Food waste within food supply chains: quantification and potential for change to 2050
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Food waste within food supply chains: quantification and potential for change to 2050
Food waste in the global food supply chain is reviewed in relation to the prospects for feeding a population of nine billion by 2050. Different definitions of food waste with respect to the complexities of food supply chains (FSCs)are discussed. An international literature review found a dearth of data on food waste and estimates varied widely; those for post-harvest losses of grain in developi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0126