TY - GEN
T1 - Value-Chain Wide Food Waste Management
T2 - 5th International Conference on Decision Support System Technology, EmC-ICDSST 2019
AU - Zhao, Guoqing
AU - Liu, Shaofeng
AU - Chen, Huilan
AU - Lopez, Carmen
AU - Hernandez, Jorge
AU - Guyon, Cécile
AU - Iannacone, Rina
AU - Calabrese, Nicola
AU - Panetto, Hervé
AU - Kacprzyk, Janusz
AU - Alemany, Mme
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The agriculture value chain, from farm to fork, has received enormous attention because of its key role in achieving United Nations Global Challenges Goals. Food waste occurs in many different forms and at all stages of the food value chain, it has become a worldwide issue that requires urgent actions. However, the management of food waste has been traditionally segmented and in an isolated manner. This paper reviews existing work that has been done on food waste management in literature by taking a holistic approach, in order to identify the causes of food waste, food waste prevention strategies, and elicit recommendations for future work. A five step systematic literature review has been adopted for a thorough examination of the existing research on the topic and new insights have been obtained. The findings suggest that the main sources of food waste include food overproduction and surplus, food waste caused by processing, logistical inconsistencies, and households. Main food waste prevention strategies have been revealed in this paper include policy solutions, packaging solutions, date-labelling solutions, logistics solutions, changing consumers’ behaviours, and reuse and redistribution solutions. Future research directions such as using value chain models to reduce food waste and forecasting food waste have been identified in this paper. This study makes a contribution to the extant literature in the field of food waste management by discovering main causes of food waste in the value chain and eliciting prevention strategies that can be used to reduce/eliminate relevant food waste.
AB - The agriculture value chain, from farm to fork, has received enormous attention because of its key role in achieving United Nations Global Challenges Goals. Food waste occurs in many different forms and at all stages of the food value chain, it has become a worldwide issue that requires urgent actions. However, the management of food waste has been traditionally segmented and in an isolated manner. This paper reviews existing work that has been done on food waste management in literature by taking a holistic approach, in order to identify the causes of food waste, food waste prevention strategies, and elicit recommendations for future work. A five step systematic literature review has been adopted for a thorough examination of the existing research on the topic and new insights have been obtained. The findings suggest that the main sources of food waste include food overproduction and surplus, food waste caused by processing, logistical inconsistencies, and households. Main food waste prevention strategies have been revealed in this paper include policy solutions, packaging solutions, date-labelling solutions, logistics solutions, changing consumers’ behaviours, and reuse and redistribution solutions. Future research directions such as using value chain models to reduce food waste and forecasting food waste have been identified in this paper. This study makes a contribution to the extant literature in the field of food waste management by discovering main causes of food waste in the value chain and eliciting prevention strategies that can be used to reduce/eliminate relevant food waste.
KW - Cause of waste
KW - Food waste generation
KW - Food waste prevention strategies
KW - Systematic literature review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066120980&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-18819-1_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-18819-1_4
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85066120980
SN - 9783030188184
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 41
EP - 54
BT - Decision Support Systems IX
A2 - Dargam, Fatima
A2 - Moreno, José Maria
A2 - Freitas, Paulo Sérgio Abreu
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 27 May 2019 through 29 May 2019
ER -