I started my connection to WRAP as a 6-month part time Natural Environment Research Council innovation placement in WRAP in 2017. This placement allowed WRAP to expand their policy outlook from food waste to a broader food sustainability agenda. Part of this work was comparing UK Data Service data sets such as the National Diet and vietnam rcs data Nutrition Survey (NDNS) with similar data from WRAP, Valpak and Nielsen.
I have now joined as a full member of WRAP Global (the internationally facing team). At WRAP I now commonly use international data sets (including UN, World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), in addition to statistical agency data).
Christian’s plans
I would like to continue to focus on the nexus of diet, food and sustainability in my blog posts and engagement work as a Data Impact Fellow.
There is a wealth of diet and food related information stored in the UK Data Service, not been explored, harmonised, or linked to other data sets (including WRAP food waste data, nutritional data, or environmental impact data). I intend to champion the harmonisation and linking of food purchase, consumption, and food waste datasets.