Climate Change and Food Insecurities: The Importance of Food Loss and Waste Reduction in Indonesia

01/01/2023

Rapid increasing population of Indonesia poses a future threat to the food supply for the national demand. Furthermore, global climate change is putting a strain on the food supply chain. Droughts, floods, landslides, and pest/disease attacks all have serious consequences for agricultural product...

Intensifying Effects of Climate Change in Food Loss: A Threat to Food Security in Turkey

26/12/2022

Turkey is increasingly concerned about the effects of climate change, weather unpredictability, and severe events on agricultural production, food loss, and livelihoods. Turkey has long struggled against climate variability and catastrophic climatic events to prevent further declines in agricultu...

Scale and Environmental Impacts of Food Loss and Waste in China—A Material Flow Analysis

27/12/2022

Evidence of China’s food loss and waste (FLW) and its increasing impacts on food security and environmental sustainability is urgently needed to guide policy intervention and avoid unnecessary damage to human health and the environment. This paper estimates the scale of China’s FLW in 2019 and as...

Between perceptions and practices: The religious and cultural aspects of food wastage in households

01/01/2023

Understanding the determinants of food provisioning is crucial for efforts to reduce household food wastage. Various studies have identified a web of interrelated socio-demographic characteristics, values, attitudes, and skills as drivers of household food wastage. Our contribution is in explorin...

Sustainably engaging employees in food wastage reduction: A conscious capitalism perspective

23/02/2023

Although food wastage across the world is preventable, yet it's an endemic problem affecting organizations and societies across the planet. In a shift from the existing assumptions of holding customers responsible, we base our study on the conscious capitalism perspective to argue that organizati...