A global drive to reduce food losses and waste all along the value chain has arrived in Ukraine, where this week the fisheries and aquaculture sector tackles the issue.

Experts from FAO’s Fisheries Division in Rome, Italy are conducting a training course in Kyiv for representatives of Ukraine’s Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, State Ecological Academy, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences, and Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics.

Participants will learn new methodologies for assessing food losses and waste in fisheries and aquaculture. The aim is to build capacity among the country’s national experts as a foundation for further work on losses and waste by the Fisheries Agency of Ukraine.