How much food loss and waste do countries with problems with food security generate?

Worldwide, the number of people suffering from hunger is around 702 and 828 million, and 2.3 billion people have moderate or severe food insecurity. This situation is striking, considering that the vast amount of food discarded globally equals 1.3 billion tons annually. For this reason, in 2015, wor...

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Authors: Durán-Sandoval, Daniel, Durán Romero, Gemma, Uleri, Francesca
Format: article
Publication Date:2023
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repository:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/716249
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/716249
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13050966
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Food loss and waste
Food security
Food supply chain
Economía
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spelling How much food loss and waste do countries with problems with food security generate? Durán-Sandoval, Daniel Durán Romero, Gemma Uleri, Francesca Food loss and waste Food security Food supply chain Economía Worldwide, the number of people suffering from hunger is around 702 and 828 million, and 2.3 billion people have moderate or severe food insecurity. This situation is striking, considering that the vast amount of food discarded globally equals 1.3 billion tons annually. For this reason, in 2015, world leaders agreed to a global agenda for 2030, adopting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Among its objectives, are to fight against poverty, hunger, and gender inequality worldwide and achieve environmental sustainability. With this framework, this article uses a top-down mass balance approach to calculate food loss and waste (FLW) by country’s food security level. In addition, it explores the causes of FLW and its impacts on natural resources, climate change, food security, and the SDGs in countries with a weak and moderate level of food security. The estimated global FLW was 1498 million tons of food in 2017. The most food discarded was concentrated in countries with good food security, 894.3 million tons. In contrast, the lowest food discard occurred in countries with a weak level of food security, 11.4 million tons. The primary outcome of this paper is to establish a link between the levels of food security and food loss in different countries, which may serve as a guide for the design of specific public policies MDPI http://hdl.handle.net/10486/716249 https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13050966
title How much food loss and waste do countries with problems with food security generate?
spellingShingle How much food loss and waste do countries with problems with food security generate?
Durán-Sandoval, Daniel
Food loss and waste
Food security
Food supply chain
Economía
title_short How much food loss and waste do countries with problems with food security generate?
title_full How much food loss and waste do countries with problems with food security generate?
title_fullStr How much food loss and waste do countries with problems with food security generate?
title_full_unstemmed How much food loss and waste do countries with problems with food security generate?
title_sort How much food loss and waste do countries with problems with food security generate?
author Durán-Sandoval, Daniel
author_facet Durán-Sandoval, Daniel
Durán Romero, Gemma
Uleri, Francesca
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Uleri, Francesca
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topic Food loss and waste
Food security
Food supply chain
Economía
topic_facet Food loss and waste
Food security
Food supply chain
Economía
description Worldwide, the number of people suffering from hunger is around 702 and 828 million, and 2.3 billion people have moderate or severe food insecurity. This situation is striking, considering that the vast amount of food discarded globally equals 1.3 billion tons annually. For this reason, in 2015, world leaders agreed to a global agenda for 2030, adopting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Among its objectives, are to fight against poverty, hunger, and gender inequality worldwide and achieve environmental sustainability. With this framework, this article uses a top-down mass balance approach to calculate food loss and waste (FLW) by country’s food security level. In addition, it explores the causes of FLW and its impacts on natural resources, climate change, food security, and the SDGs in countries with a weak and moderate level of food security. The estimated global FLW was 1498 million tons of food in 2017. The most food discarded was concentrated in countries with good food security, 894.3 million tons. In contrast, the lowest food discard occurred in countries with a weak level of food security, 11.4 million tons. The primary outcome of this paper is to establish a link between the levels of food security and food loss in different countries, which may serve as a guide for the design of specific public policies
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