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Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 9 p.

Author Cattaneo, A.; Sánchez, M.V.; Torero, M.; Vos, R.;

Publisher Elsevier B.V. ;

Product type Article

Synopsis (short abstract) Despite broad agreement in policy circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps ininformation still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps, summarizes recent research thattries to fill these gaps and identifies five challenges for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in reducingFLW. The five challenges identified are: (i) measuring and monitoring FLW, (ii) assessing benefits and costs ofFLW reduction and the tradeoffs involved, (iii) designing FLW-related policies and interventions under limitedinformation, (iv) understanding how interactions between stages along food value chain and across countriesaffect outcomes of FLW reduction efforts, (v) preparing for income transitions and the shifting relative importanceof losses and waste as economies develop.

This open access article is academically peer-reviewed and published externally in Food Policy, Volume 98, January 2021, 101974

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Andrea Cattaneo, Marco V. Sánchez, Máximo Torero, Rob Vos
Reducing food loss and waste: Five challenges for policy and research
Food Policy, Volume 98, 2021, 101974
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101974

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