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 approximately one-third of the food produced for human consumption at the …

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 …