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 …

This paper investigates household food waste in the context of inefficient food production. Food waste is typically … defined as the proportion of edible food that goes unconsumed, whereas inefficiency is measured by a household's inability to … reach some technically efficient production frontier. Because food waste can be avoided through improved efficiency, we …

Ensuring a sufficient level of food for the population in both quantitative and qualitative terms is a priority for … United Nations (UN) stresses the fact that one of the biggest problems the world is facing today is food insecurity. Most … people enjoy food security, but the reverse is an unquestionable daily reality for nearly a billion people around the world …

to which food systems has been incorporated into the comprehensive plans developed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It … finds that food systems have not been adequately integrated into the plans. The plans begin to touch on food systems, but … The plans fail to create a factual basis to support planning for food systems, setting limited goals to support food …

price of formal non-bushmeat food could matter for the incidence of human Ebola virus infections. This paper considers if … Sub-Saharan Africa as increases in food productivity have a favorable and dramatic effect on reducing the incidence of … infections, the extent to which bushmeat is a substitute for food produced in the formal market sector suggests that the relative …

The full benefits of agricultural biotechnology will only be realized if consumers and food manufacturers consider it …

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 …

Over the 2000s', consumers' food purchases have been increasingly informed by supply chain-related issues, with growing … concerns about the sustainability of chains differing for their geographical scope. As a result, short food supply chains and … local food systems have risen to policymakers and food chain stakeholders' attention as more sustainable alternatives to …

Recently, short food supply chains have been thoroughly studied in some countries; however, data are sparse from others …. In Hungary, the local food movement has been developing very fast and an outburst in the number of farmers markets has … short food supply chains are different based on their socio-demographic, farm- and production-related characteristics …

The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications … change in agri-food trade, the increased consolidation in food supply chains, the proliferation of public and private food … standards, high and volatile food prices, and increased vertical coordination in the chains. We investigate what the …