Reducing Food Waste in order to become the Zero Hunger Generation

Diana Elena Caprita ()
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Diana Elena Caprita: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of AgriFood and Environmental Economy, Romania

International Conference on Competitiveness of Agro-food and Environmental Economy Proceedings, 2016, vol. 5, 187-201

Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the phenomenon of food wastage by identifying the generating factors, pointing out the solutions and examining the benefits of efficient waste management. The research also reviews the economic, social and environmental side effects trying to provide integrated solutions to reduce it. Starting with awareness campaigns, the right use of advertisements on labels (such as best before and use by) and also by reducing losses in the value chain, wastage will become history. Each of the contributing factors of wastage, represented by impairments during the manufacturing process distribution, packaging, storage or marketing, causes a huge imbalance in the distribution of resources, with tragic consequences: more than 800 million people suffer from malnutrition and hunger. The conclusion of the research is very clear: shortening the supply chain, improving logistics through superior transport conditions and proper packaging are mandatory. This paper aims to signal the need for preventing and reducing food waste, in order to meet the European objective: reducing by half the total amount of waste, until 2025. Otherwise, the outlook is bleak: escalating waste with 40%, reaching 126 million tons by 2020, with tremendous consequences on environment, global economy and, most important, people who will continue to starve to death.

Keywords: Food waste; environment; resources; pollution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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