgaria |
Disclaimer: This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained here.
