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The successful candidate will contribute reducing food waste in a number of sectors across Europe. As a member of the team on an EU funded project (called ROSETTA), they will work to improve market access to foods that do not meet marketing standards but are still safe to eat. The team will conduct applied research to understand the impacts of food marketing standards on the generation of food waste, co-design solutions with a range of stakeholders, and test and validate those solutions in practice. As part of the research, they will assess trade-offs and openly share solutions for alternative market access for suboptimal foods, using the multi-actor approach. In Ireland, pilot initiatives will be established to develop a range of products from “waste” horticultural products and to assess the feasibility of establishing a product range, involving a cluster of horticultural producers, for the Irish retail market. The appointee will join the Irish team, which will include a dedicated food technologist, and also involve collaboration with University College Cork, Bord Bia, Fingal Leader Partnership Ltd and SECAD Partnership.

This position provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to reducing food waste in Ireland, and to collaborate with others to design and evaluate solutions that may be put into widespread practice across Europe. Within ROSETTA, applied research will be undertaken to identify the impact of marketing standards on food waste in different sectors across Europe (fruit & vegetables, cereals, dairy and meat). This knowledge will be used to develop pilot use cases, involving all key actors in the food value chain (farmers, processors, manufacturers, distributors and retailers, as well as consumers, researchers, policy makers and regulators, food banks and other NGOs). Within the use case, transdisciplinary research, co-creation activities and pilot experiments will be undertaken to better identify, measure, understand and find solutions to deal with food waste generated by the use of marketing standards.

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