Food Losses in Consumer Cereal Production in Poland in the Context of Food Security and Environmental Impact

Food loss is a serious global problem, particularly in developed countries; the European Union, approximately 20% of food produced each year wasted. losses occur entire agri-food chain, starting from primary production, through post-harvest operations and storage, processing, distribution consumption. The paper presents results studies on evaluation at stage production (agricultural production) consumer cereals Poland context their impact environment ensuring security. It was shown that amount first link chain cereal sector 2017–2018 average 219.6 thousand tonnes per year. level farm averaged 0.91 tonnes, which accounted for 1.7% total production. weight grain waste stage, calculated basis taking into account management methods, amounted to an 117.24 tonnes/year, 23.08% all generated stage. By relating assumed emission factor, it during are responsible 0.608 million CO2.