Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data … on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household …-level food waste via a stochastic production frontier model in which food waste is identified as input inefficiency. For …

Food and eating habits, together with adjacent agricultural activities have had and an important role in the … development of modern society and the individual itself. Besides its nutritional role, food has become a main socio …-cultural determinant, food consumption patterns being influenced, on one hand, by psycho-sensory and quality characteristics of the food …

This paper investigates household food waste in the context of inefficient food production. Food waste is typically … defined as the proportion of edible food that goes unconsumed, whereas inefficiency is measured by a household's inability to … reach some technically efficient production frontier. Because food waste can be avoided through improved efficiency, we …

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 …

Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. These do not necessarily conflict, but appropriate balance must be ensured …

The role of culture in connection with the development of food and bioeconomy issues has gained growing importance in … in this special issue: cultural ecosystem services, cultural issues in the organisation of food chains, culture and food … characteristics. In a way, the common denominator of these papers is the link between culture, food and territory, taken from …

Transition towards sustainable food systems demands a change to integrated or territorial policy approaches and … boundary-spanning governance arrangements. Territorial approaches provide an effective framework to address food systems … governance approach to the food governance debate and introduces the concept of participatory multi-stakeholder food platforms as …

This article, focusing on produce and grain, discusses the environmental and climate change impacts of food production … environmental energy costs in the food supply …

Nutrition concerns and food waste are a priority for the European Union, and the implementation of Green Pact policies … is of major interest to all those involved in the food chain sector. The main purpose of this paper is to conduct an in … directions on Green Deal policies in the food chain. 672 documents published between 2000 and 2021 were identified in the Web of …

Research to identify initiatives to reduce food waste (FW) in Romania is quite limited, and existing studies at the … scale. In this context, the aim of the paper is to highlight good practices for preventing and reducing food waste in the EU …, projects and platforms, organizations involved in volunteering, food banks, mobile applications, social innovation, corporate …