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 …

At the current time, Hawai?i lacks an established set of benchmark estimates on the availability of food for market … estimation framework to map the existing food supply flows from various sources and to determine the various levels of food … consumption in Hawai?i. The authors suggest modified measures of food self-sufficiency and import dependency to provide a more …