Toolkit : Reducing the food wastage footprint
- Bib ID:
- 6485124
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Rome Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013
- ©2013
- 102 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm + 1 volume (14 pages) in pocket.
- ISBN:
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- 925107741X
- 9789251077412 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: Reduce
- Definition
- Impact of food wastage on natural resources and implications for food wastage reduction
- Main impact of food wastage on natural resources
- The impact of food wastage on natural resources increases along the food supply chain
- The food wastage hotspots along the supply chain vary geographically
- The production of some products consumes more natural resources than others
- Challenges of natural resources savings from reduction of food wastage
- Tips for reducing food wastage
- Raising awareness about food wastage
- Developing communication campaigns
- Promoting food wastage audits
- Improving communication along the supply chain to match demand and supply of food
- Improving organization within institutions
- Improving communication between the different stakeholders in the supply chain
- Developing improved food harvest, storage, processing, transportation and retailing processes
- Contents note continued: Improving harvest techniques and post-harvest storage
- Improving processing techniques
- Improving packaging
- Improving transportation
- Improving retailing
- Improving quantity planning for food services
- Improving consumption habits
- Implementing legislation to lower food wastage
- Implementing policy frameworks and strategies to reduce harvest and post-harvest losses
- Implementing legislation to prevent and reduce food wastage
- Revising regulation on `best-before' and `use-by' dates
- Revising regulation on aesthetic requirements for fruit and vegetables
- Regulating unfair practices in the retail supply chain
- Reuse
- Definition
- Impact on natural resources
- Reuse vs Reduce
- Reuse vs Recycle
- Tips for reusing food wastage
- Developing markets for products which wouldn't have stayed in the food chain otherwise
- Gleaning unharvested produce
- Contents note continued: Developing markets for products rejected by retailers but still good to be consumed
- Redistributing food to the ones in need
- Feeding to livestock food not fit for human consumption
- Recycle / Recover
- Definition
- Impact on natural resources
- Tips for food wastage recycling and recovering
- Recreating food from by-products and food waste
- Anaerobic digestion
- Composting
- In-vessel composting
- Home composting
- Incineration with energy recovery
- Rendering
- Landfill (burying or dumping): last resort option
- Impact on natural resources
- The landfilling dilemma
- New regulations and market-based instruments can drive changes.
- Toolkit, reducing the food wastage footprint
- Annex, guidelines and pledges favouring food wastage reduction.
- Notes:
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- "Food Wastage Footprint"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, issuing body
- Also Titled:
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- Toolkit, reducing the food wastage footprint
- Reducing the food wastage footprint
- Annex, guidelines and pledges favouring food wastage reduction
- Guidelines and pledges favouring food wastage reduction
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- Until 2083 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Publication date:
- 2013
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