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Postharvest losses and waste in developed and less developed countries: opportunities to improve resource use
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In this paper, the authors compare and contrast postharvest food losses (PHLs) and waste in developed countries (especially the USA and the UK) with those in less-developed countries (LDCs), especially the case of cereals in sub-Saharan Africa.Abstract:
This review compares and contrasts postharvest food losses (PHLs) and waste in developed countries (especially the USA and the UK) with those in less developed countries (LDCs), especially the case of cereals in sub-Saharan Africa. Reducing food losses offers an important way of increasing food availability without requiring additional production resources, and in LDCs it can contribute to rural
development and poverty reduction by improving agribusiness livelihoods. The critical factors governing PHLs and food waste are mostly after the farm gate in developed countries but before the farm gate in LDCs. In the foreseeable future (e.g. up to 2030), the main drivers for reducing PHLs differ: in the developed world, they include consumer education campaigns, carefully targeted taxation and private and public sector partnerships sharing the responsibility for loss reduction. The LDCs’ drivers include more widespread education of farmers in the causes of PHLs; better infrastructure to connect smallholders to markets; more effective value chains that provide sufficient financial incentives at the producer level; opportunities to adopt collective marketing and better technologies supported by access to microcredit; and the public and private sectors sharing the investment costs and
risks in market-orientated interventions.read more
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Climate Change and Food Systems
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The food waste hierarchy as a framework for the management of food surplus and food waste
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the factors that give rise to food waste throughout the food supply chain, and propose a framework to identify and prioritize the most appropriate options for prevention and management of food waste.
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Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
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TL;DR: Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) is unique among the sectors considered in this volume, since the mitigation potential is derived from both an enhancement of removals of greenhouse gases (GHG), as well as reduction of emissions through management of land and livestock as discussed by the authors.
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Total and per capita value of food loss in the United States
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented estimates of the amount and value of food loss for more than 200 individual foods in the United States using the US Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service's Loss-Adjusted Food Availability data.
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Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition.
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TL;DR: The main pathways by which climate change may affect the authors' food production systems-agriculture, fisheries, and livestock-as well as the socioeconomic forces that may influence equitable distribution are reviewed.
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TL;DR: Stuart's "Waste" as mentioned in this paper investigates how the way we live now has created a global food crisis and what we can do to fix it, and how to make the most of what we have.
Missing food : the case of postharvest grain losses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nancy Morgan,Gunnar Larson +1 more
TL;DR: The postharvest losses (PHL) can and do occur all along the chain from farm to fork, which reduces real income for all consumers and especially affects the poor as mentioned in this paper.