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October 29, 2019 FARM & SEA TO CAMPUS FORUM Project Waste Not: A Tool for Improving Traceability and Transparency SPEAKERS Tania Taranovski Andy Cox Neal Bram Director of Programs Director of Dining Services CEO & Founder Farm to
Project Waste Not: A Tool for Improving Traceability and Transparency
October 29, 2019
Andy Cox
Director of Dining Services Smith College acox@smith.edu
Tania Taranovski
Director of Programs Farm to Institution New England tania@farmtoinst.org Moderator
Neal Bram
CEO & Founder Project Waste Not neal@projectwastenot.com
I. INTRODUCTION II. SPEAKER #1 - Tania Taranovski, FINE III. SPEAKER #2 - Andy Cox, Smith College IV. SPEAKER #3 - Neal Bram, Project Waste Not V. Q&A VI. CONCLUSION
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Q&A
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The New England Farm & Sea to Campus Network is a community of higher education and food systems stakeholders who connect, share, and collaborate to develop transparent regional supply chains and educate campus communities about regional food systems.
Traceability The ability to track the forward movement of a product through
specified stages of the extended supply chain and trace backward the history, application, or location of that product. Global Food Traceability Center https://www.ift.org/global-food-traceability-center
Transparency Sharing information about product attributes including where
and how it was grown/produced.
Transportation Storage
2019-2020: SCOPING
Assess existing resources and their applicability to local food procurement efforts and needs.
2020+: SHARE BEST PRACTICES
Develop best practices, resources, and other information across our network.
TRACKING LOCAL FOOD PURCHASES: Colleges
Real Food Challenge Calculator
1. Campus Dining Reports 101 and 201 2. Keep On Tracking 3. Tracking Local Food: A Guidebook for Campus Dining www.farmtoinstitution.org
1. How to Optimize Local Food Tracking Systems 2. Velocity Reports 3. Local Food for Campus Dining: Stats and Stories 4. National Metrics Collaborative Webinar Series www.youtube.com “Farm to Institution New England”
Outputs
(KDEs) & Critical Tracking Events (CTEs)
Process
Tracking Reports
In 2018, the NE Farm and Sea to Campus Network studied tracking methods across 10 different College and Universities.
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Results
What we found was that many College and University Dining Directors use multiple methods and definitions to understand their purchases.
Velocity Reports
Getting compatible data across all suppliers can be challenging with pack sizes, file formats, sortable data, multiple business units. Requires online portal access or email requests.
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Formatting and Analyzing
Directors and Chefs need clean, accurate, and timely data to make informed purchasing decisions. Access to data can make purchasing in season and increasing local purchases year over year possible.
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Higher Ed and Non-profit Landscape
The reporting requirements of Higher Ed Institutions, Non-Profit and Grant Funders are changing. Reporting Tools are changing too.
Problem: The systems used in the food supply chain can’t exchange information resulting in a highly ineffjcient market.
Institution Systems Distributor System Grower/Vendor Systems
Manual Communication
Societal Impact: Hurts your communities.
The Damage from Poor Information Flows
$5 Billion
A conservative estimate of the amount of unnecessary labor spent manually entering orders at each step in the food supply chain.
$30 Billion
HBS estimated cost of “poor coordination” among trading partners in the food supply chain.
$40 Billion
The amount of food that never makes it off the farm despite all the energy, water, and pollution that goes into production.
Access to data about products, availability, and logistics is necessary to drive the innovations that will improve our food system.
The Solution: A Food Data Exchange
Open Food & Beverage Commerce Network (OFBCN)
Retailer/Restaurants/ Institutions Custom Solutions Grower/Vendor Systems Innovators Distributor System
DATA
Open Food & Beverage Network
Automated Sustainability Reports
DATA
PO Details Supplier Info Distributor Systems Automated Reports Grower/Vendor Systems Product & Location Details
An integrated system can provide the “clean, accurate, and timely data” need to make informed purchasing decisions.
sustainable in real-time.
sustainability metrics.
trend reports.
Total & % Local Pick Up Distance And More
DATA
Andy Cox
Director of Dining Services Smith College acox@smith.edu
Tania Taranovski
Director of Programs Farm to Institution New England tania@farmtoinst.org Moderator
Neal Bram
CEO & Founder Project Waste Not neal@projectwastenot.com
Campus Farmer Summit - Feb 22, 2020 Webinars Role of Contracts (ChesapeakeFoodshed.net) - Oct 30 Product Spotlight: Grains - Nov 19 Product Spotlight: Meat - Dec 5
In the working group On the listserv Send us your ideas! Email: campus@farmtoinst.org
CONNECT WITH FINE
CONTACT
Tania Taranovski
Director of Programs Farm to Institution New England tania@farmtoinst.org
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CONNECT WITH FINE
Photo: Hampshire College