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  2. Food waste matters - A systematic review of household food waste practices and their policy implications

    Karin Schanes, Karin Dobernig, Burcu Gözet · 2018 · Journal of Cleaner Production · 1,335 citations

    In recent years, food waste has received growing interest from local, national and European policymakers, international organisations, NGOs as well as academics from various disciplinary fields. Increasing concerns about food security and environmental impacts, such as resource depletion and greenhouse gas emissions attributed to food waste, have intensified attention to the topic. While food waste occurs in all stages of the food supply chain, private households have been identified as key actors in food waste generation. However, the evidence on why food waste occurs remains scattered. This paper maps the still small but expanding academic territory of consumer food waste by systematically

  3. The rise of blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chains

    Andreas Kamilaris, Agusti Fonts, Francesc X. Prenafeta‐Boldú · 2019 · Trends in Food Science & Technology · 1,235 citations

    Blockchain is an emerging digital technology allowing ubiquitous financial transactions among distributed untrusted parties, without the need of intermediaries such as banks. This article examines the impact of blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chain, presents existing ongoing projects and initiatives, and discusses overall implications, challenges and potential, with a critical view over the maturity of these projects. Our findings indicate that blockchain is a promising technology towards a transparent supply chain of food, with many ongoing initiatives in various food products and food-related issues, but many barriers and challenges still exist, which hinder its wider

  4. Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and Potential for Action

    Jessica Aschemann‐Witzel, Ilona E. de Hooge, Pegah Amani, et al. · 2015 · Sustainability · 885 citations

    In the past decade, food waste has received increased attention on both academic and societal levels. As a cause of negative economic, environmental and social effects, food waste is considered to be one of the sustainability issues that needs to be addressed. In developed countries, consumers are one of the biggest sources of food waste. To successfully reduce consumer-related food waste, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of the factors influencing food waste-related consumer perceptions and behaviors. The present paper presents the results of a literature review and expert interviews on factors causing consumer-related food waste in households and supply chains. Results show th

  6. Impacts of climate change on the livestock food supply chain; a review of the evidence

    Cécile Godde, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Dianne Mayberry, et al. · 2021 · Global Food Security · 748 citations

    The potential impacts of climate change on current livestock systems worldwide are a major concern, and yet the topic is covered to a limited extent in global reports such as the ones produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In this article, we review the risk of climate-related impacts along the land-based livestock food supply chain. Although a quantification of the net impacts of climate change on the livestock sector is beyond the reach of our current understanding, there is strong evidence that there will be impacts throughout the supply chain, from farm production to processing operations, storage, transport, retailing and human consumption. The risks of climate-relat

  7. Understanding Food Loss and Waste—Why Are We Losing and Wasting Food?

    Rovshen Ishangulyyev, Sanghyo Kim, Sang Hyeon Lee · 2019 · Foods · 570 citations

    The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported that approximately one-third of all produced foods (1.3 billion tons of edible food) for human consumption is lost and wasted every year across the entire supply chain. Significant impacts of food loss and waste (FLW) have increased interest in establishing prevention programs around the world. This paper aims to provide an overview of FLW occurrence and prevention. Economic, political, cultural, and socio-demographic drivers of FLW are described, highlighting the global variation. This approach might be particularly helpful for scientists, governors, and policy makers to identify the global variation and to focus on future implications.

  8. Quantification of food waste per product group along the food supply chain in the European Union: a mass flow analysis

    Carla Caldeira, Valeria De Laurentiis, Sara Corrado, et al. · 2019 · Resources Conservation and Recycling · 494 citations

    In 2015, the United Nations defined the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which include a target (12.3) on food waste. The target requires "by 2030, to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and to reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses". The target has increased awareness about the food waste problem and boosted research in food waste quantification. Nevertheless, there is a lack of studies that adopt a systematic approach to account for food waste providing disaggregated values per food supply chain stage and per food groups. Such an approach could support policy makers in prioritizing interventions for food was

  9. Review: Consumption-stage food waste reduction interventions – What works and how to design better interventions

    Christian Reynolds, Liam Goucher, Tom Quested, et al. · 2019 · Food Policy · 478 citations

    Food waste prevention has become an issue of international concern, with Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 aiming to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels by 2030. However there is no review that has considered the effectiveness of interventions aimed at preventing food waste in the consumption stages of the food system. This significant gap, if filled, could help support those working to reduce food waste in the developed world, providing knowledge of what interventions are specifically effective at preventing food waste. This paper fills this gap, identifying and summarizing food-waste prevention interventions at the consumption/consumer stage of the supply c

  12. Food waste accounting along global and European food supply chains: State of the art and outlook

    Sara Corrado, Serenella Sala · 2018 · Waste Management · 304 citations

    Contributing to environmental pollution and resources depletion, food waste represents a considerable inefficiency of the global food system. Within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, countries committed to halve per-capita food waste generated at retail and consumer levels and to decrease food waste along the food supply chain by 2030. Reliable and detailed information on food waste is of utmost importance for the actors of the food supply chain, organizations and governments willing to implement and monitor effective reduction strategies. The present paper is a review of existing studies on food waste generation at the global and European scales and aims primarily at des

  13. Food Waste Drivers in Europe, from Identification to Possible Interventions

    Massimo Canali, Pegah Amani, L.H. Aramyan, et al. · 2016 · Sustainability · 233 citations

    The growing volumes of food globally lost or wasted and implications for food security and sustainability have raised the concern of researchers, governments, international organizations and grass-root movements. Much research and experiences investigating food waste causes and drivers focus on one specific segment of the food supply chain and limit the analysis to the situation of one or few countries, while the few studies of wider geographical scope also target other relevant and diversified objectives (e.g., food waste definition, quantification, environmental and economic impacts, and recommendations for interventions). This study, carried out by a network of European institutions invol

  17. An application of machine learning to classify food waste interventions from a food supply chain perspective

    Qiongfang Zou, Carel Nicolaas Bezuidenhout, Imran Ishrat · 2024 · British Food Journal · 7 citations

    PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the efficacy of machine learning (ML) in managing natural language processing tasks, specifically by developing two ML models to systematically classify a substantial number of food waste interventions.Design/methodology/approachA literature review was undertaken to gather global food waste interventions. Subsequently, two ML models were designed and trained to classify these interventions into predefined supply chain-related groups and intervention types. To demonstrate the use of the models, a meta-analysis was performed to uncover patterns amongst the interventions.FindingsThe performance of the two classification models underscores the c

  19. Decarbonization and waste reduction in a disrupted food supply chain: a step towards achieving food sustainability

    Ranveer Singh Rana, Dinesh Kumar, Kanika Prasad · 2025 · British Food Journal · 4 citations

    PurposeThis study aims to reduce carbon emissions and minimize waste in the event of disruptions in a short and fast-food perishable such as fruits, vegetables, packaged food items, etc. supply chain through optimal investment in green and preservation technologies.Design/methodology/approach This study utilized a Hessian matrix approach to optimize decision variables with an objective to maximize the profit function.FindingsThe study demonstrates that investing in both green and preservation technology within a short and fast-food supply chain is highly beneficial for decarbonization and waste reduction and it leads to profit maximization. It has been shown with the help of a numerical expe

  23. Investigating the Potential Effects of Food Waste Reduction Interventions Within the Leafy Vegetable Supply Chain in Kermanshah Province, Iran

    Mostafa Moradi, Hossein Shabanali Fami, Ali Akbar Barati, et al. · 2024 · Agriculture

    Despite the increasing concerns regarding meeting the world’s future food demand, there is still a substantial quantity of food loss and waste (FLW), particularly concerning fruits and vegetables. In the case of Kermanshah province, inefficiencies within the leafy vegetable supply chpain (LVSC) contribute to an alarming annual waste of 39% of leafy vegetables. Although several studies have proposed strategies and recommendations for mitigating this waste, the actual impact of these interventions on reducing FLW has not been thoroughly examined or quantified. Using System Dynamic Modeling, this study offers a novel approach to quantify the impact of interventions on waste reduction. The quant

  24. Food loss and waste reduction – a new challenge for all stakeholders in food supply chain

    Željko Vaško, Nemanja Jalić · 2024 · ОДРЖИВИ РАЗВОЈ И УПРАВЉАЊЕ ПРИРОДНИМ РЕСУРСИМА РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРПСКЕ

    In line with the trend of population growth in the world, increasing food production becomes imperative for the agricultural sector, especially since even with the current population, one billion people were malnourished or hungry. The opportunity to increase food production is mainly reduced to increasing yields and is less based on increasing cultivated areas and the number of domestic animals. The productivity of agriculture increases through its intensification, that is, greater application of artificially produced inputs (fertilizers, pesticides, antibiotics, etc.), which threatens the health safety of the food produced in this way and leads to an increase in nature pollution. This clos

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