quinta-feira, março 19, 2020

Desperdicio y pérdida de alimentos [Food waste and losses]




Ashish Virk and Kapil Bansal, “An International Perspective of Food Wastage: An Analysis of Legal Policies”. Studies in Indian Place Names (UGC Care Journal), Vol. 40 (2020) 1957-1971 [available on the Internet at https://archives.tpnsindia.org/index.php/sipn/article/view/2670/2578 (last accessed on 19 March 2020)].

Abstract

In European and Asian countries, the largest and increasing part of food is wasted at the consumer level. This  issue has  gained  considerable  public  and  government  attention  in the past decades, to curtail the wastage of food at all the stages, specifically retail chains and consumer  level. By the  time  large  number  of  initiatives  executed  by  different  stakeholders such as policy makers, retailers of France, and NGOs of Denmark and research projects that have and are exploring the issue. Furthermore, the European Parliament has called for 2014 to be the ‘year against food waste’. It is well  known  reason  that  consumers  are  avoiding distorted  food  and  foods  which  are  about  to  expire,  to  the  best  before  date,  in  the  choice situation  of  food  safety  concerns  and  more  reasons  are  behind  this  is  the  lack  of  storage facilities,  family  practices  about  meals  like  choices and  more  interest  in  junk  food  that  the prepared food at home this influences the quantity of food waste created in the household.



Tamar Makov et al., “Social and environmental analysis of food waste abatement via the peer-to-peer sharing economy”. Nature Communications, No. 11 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14899-5 [available on the Internet at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14899-5.pdf (last accessed on 16 March 2020)].

Abstract

Reducing food waste is widely recognized as critical for improving resource efficiency and meeting the nutritional demand of a growing human population. Here we explore whether the sharing economy can provide meaningful assistance to reducing food waste in a relatively low-impact and environmentally-sound way. Analyzing 170,000 postings on a popular peer-to-peer food-sharing app, we find that over 19 months, 90t of food waste with an equivalent retail value of £0.7 million were collected by secondary consumers and diverted from disposal. An environmental analysis focused on Greater London reveals that these exchanges were responsible for avoiding emission of 87–156t of CO2eq. Our results indicate that most exchanges were among users associated with lower income yet higher levels of education. These findings, together with the high collection rates (60% on average) suggest that the sharing economy may offer powerful means for improving resource efficiency and reducing food waste.



Wolfgang Britz et al., “Can Food Waste Reduction in Europe Help to Increase Food Availability and Reduce Pressure on Natural Resources Globally?”. Discussion Paper 2020:1, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn (Forthcoming in German Journal of Agricultural Economics) (2020) 40 pp. [available on the Internet at https://app.box.com/s/sj1x48hhboa7g4m612a9x4qbk7nt21pf (last accessed on 15 February 2020)].

Abstract

In recent years, reducing food waste and loss has become a policy priority in the European Union, but little is known about impacts of related measures in the EU and beyond. This study informs the debate on food waste reduction through a quantitative analysis. It considers adjustment costs for reducing food waste in food processing industries and impacts on food availability, pressure on land and water, and other environmental consequences.  The results suggest that the leakage effects of  global  trade  may offset  almost  all  benefits  of  food  waste  reduction  in  the  EU.  We thus conclude that costly efforts to reduce food waste in the EU cannot be motivated by larger contributions to global food availability and environmental benefits. This highlights the need for global coordination of such policies and/or more targeted actions in the EU which focus on specific production chains, where losses can be reduced and environmental gains obtained at a relatively low cost.



“El Derecho como herramienta para reducir la pérdida y el desperdicio de alimentos: la experiencia en América Latina”. FAO (2020) [Blog Source_e-contrast – blogspot - available on the Internet at https://e-contrast.blogspot.com/2020/02/el-derecho-como-herramienta-para.html (last accessed on 13 February 2020)].


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