Environmental Conservation and Food Supply

The environmental dimension of food supply chains

Dr Silvia Estrada-Flores is Principal Consultant of Food Chain Intelligence, a consultancy business that provides advice in the practical aspects of the supply chain of perishable foods, from gate to plate; technical intelligence on the state of food logistics and food value chains; and operating procedures and plans to achieve an integrated supply chain. Silvia has worked extensively as a cons...

Parasites and the Food Supply

1990). Today, that figure has multiplied by more than a factor of 8. In the past, the risk of human infection with parasites was considered to be limited to distinct geographic regions because of parasites’ adaptations to specific definitive hosts, select intermediate hosts and particular environmental conditions. These barriers are slowly being breeched—first by international travel developing...

Food Waste Management Scoping Study U.s. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery April

To support municipal solid waste (MSW) characterization efforts, EPA conducted a scoping study on food waste and the methods by which they are managed. The end-of-life sustainable food management (SFM) techniques presented in this scoping study include practices currently used as well as emerging technologies. While the research did not result in much quantifiable data, this study provides summ...

The global food supply.

There is currently a wide divergence of opinion as to whether in the year 2000 there will be sufficient food supplies to feed a prospective world population of 7 billion. The pessimists warn that even before that time there may be widespread outbreaks of famine, complete exhaustion of our natural resources, a hopelessly deteriorated physical environment, and a world ruled by virtual chaos. The ...

Issues Paper: Organic Agriculture and Environmental Stability of the Food Supply