Wasted Potential
This open access book examines how food systems reforms can support efforts to achieve SDG 12 by reducing food loss and waste in support of sustainable, safe, and nutritious diets in countries at different points of structural transformation. To achieve responsible production and consumption and sup...
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| author | Boiteau, Jocelyn Pingali, Prabhu |
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| description | This open access book examines how food systems reforms can support efforts to achieve SDG 12 by reducing food loss and waste in support of sustainable, safe, and nutritious diets in countries at different points of structural transformation. To achieve responsible production and consumption and support safe and nutritious diets, sustainable food system transformations are needed. Strategies to achieve this transformation focus on increasing production and supply of nutrient-rich foods; efficiently moving food along the value chain to make healthy foods accessible; ensuring that quality diets are affordable; and driving demand for healthy diets via informed food choice. By 2030, the United Nations aims to halve food waste and reduce food loss as part of Sustainable Development Goal target 12.3. Preventing food loss and waste, both in terms of food quantity and food quality, aligns with strategies to promote sustainable diets for all. The authors of this volume approach food loss and waste is in three unique important ways. First, while previous literature on the topic has focused on loss at the retail and consumer stages, this volume uses a food systems lens to examine food loss and waste across the entire range of actors and activities, from production to consumption. This enables an examination of feedback loops between food loss and food security as shifts in food systems occur at different stages of structural transformation. Second, while examining food loss and waste globally, the authors focus particularly on low- and middle-income countries. In doing so, they explore entry points for food loss and waste investment and intervention priorities to deliver healthy diets under different food system contexts. This is in contrast with the existing literature, which primarily uses cases from the U.S. and Europe to examine the phenomenon. Third, this book explores both the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of food loss and waste, using the latest evidence of measurement and prevention across disciplines and across all stages of structural transformation. ‘Wasted Potential provides a rigorous and much needed systems perspective on food loss and waste, expertly bridging the gaps between food security, environmental sustainability, and economic development. Boiteau and Pingali offer a clear, actionable roadmap for aligning food system transformation with global development goals. Their comprehensive approach to tackling food loss and waste brings much-needed coherence to a fragmented field and offers practical guidance for future action to policymakers, researchers, and development practitioners.’ – Jessica Fanzo, Professor of Climate and Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative, Columbia Climate School. The support of the Tata-Cornell Institute made this book possible. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1696322025-11-29T07:45:23Z Wasted Potential Boiteau, Jocelyn Pingali, Prabhu Food loss and waste Measuring food loss Food systems Food quality Supply chain Pathways Sustainable diets Food security Public policy Open Access thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVB Agricultural science thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education::MBNH3 Dietetics and nutrition This open access book examines how food systems reforms can support efforts to achieve SDG 12 by reducing food loss and waste in support of sustainable, safe, and nutritious diets in countries at different points of structural transformation. To achieve responsible production and consumption and support safe and nutritious diets, sustainable food system transformations are needed. Strategies to achieve this transformation focus on increasing production and supply of nutrient-rich foods; efficiently moving food along the value chain to make healthy foods accessible; ensuring that quality diets are affordable; and driving demand for healthy diets via informed food choice. By 2030, the United Nations aims to halve food waste and reduce food loss as part of Sustainable Development Goal target 12.3. Preventing food loss and waste, both in terms of food quantity and food quality, aligns with strategies to promote sustainable diets for all. The authors of this volume approach food loss and waste is in three unique important ways. First, while previous literature on the topic has focused on loss at the retail and consumer stages, this volume uses a food systems lens to examine food loss and waste across the entire range of actors and activities, from production to consumption. This enables an examination of feedback loops between food loss and food security as shifts in food systems occur at different stages of structural transformation. Second, while examining food loss and waste globally, the authors focus particularly on low- and middle-income countries. In doing so, they explore entry points for food loss and waste investment and intervention priorities to deliver healthy diets under different food system contexts. This is in contrast with the existing literature, which primarily uses cases from the U.S. and Europe to examine the phenomenon. Third, this book explores both the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of food loss and waste, using the latest evidence of measurement and prevention across disciplines and across all stages of structural transformation. ‘Wasted Potential provides a rigorous and much needed systems perspective on food loss and waste, expertly bridging the gaps between food security, environmental sustainability, and economic development. Boiteau and Pingali offer a clear, actionable roadmap for aligning food system transformation with global development goals. Their comprehensive approach to tackling food loss and waste brings much-needed coherence to a fragmented field and offers practical guidance for future action to policymakers, researchers, and development practitioners.’ – Jessica Fanzo, Professor of Climate and Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative, Columbia Climate School. The support of the Tata-Cornell Institute made this book possible. 2025-11-29T07:45:22Z 2025-11-29T07:45:22Z 2025-11-28T12:23:21Z 2026 book ONIX_20251128T131701_9783031974113_61 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/108731 9783031974113 9783031974106 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/169632 eng Sustainable Development Goals Series; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth and Environmental Science (R0) open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/108731/1/9783031974113.pdf Springer Nature Springer 10.1007/978-3-031-97411-3 10.1007/978-3-031-97411-3 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a d44d3826-1db3-49e6-8a5f-6cd6436ad8c2 9783031974113 9783031974106 Springer 192 Cham [...] open access |
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