for coping with food production volatility. …

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 …

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 …