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Title How can food loss and waste management achieve sustainable development goals?
ID_Doc 72887
Authors Lemaire, A; Limbourg, S
Title How can food loss and waste management achieve sustainable development goals?
Year 2019
Published
DOI 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.06.226
Abstract The main purpose of this literature review is to establish a state of the art of food loss and waste management system that addresses the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal number 12: sustainable consumption and production. The paper constitutes a detailed summary of recent literature on the concepts, product categories, causes, solutions, and research challenges surrounding food loss and waste management. The contribution of this article is a new classification of the causes, solutions and research challenges, based on diverse existing classifications. Solutions for reducing food loss and waste include awareness raising, business process redesign, integrated supply chain models, redistribution, recovery, and disposal. Several research direction propositions came out of this literature review: developing standardised and up-to-date data collection and concept definitions; analysing the 'awareness of the need' concept in redistribution; studying consumer behaviour; examining the performance of local versus global logistics networks in terms of food loss and waste; and identifying the role of packaging in food loss and waste and greenhouse gas emission reduction. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author Keywords Food loss and waste; Sustainable development goals; SDG 12.3; Food waste prevention; Sustainable food supply chain
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000483406000102
WoS Category Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Engineering, Environmental; Environmental Sciences
Research Area Science & Technology - Other Topics; Engineering; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
PDF https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/237959/1/Lemaire-Limbourg.pdf
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