Sustainably feeding the people continues to be a challenge in the present times. Enormous amount of food wastage … aggravate this problem. In most medium- and high-income countries, food wastage mainly occurs at the consumer end. However, in … lower-income countries, food wastage primarily occurs within the supply chain. Lack of infrastructure for transportation …

This thesis addresses 3 different aspects of food and poverty related problems in developing countries. The first essay … the non homogeneity of food products. This is realized by providing an estimate of the value of the good by means of a … hedonic food price model. A model is proposed that decomposes unit values into spatial price factors and a value component …