Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research
Despite broad agreement in circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps in information still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps, summarizes recent research that tries to fill these gaps and identifies five challenges for researchers, policymak...
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| author | Cattaneo, Andrea Sánchez, Marco V. Torero, Máximo Vos, Rob |
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| description | Despite broad agreement in circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps in information still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps, summarizes recent research that tries to fill these gaps and identifies five challenges for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in reducing FLW. The five challenges identified are: (i) measuring and monitoring FLW, (ii) assessing benefits and costs of FLW reduction and the tradeoffs involved, (iii) designing FLW-related policies and interventions under limited information, (iv) understanding how interactions between stages along food value chain and across countries affect outcomes of FLW reduction efforts, (v) preparing for income transitions and the shifting relative importance of losses and waste as economies develop. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1425502025-02-25T18:09:12Z Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research Cattaneo, Andrea Sánchez, Marco V. Torero, Máximo Vos, Rob value chains supply chains food wastes policies food losses research food safety food security public policies Despite broad agreement in circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps in information still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps, summarizes recent research that tries to fill these gaps and identifies five challenges for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in reducing FLW. The five challenges identified are: (i) measuring and monitoring FLW, (ii) assessing benefits and costs of FLW reduction and the tradeoffs involved, (iii) designing FLW-related policies and interventions under limited information, (iv) understanding how interactions between stages along food value chain and across countries affect outcomes of FLW reduction efforts, (v) preparing for income transitions and the shifting relative importance of losses and waste as economies develop. 2021-01-01 2024-05-22T12:10:39Z 2024-05-22T12:10:39Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142550 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101958 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101895 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101860 https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/food-policy/vol/98/suppl/C Open Access Elsevier Cattaneo, Andrea; Sánchez, Marco V.; Torero, Maximo; and Vos, Rob. 2021. Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research. Food Policy 98(January 2021): 101974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101974 |
| spellingShingle | value chains supply chains food wastes policies food losses research food safety food security public policies Cattaneo, Andrea Sánchez, Marco V. Torero, Máximo Vos, Rob Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research |
| title | Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research |
| title_full | Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research |
| title_fullStr | Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research |
| title_short | Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research |
| title_sort | reducing food loss and waste five challenges for policy and research |
| topic | value chains supply chains food wastes policies food losses research food safety food security public policies |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142550 |
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