One third of the entire food produced for our consumption is either lost or wasted at some point of the food supply … chain. The problem of food waste does not only intensify the elementary problem of food insecurity in wasting precious … nourishment - originally intended to be consumed - connected with its economic value, but the processing and disposal of food also …

Food waste has become a topic of national and international concern, and an assortment of responses have developed …. Identifying the formal and informal tools available to regulate food waste is a critical step in devising adequate solutions …. Using the taxonomy developed by Lawrence Lessig, this article describes how food waste is currently being regulated through …

Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data … on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household …-level food waste via a stochastic production frontier model in which food waste is identified as input inefficiency. For …