This report provides the latest estimates by USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) on the amount and value of food … loss in the United States. These estimates are for more than 200 individual foods using ERS’s Loss-Adjusted Food … Availability data. In 2010, an estimated 31 percent or 133 billion pounds of the 430 billion pounds of food produced was not …

Examines the consequences of export-led agricultural growth for food production, food supply, food prices and …

Examines the welfare of the Somali people as depicted by the production and consumption of food. Based on research …

There are few peer-reviewed or major published studies that estimate the total amount of food loss in developed … countries and even fewer attempt to estimate the monetary value. We compiled estimates of the amount and value of food loss for …’s Loss-Adjusted Food Availability data and then aggregated these values to estimate the total value of food loss and the …

There seems to be high interest in the question of food loss and food waste. The comments take up the article in Food … Policy on “Total and per capita value of food loss in the United States”. It is argued that the methodology of calculating … the food loss is questionable. Consequently, the estimates are highly inflated; therefore the authors do not provide …

Reducing food losses and food waste is attracting growing public attention at the international, regional, and national … levels, and is widely acknowledged to contribute to abating interlinked sustainability challenges such as food security …, climate change, and water shortage. However, the pattern and scale of food waste throughout the supply chain remains poorly …

Reducing food losses and food waste is attracting growing public attention at the international, regional, and national … levels, and is widely acknowledged to contribute to abating interlinked sustainability challenges such as food security …, climate change, and water shortage. However, the pattern and scale of food waste throughout the supply chain remains poorly …

In this paper we investigate the economic and environmental efficiency of charities and NGO’s “rescuing” food waste …, using a 2008 case study of food rescue organisations in Australia. We quantify the tonnages, costs, and environmental impact … of food rescued, and then compare food rescue to other food waste disposal methods composting and landfill. To our …

Recent studies show that average diets differ considerably from Food Guide Pyramid recommendations. The gap between … vegetables, notably dark-green leafy and deep-yellow vegetables, and dry beans, peas, and lentils. The change in food consumption … needed to meet Food Guide Pyramid serving recommendations will result in adjustments in U.S. agricultural production, trade …