Food Waste: Farms, distributors, retailers, and households

Hamilton, Stephen F.; Richards, Timothy J.; Roe, Brian E.

doi:10.1016/bs.hesagr.2022.03.001

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“…When the price is too low, a farmer may make a decision (which is completely right for him) not to harvest the crop and thus save the cost of harvesting, sorting, and transportation. It follows that striving for zero food loss is impractical [14].…”

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Food Security in Israel: Challenges and Policies

Kimhi

2024

Foods

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This article analyzes Israel’s food security in comparison to other developed countries, using multiple indicators divided into four sections: food availability, food affordability, food quality and safety, and natural resources and resilience. Overall, the state of food security in Israel is better than in most countries, but the threats to food security arising from the triple risk of climate change, international conflicts, and disruptions in global supply chains, require better preparation for the future. Israel’s population growth and the slowdown in the growth rate of its agricultural production, as well as the short-term political desire to reduce prices, are leading the country to increasingly rely on food imports. Such imports expose Israel to even greater global risks, and require the formulation of a risk-management strategy that will balance local production and imports. The global triple risk to food security is currently exacerbated for Israel by the risk of shortage of labor due to the security situation, making this risk-management strategy even more necessary. This calls for the establishment of a governmental authority to oversee the formulation of a long-term food-security strategy, to break it down into feasible objectives and policy measures, and to supervise their implementation. Most importantly, in order to maintain and perhaps even enhance the productive capacity of the agricultural sector, the government must reinstall trust between farmers and the state by establishing a stable long-term policy environment.

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Food Security in Israel: Challenges and Policies

Kimhi

2024

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“…For instance, a consumer encountering a stock-out tends to reduce expenditures in the affected category, skip purchases altogether even when close substitutes are available (Campo et al, 2003), and may even feel inclined to not patronize the retailer in the future (Fitzsimons, 2000). Thus, even in the face of uncertain demand and the risk of having unsold inventory requiring disposal, food retailers may seek full availability in important categories (Hamilton et al, 2022), and have been observed to make significant investments in reducing stock-outs in response to competitive pressures (Matsa, 2011). Stock-outs may, at times, be unavoidable as food retailers face an uncertain demand, even in the absence of the pandemic and its pursuant challenges.…”

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Stocking up and stocking out: Food retail stock‐outs, consumer demand, and prices during the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020

McLaughlin

Stevens

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Monitoring food retail stock-outs or the unplanned unavailability of certain food items for purchase assists policymakers in responding to food supply chain disruptions. This study focuses on identifying food stockouts using store-level scanner data on US grocery store sales during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The total median stock-out rates of fixed-weight items increased by approximately 130% after March 15, 2020. Categories such as meat and poultry products, some convenience and frozen foods, baby formula, and carbonated beverages had the highest stock-out rates. The analysis also explores the relationship between stock-out rates, sales increases, and food prices during the pandemic.

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Inventory management and loss in beer retailing

Richards

Hamilton

2022

Agribusiness

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Food waste, or loss, at the wholesale and retail levels accounts for some 40% of the total amount of supply-chain waste.While zero waste is never optimal, there are managerial variables that contribute to the level of loss. In this paper, we use data from a large beverage distributor to estimate the most important causes of loss, and investigate which can be controlled in an economically-viable way. Controlling for a range of important environmental (uncontrollable) variables, we find that competitive pricing, case sets, assortment size, package size, and inefficiency are the most important determinants of loss. However, our most important finding highlights the importance of "discretion over rules" in inventory management as salesforce discretion in delivering less-than-ordered amounts is statistically important and one of the only ways management can directly influence supply-chain loss. Our findings contribute to the growing literature on food and beverage supply-chain sustainability, food loss and waste, and inventory management. As such, our findings are likely to be of interest to both managers in the food and beverage supply chain (manufacturers, distributors, and retailers) and policy makers interested in reducing food and beverage loss and improving food system sustainability.

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Food Waste: Farms, distributors, retailers, and households

Cited by 5 publications

References 142 publications

Food Security in Israel: Challenges and Policies

Food Security in Israel: Challenges and Policies

Stocking up and stocking out: Food retail stock‐outs, consumer demand, and prices during the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020

Inventory management and loss in beer retailing

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