Encuesta sobre comportamiento familiar frente al desperdicio de alimentos y determinación del costo nutricional de éste, en una muestra de hogares en Chile: resultados de un estudio piloto

17/01/2022

Las pérdidas y desperdicios de alimentos son considerados uno de los mayores problemas ambientales y sociales a nivel mundial. Respecto de los desperdicios, la evidencia internacional muestra que la mayor parte ocurre a nivel de hogar, representando un costo económico y nutricional evitable para ...

Food waste generation at the household level in Argentina. Identifying high waste foods and behaviours

05/10/2022

In the year 2020, the Farm to Fork strategy was established intending to approach and mitigate many environmental challenges like food waste. To develop food loss and waste reduction and management strategies, there is a need to correctly diagnose the current situation. Argentina is a country ran...

Diagnóstico y estrategias para gestionar residuos de cocina y alimentos en un comedor institucional en Buenos Aires, Argentina

26/06/2022

Clasificar y cuantificar los residuos de cocina y alimentos es una estrategia necesaria para mejorar la sostenibilidad de la gestión de residuos. El objetivo de este estudio fue cuantificar y describir los residuos sólidos generados en la cocina (zona de procesamiento) y el comedor de una inst...

Assessment and Analysis of the Fruit and Vegetable Losses Due to Its Transportation in Mexico City Wholesale Market

01/01/2021

There is scarce information on the loss of fruits and vegetables registered in the wholesale market of Mexico City, one of the biggest wholesale markets in the world. Considering the above, it is important to generate data on the losses generated in Mexico City wholesale market and to analyze the...

Food loss in the agricultural sector of a developing country: Transitioning to a more sustainable approach. The case of Jalisco, Mexico

21/10/2021

World hunger, food insecurity and climate change are some of the most complex problems related to food systems, and there is an urgency to reform these systems with long-term sustainability in mind. The minimization of food loss (FL) is one of the main contemporary challenges required to achieve ...