PROJECT TITLE: IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY BY REDUCING POST HARVEST LOSSES IN THE FISHERIES SECTOR ACRONYM: SECUREFISH

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1 FP 7 EU PROJECT THEME [KBBE ] [Reducing postharvest losses for increased food security SICA] PROJECT TITLE: IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY BY REDUCING POST HARVEST LOSSES IN THE FISHERIES SECTOR ACRONYM: SECUREFISH COORDINATOR: PROFESSOR NAZLIN HOWELL UNIVERSITY OF SURREY, FACULTY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES Inaugural Meeting 7th - 10 February nd meeting th June 2012 at INTI, Argentina 3 rd Meeting 7-11 th December 2012 at KVAFSU, India 4 th meeting th June 2013 at DLO, The Netherlands Review meeting September 2013, KMFRI, Mombasa, Kenya

2 EU FP7-KBBE // Number: IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY BY REDUCING POST HARVEST LOSSES IN THE FISHERIES SECTOR Ebbens Netherlands DLO Netherlands IPIMAR, Portugal INTI Argentina CSIR-FRI Ghana UNAM Namibia COORDINATOR Nazlin Howell University of Surrey, UK KMFRI, Kenya Peche Kenya UiTM Malaysia KVAFSU India KFDC India ME India

3 GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF SECUREFISH To contribute to the UN Millennium Development Goals to protect human health by - increasing safe and nutritious food supplies - strengthening local technological capacity and - developing tools for assuring and managing quality. To protect the environment through a better understanding of the environmental impact on and from the fisheries sector and improved technology to manage changes.

4 Food security Food security relates to the provision of safe, nutritious and affordable food. With a projected increase in world population, diminishing energy and water supplies as well as climate change, food production will need to be doubled by Climate change is making major food producing areas drier, with increasing risks of floods and droughts that adversely impact agriculture production, fisheries and nutrition. Food shortages will severely affect developing countries, where a billion people go hungry. Food price increases in 2008, caused by poor harvests, increased diversion of food to biofuels, high energy costs, export bans and speculation on the commodity markets made food even less affordable and less available to the poor and resulted in riots.

5 How can food security be addressed? Science and Technology must go hand in hand with trade policy and climate change policy, poverty reduction, technology sharing and education. Investment and growth in agriculture by breeding new drought resistant crops and producing animal feed, crops, livestock, fish, forests, biomass and commodities sustainably, including improving nutritional quality and food safety and reducing postharvest losses. But investment in traditional agriculture alone cannot lift the majority of the population out of poverty. Priority actions should focus on Science and Technology (biological, chemical and engineering), training and building R & D capacity e.g. in - the production of value-added products - food products desired by consumers and - products that meet food quality and safety standards in a global market - Making education and science and technology capital assets.

6 FOOD SECURITY:CHALLENGES AND OPTIONS SECUREFISH provides options within the food chain to improve processing, preservation, food safety and nutrition Water Climate change Fair trading obesity FOOD SECURITY malnutrition Sustainable production Energy policy Education Population growth Poverty

7 Role of fisheries and overall objective A sustainable fisheries sector is essential for food security, hunger mitigation and nutrition. 1 billion people depend on fish as the main protein source, 44 million people are employed in fishing, fish production which is worth $150 billion and affects 560 million people globally. Environmentally friendly no methane, no deforestation. However, low and medium income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America suffer severe problems of fish shortages due to climate change, overfishing, environmental pollution, poor management and post harvest losses. To counteract these problems, the overall objective of SECUREFISH is to reduce post harvest losses by strengthening the local capacity in processing, preservation and quality control of fish and fish products. SECUREFISH is built upon outcomes and experience gained from a previous EU project INCO-DEV ICA4-CT

8 THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF SECUREFISH SECUREFISH OBJECTIVE 1 To reduce post harvest losses in the fisheries sector to improve food security. SECUREFISH will target post harvest losses from by-catch; by-products of processes like filleting and inadequate preservation processes that threaten fish supplies and quality.

9 SECUREFISH OBJECTIVE 2 SECUREFISH will develop three innovative processing methods: i) Solar drying and wind ii) Solar assisted extrusion iii) Fast freezing and continuous atmosphere freeze-drying (CAFD)

10 SECUREFISH OBJECTIVE 3 To generate higher-value products from bio-waste from fish processing (WP3). 50% of fish can be lost during processing causing pollution. Innovatively, SECUREFISH will use Low-value waste material from fish filleting (heads, viscera, skin, frames) VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTS Fish oil Fish skin collagen and gelatin, NOVEL FUNCTIONAL FOODS Bioactive peptides Nutraceuticals Hydrolysates for emulsions Dietetic sip feeds Protein recovered from waste water and processed using low energy centrifugation systems in Africa, and further purification of water by ultrafiltration/nanofiltration in Surrey and India

11 SECUREFISH OBJECTIVE 4 To improve the quality and safety of food by devising an effective tool for commodity chain analysis and total food chain management (WP4). These results will help to constitute a scientific basis for the adoption of the new technology in terms of safety, nutrition and environmental benefits. This quality control tool will be flexible enough for implementation in any fish product chain and widely acceptable.

12 SECUREFISH OBJECTIVE 5 To implement improved technology, added-value products and a total quality management tool (WP 2-4) in real-life third-country conditions in Africa, Asia and Latin America (WP5). SECUREFISH will study Three fish product chains from harvest to consumption - solar dried - extruded or - CAFD, For each chain, areas will be identified where real improvement targets can be set and achieved using recommendations from WP Marketable products monitored for safety and quality using the processing and quality management tools - produced sustainably after the life of the project in partnership with SMEs and industrial partners (EEIB, Peche Foods, KFDC and Millennium Exports). - This will include benchmarking and result in best practices including handling, transport and storage.

13 SECUREFISH OBJECTIVE 6 The sixth objective is dissemination, education and training (WP6) to ensure that the outcomes of SECUREFISH are implemented long after the life of the project. The technological results, guidelines and other outcomes will be disseminated widely to all countries via publications, conferences, websites and communication to stakeholders. Information will be promoted and imparted to consumers, food manufacturers, processors and retailers by organising meetings and workshops. Education and training of researchers, MSc and PhD students and exchanges between partners and training in local communities will be actively undertaken by partners.

14 Reducing Post Harvest Losses and Improving Food Security in Sustainable Fish Product Chains WP1. Project Management (Surrey) WP2. Development of processing tools to improve conventional marine, aquaculture and freshwater fish supplies: 1. Solar drier 2. Solar assisted extruder 3. Fast frozen and CAFD (DLO, SME IEEB, KFDC, KMFRI, Surrey, UNAM, UiTM) WP3. Utilisation of waste to make valueadded products: 1. Centrifugation and ultrafiltration to recover nutrients and clean water. 2. Functional hydrolysates from by catch and filleting (KVAFSU, Surrey, IPIMAR, SME ME, KFDC) WP4. Development of Quality Management Tool: Food safety and risk assessment HACCP, traceability Nutritional and eating quality Carbon footprint (IPIMAR, DLO, Surrey, INTI, KMFRI, KVAFSU, UNAM) WP 5. CASE STUDIES Total food chain management in fish product chains in third countries 1. Solar dried fish (KMFRI, FRI, SME KFDC, KVAFSU, DLO) 2. Extruded products (UNAM, UiTM SME Peche, FRI, Surrey, DLO) 3. Frozen/CAFD fish product (INTI, SME IEBB) WP6. Guidelines, dissemination, education, training (Surrey)

15 WE MAKE A HUGE IMPACT! Processing Tool Quality Management Tool Conventional Fish Supplies Bycatch and Waste Upgrading Increased Food Supply Better Preservation Safe and Healthy Products Low Carbon Footprint Processor Retailer Consumer NGOs Local Community Groups Governments

16 Impacts SECUREFISH can make a huge impact in developing countries and Europe in terms of (i) Increased competiveness and innovation particularly for SMEs and local communities (ii) Economic benefit by reducing post harvest losses and increasing fish supplies (iii)scientific breakthroughs including new healthy food products and new technology that is energy and water efficient thus mitigating climate change (iv) Societal impacts: improving education, employment, nutrition and sustainability of an important food sector and (v) Contributing to food standards and policies through quality management guidelines. SECUREFISH fulfils the core aims of the MDGs and benefits the environment.

17 Acknowledgements We are grateful to the European Commission for funding SECUREFISH We look forward to working together to make a difference to the world. Thank you N.Howell@surrey.ac.uk