Reducing food losses in developing countries: Simple technological solutions, complex adoption along supply chains

The global food system is malfunctioning, leaving large segments of the population undernourished or malnourished, and causing large environmental damage. Food losses in the production, processing and marketing parts of the food systems are part of the problem. Food wasting at the retail, household...

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Autor principal: Vos, Rob
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143671
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description The global food system is malfunctioning, leaving large segments of the population undernourished or malnourished, and causing large environmental damage. Food losses in the production, processing and marketing parts of the food systems are part of the problem. Food wasting at the retail, household and restaurant levels is a serious problem too. The analyses and calls for action in this volume are motivated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 12, i.e. Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns, and specifically, “By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses”. This goal is very much in line with the Encyclical Laudato Si’, where Pope Francis calls for changes to overcome the “throwaway culture”. Food Loss and Waste (FLAW) is a moral issue because of the adverse effects on people and our planet. It is detrimental to the planet due to greenhouse gas emissions and the wasting of the water and land used as inputs, and to people – the poor in particular – whose labor is squandered and whose livelihoods are compromised when FLAW occurs.
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spelling CGSpace1436712025-08-14T18:29:15Z Reducing food losses in developing countries: Simple technological solutions, complex adoption along supply chains Vos, Rob supply chains food wastes technology food losses developing countries The global food system is malfunctioning, leaving large segments of the population undernourished or malnourished, and causing large environmental damage. Food losses in the production, processing and marketing parts of the food systems are part of the problem. Food wasting at the retail, household and restaurant levels is a serious problem too. The analyses and calls for action in this volume are motivated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 12, i.e. Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns, and specifically, “By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses”. This goal is very much in line with the Encyclical Laudato Si’, where Pope Francis calls for changes to overcome the “throwaway culture”. Food Loss and Waste (FLAW) is a moral issue because of the adverse effects on people and our planet. It is detrimental to the planet due to greenhouse gas emissions and the wasting of the water and land used as inputs, and to people – the poor in particular – whose labor is squandered and whose livelihoods are compromised when FLAW occurs. 2020-11-01 2024-05-22T12:15:55Z 2024-05-22T12:15:55Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143671 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101974 Open Access Libreria Editrice Vaticana Vos, Rob. 2020. Reducing food losses in developing countries: Simple technological solutions, complex adoption along supply chains. In Food Loss and Waste Reduction, eds. Joachim von Braun, Marcelo Sanchez, and Roy Steiner. Part IV: The Need for Systemic and Market-Based Approaches and Collaboration, Pp. 143-150. https://www.pas.va/en/publications/scripta-varia/sv147pas/vos.html
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Reducing food losses in developing countries: Simple technological solutions, complex adoption along supply chains
title Reducing food losses in developing countries: Simple technological solutions, complex adoption along supply chains
title_full Reducing food losses in developing countries: Simple technological solutions, complex adoption along supply chains
title_fullStr Reducing food losses in developing countries: Simple technological solutions, complex adoption along supply chains
title_full_unstemmed Reducing food losses in developing countries: Simple technological solutions, complex adoption along supply chains
title_short Reducing food losses in developing countries: Simple technological solutions, complex adoption along supply chains
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topic supply chains
food wastes
technology
food losses
developing countries
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