Mohamed Aheeyar focuses on the issue of food loss and waste in Sri Lanka. He proposes actionable solutions based on participatory case studies conducted in various settings, including hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, retail markets, and households. The two main solutions revolve around food waste prevention and management. The first aspect is tackled by measuring food waste to raise awareness on the scale of the issue, while food loss and waste management involves redistributing edible food and repurposing food waste for animal feed. These solutions present scalable opportunities to enhance the sustainability of agrifood systems while improving nutrition.

The third edition of the Knowledge Exchange Series follows the same format of pre-recorded experts’ videos to be viewed by participants prior to the engaging 90-minute dialogue session. Each session brings on a relevant, timely and vital theme around the nexus of nutrition, climate and agrifood system transformation. Building upon the previous series on India and responding to the demand from the practitioners in the South Asia region, this edition encompasses the challenges and solutions for the entire region. The series highlights innovations taking place in various countries of the region to present practical and actionable solutions on how to transform agrifood systems to address these concurrent and mutually reinforcing crises.