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Jul 29, 2019 · Introduction. Food loss and waste (FLW) is recognized as a serious threat to food security, the economy, and the environment [1]. Approximately one-third of all food produced for human consumption (1.3 billion tons of edible food) is lost and wasted across the entire supply chain every year [2]. The monetary value of this amount of FLW is ...
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Aug 23, 2024 · Food loss occurs along the food supply chain up to the sales level, whereas food waste refers to what is thrown away by retailers and consumers. Food loss and waste (FLW), the sum of the two, is ...
Jul 29, 2019 · 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 ...
- Rovshen Ishangulyyev, Sanghyo Kim, Sang Hyeon Lee
- 2019
Jan 2, 2023 · The simultaneous coexistence of food loss and waste and prevalence of hunger, undernourishment and malnutrition represents a failure of contemporary food systems. While the reduction in food loss and waste is a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target, this reduction can also help in the achievement of other SDGs, including achieving zero hunger and reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ...
- 10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_31
- 2023/01/02
Dec 7, 2020 · Citizen science, therefore, has the potential not only to improve our understanding of the problems of food loss and waste but also help to address these issues at a range of scales. However, its use in this sphere is, as yet, relatively limited. This is also true in the wider field of agriculture and food science.
Oct 1, 2021 · Mitigation strategies with an infrastructural focus are mainly linked to developing countries that need to: invest and develop infrastructures (e.g., roads, cold chain facilities and refrigerated trucks) and develop new technologies and methods (e.g., improve packing methods during harvesting, improve maintenance of cold storage facilities and develop new containers and new packaging); issues ...
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Feb 25, 2024 · Up to 2024, a total of 888 papers were identified in this research, focusing on the intersection of food supply chain (FSC), food waste, food loss. Among the analysis of 1226 terms, where the minimum number of occurrences of a term was 7 times, 31 terms met the threshold for three keywords: food supply chain (FSC), food waste, and food loss.
