“Stay at Home”: The Effects of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Household Food Waste in Colombia

28/10/2021

Household food waste represents one of the main challenges for sustainable development as this directly affects the economy of food consumers, the loss of natural resources and generates additional greenhouse gas emissions. The COVID-19 pandemic and its mitigation strategies caused one of the mos...

The role of diverse distribution channels in reducing food loss and waste: The case of the Cali tomato supply chain in Colombia

18/04/2020

Food loss and waste (FLW) in developing countries is often high at postharvest stages due to technical and infrastructural constraints, while supermarket expansion has induced organizational, institutional and technological changes in the agrifood supply chains. Here we assess the volume of FLW a...

Reducing post-harvest food losses through innovative collaboration: Insights from the Colombian and Mexican avocado supply chains

21/06/2018

Postharvest losses along food supply chains have far reaching consequences for the environment and affect the social and economic conditions of food supply chain participants, especially of those in developing countries. This paper explores the structural inefficiencies that lead to postharvest l...

Food waste valorization applying the biorefinery concept in the Colombian context: Pre-feasibility analysis of the organic kitchen food waste processing

24/02/2023

Food waste has been profiled as a potential source of added-value products and energy vectors. Nevertheless, the non-standard composition of food waste has been a bottleneck in proposing different biorefinery configurations. This paper aims to analyze organic kitchen food waste (OKFW) as a source...

Life Cycle Assessment of Food Loss Impacts: Case of Banana Postharvest Losses in Sri Lanka

01/03/2023

Banana is one of the most common fruits consumed by Sri Lankans, with particular cultural value, while banana leaves serve as a useful degradable material for traditional food wrapping. Sri Lanka cultivates many varieties of banana for local and export markets, with some indigenous varieties predominately grown for local consumption, and others used in large-scale farming for export.