The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that in 2010-2012, 868 million people were undernourished world-wide. At the sam time, FAO reported that approximately 1.3 billion tons of food were lost or wasted globally in 2007, which was equivalent to...

Agriculture and food systems are in urgent need of transformation. Various foresight reports unpack food systems’ challenges and propose diverse pathways of change towards sustainability. We interrogate the framings and proposed pathways of eleven selected reports from a food system...

The paper meets the pork producers, in terms of identifying the cost elements for biological material introduced at fattening, which is one of the most important categories of variable expenditures. In the specialized swine breeding systems (breeding farms), the first product value quantifiable...