Consumers discard a lot more food than widely believed: Estimates of global food waste using an energy gap approach and affluence elasticity of food waste

This work provides an internationally comparable consumer food waste dataset based on food availability, energy gap and consumer affluence. Such data can be used for constructing meaningful and internationally comparable metrics on food waste, such as those for Sustainable Development Goal 12. The d...

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Main Authors: Verma, Monika van den Bos, Vreede, Linda de, Achterbosch, Thom, Rutten, Martine M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Public Library of Science 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171382

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