FOODRUS (“An innovative collaborative circular food system to reduce food waste and losses in the agri-food chain”) was an EU-funded project aiming to tackle food loss and waste by building more resilient and sustainable local/regional food systems. It combined technological, social, organisational and policy-related approaches to prevent and reduce FLW across the agri-food chain, involving a wide range of actors from producers to consumers.

A core element of the project was the testing and demonstration of solutions in real contexts (pilots and broader regional collaboration). The project recognises valuable results particularly around social actions for behavioural change and the development/application of assessment methodologies (e.g., circularity-related approaches), while noting that exploitation of many innovations may occur after the project lifetime.