The role played by news is very important for the university, as much as the academic education of students. In order to answer to this challenge, the European Centre of Peace Science, Integration and Cooperation (CESPIC), at the Catholic University "Our Lady of Good Counsel", organized a roundtable entitled "The Italian law against food waste and its impact on poverty ".
A panel of experts from different sectors discussed the possibility of drafting a similar law and implementing it in Albania.
At this moment, in Albania, food waste is managed by NGOs and foundations, distributing it to the poor.
Therefore, it is important to adopt, in Albania, a law able to regulate this activity according to standards that European countries have already implemented for this purpose.
Maria Chiara Gadda, the member of Italian Parliament, promoter of the Italian law on food waste, presented the motivations and the first results of of the law that she drafted.
In this conference moderated by Prof. Raul Caruso, Director of CESPIC, two lawmakers of the Parliament of Albania, Milva Ekonomi and Mr. Florjon Mima expressed their views. They met with arguments and constructive arguments about the role of state instances and entrepreneurship: how to create fiscal facilities for the subjects involved in donating surplus products to fulfill the common objective to help people in need.
The same topic has been dealt with by some representatives of entrepreneurship, like Mr. Pietro Tafuni, General Director of Conad Albania, Alban Zusi, president of Albanian Food Industry, Prof. Giovanni Lagioia, Dean of the Faculty of Economy UKZKM and civil society representatives as Ms. Wilma Verburg, executive director of Food Bank Albania, Arbër Hajdari, Executive Director of the Foundation "Different Weekend", who more than others face everyday situations of extreme poverty.
