Capturing Waste or Capturing Innovation? Comparing Self-Organising Potentials of Surplus Food Redistribution Initiatives to Prevent Food Waste

Spring, Charlotte; Biddulph, Robin

doi:10.3390/su12104252

Cited by 22 publications

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“…Value-added preparation includes social enterprises that use SF as a raw material to make new products. An example of this is Toast Ale in England, a beer made using surplus bread in place of virgin barley, with profits donated to charities [76]; another example is RecuperAle in Italy, which uses the same method, but involves detainees in the production [77]. A similar method is used to make many other products (jams, chutneys, juices, etc.).…”

Section: Human Reusementioning

confidence: 99%

A Hierarchical Pyramid for Food Waste Based on a Social Innovation Perspective

Lombardi

Costantino²

2021

Sustainability

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Food waste (FW) represents one of the greatest concerns facing mankind today; thus, the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development establishes that it must be halved by 2030. European Union legislators have taken part in this debate by publishing Directive 2018/851 to monitor the FW reduction goals, according to the waste hierarchical pyramid approach. At present, there are several proposed FW hierarchical pyramids, but these do not regard the associations between the level of waste-tackling strategies and social innovation (SI) models. Thus, the paper aims to build a hierarchical pyramid that considers, for each step of the food-supply chain and each level of the pyramid, all the FW social innovation models. A qualitative analysis of academic studies, institutional documents, and specific projects has been conducted. The results confirm the gap in the scientific literature and the lack of a systematic classification of SI activities to reduce FW. Furthermore, current SI practices are actually more focused on the human reuse of FW than on prevention, whereas SI models based on prevention might return the FWL issue to its systematic dimension. This information will help policymakers to reconsider the structural causes of FW inside the agro-food system, and not only its final consequences.

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Section: Human Reusementioning

confidence: 99%

A Hierarchical Pyramid for Food Waste Based on a Social Innovation Perspective

Lombardi

Costantino²

2021

Sustainability

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“…A study (Spring & Biddulph, 2020) has identified the rapid global growth of surplus food redistribution initiatives relying on volunteer activities mediated by ICT-based platforms. The involvements and contributions of cultures, organisational facts and internal experiences has also been explored by another study (Rut, Davies, & Ng, 2020).…”

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A Game Theoretic Framework for Surplus Food Distribution in Smart Cities and Beyond

Sanyal¹,

Singh²,

Xhafa³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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Food waste is a major challenge for the present world. It is the precursor to several socioeconomic problems that are plaguing the modern society. To counter the same and to, simultaneously, stand by the undernourished, surplus food redistribution has surfaced as a viable solution. Information and Communications Technology (ICT)mediated food redistribution is a highly scalable approach and it percolates into the masses far better. Even if ICT is not brought into the picture, the presence of food surplus redistribution in developing countries like India is scarce and is limited to only a few of the major cities. The discussion of a surplus food redistribution framework under strategic settings is a less discussed topic around the globe. This paper aims at addressing a surplus food redistribution framework under strategic settings, thereby facilitating a smoother exchange of surplus food in the smart cities of developing countries, and beyond. As ICT is seamlessly available in smart cities, the paper aims to focus the framework in these cities. However, this can be extended beyond the smart cities to places with greater human involvement.

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“…Thus, FLW and obesity are rising in EU and, simultaneously, 33 million people cannot afford a quality meal every second day making food assistance indispensable in several Member States. Many initiatives have emerged to mitigate FLW [ 13 ] but a balance between decrease food waste and requirements of food safety should be also considered in designing such initiatives [ 14 ], thus generating a “win-win” situation for both food and nutrition safety and environmental sustainability [ 1 ].…”

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Food Losses and Waste: A Needed Assessment for Future Policies

Campoy-Muñoz

Flóres

López

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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About one third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted. For this reason, food losses and waste has become a key priority within worldwide policy circles. This is a major global issue that not only threatens the viability of a sustainable food system but also generates negative externalities in environmental terms. The avoidance of this forbidding wastage would have a positive economic impact on national economies in terms of resource savings. In this paper we look beyond this somewhat traditional resource savings angle and we shift the focus to explore the distributional consequences of food losses and waste reduction using a resource constrained modeling perspective. The impact due to the behavioral shift of each household is therefore explained by two factors. One is the amount of resources saved when the behavioral shift takes place, whereas the other one has to do with the position of households in the food supply chain. By considering the whole supply chain, instead of the common approach based only in reducing waste by consumers, we enrich the empirical knowledge of this issue and improve the quantification of its economic impact. We examine data for three EU countries that present different economic structures (Germany, Spain and Poland) so as to have a broader and more robust viewpoint of the potential results. We find that distributional effects are different for consumers and producers and also across countries. Our results could be useful for policymakers since they indicate that policies should not be driven merely by the size waste but rather on its position within the food supply chain.

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Capturing Waste or Capturing Innovation? Comparing Self-Organising Potentials of Surplus Food Redistribution Initiatives to Prevent Food Waste

Cited by 22 publications

References 52 publications

A Hierarchical Pyramid for Food Waste Based on a Social Innovation Perspective

A Hierarchical Pyramid for Food Waste Based on a Social Innovation Perspective

A Game Theoretic Framework for Surplus Food Distribution in Smart Cities and Beyond

Food Losses and Waste: A Needed Assessment for Future Policies

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