Food losses in agrifood systems: What we know
In 2015, the United Nations and the G20 put food loss and food waste on the global agenda. While progress has been made since then, the scale of the problem persists because food loss and food waste are measured together, not separately. The paucity of data also poses a challenge. This article revie...
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2023
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| author | Delgado, Luciana Schuster, Monica Torero, Maximo |
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| description | In 2015, the United Nations and the G20 put food loss and food waste on the global agenda. While progress has been made since then, the scale of the problem persists because food loss and food waste are measured together, not separately. The paucity of data also poses a challenge. This article reviews the measurements, causes, and determinants of food loss as well as the interventions to reduce it. The review finds that food loss is considered in isolation, even though it is one of the causes and results of how agrifood systems function. The review calls for improved microdata collection and standardized measurements to separate food loss from food waste. Such efforts would help integrate feedback loops and cascading effects across the value chain with agrifood systems to identify intervention hot spots, trade-offs, and synergies of interventions as well as the effects of food loss reduction on socioeconomic, environmental, and food security goals. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1399962025-10-26T13:01:10Z Food losses in agrifood systems: What we know Delgado, Luciana Schuster, Monica Torero, Maximo data data collection food losses food waste value chain analysis agrifood systems In 2015, the United Nations and the G20 put food loss and food waste on the global agenda. While progress has been made since then, the scale of the problem persists because food loss and food waste are measured together, not separately. The paucity of data also poses a challenge. This article reviews the measurements, causes, and determinants of food loss as well as the interventions to reduce it. The review finds that food loss is considered in isolation, even though it is one of the causes and results of how agrifood systems function. The review calls for improved microdata collection and standardized measurements to separate food loss from food waste. Such efforts would help integrate feedback loops and cascading effects across the value chain with agrifood systems to identify intervention hot spots, trade-offs, and synergies of interventions as well as the effects of food loss reduction on socioeconomic, environmental, and food security goals. 2023-10-05 2024-03-14T12:08:48Z 2024-03-14T12:08:48Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139996 en Open Access Annual Reviews Delgado, Luciana; Schuster, Monica; and Torero, Maximo. 2023. Food losses in agrifood systems: What we know. Annual Review of Resource Economics 15: 41-62. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-072722-025159 |
| spellingShingle | data data collection food losses food waste value chain analysis agrifood systems Delgado, Luciana Schuster, Monica Torero, Maximo Food losses in agrifood systems: What we know |
| title | Food losses in agrifood systems: What we know |
| title_full | Food losses in agrifood systems: What we know |
| title_fullStr | Food losses in agrifood systems: What we know |
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| title_short | Food losses in agrifood systems: What we know |
| title_sort | food losses in agrifood systems what we know |
| topic | data data collection food losses food waste value chain analysis agrifood systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/139996 |
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