Food Loss and Waste Policy: From Theory to Practice

ISBN-13: 9781032129358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 264 str.

Simone Busetti; Noemi Pace

Opis

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted.

Spis treści

Part 1: UNDERSTANDING FOOD LOSS AND WASTE  1. Assessing food loss and waste: approaches, methodologies and practices  2. The policy problem: The causes and consequences of food loss and waste  3. Tackling food loss and waste: An overview of policy actions  Part 2: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES  4. The contribution of social protection to reducing food loss and waste  5. Reducing food loss in rural development projects. Examples from IFAD’s investments  6. The European Union and the fight against food waste and losses: from policy to practice  Part 3: NATIONAL POLICIES  7. Did France really ban food waste? Lessons from a pioneering national regulation  8. Food waste policy in Italy: From decision to implementation  9. Food waste policy in Romania: A case study  10. Japan’s practices on food waste reduction  11. The Political Economy of Anti-Food-Waste in China: From Anti-Corruption to Enhancing Food Security  12. History and Legacy of the U.S. Good Samaritan Food Donation Law  Part 4: LOCAL INITIATIVES  13. Social innovation for food waste reduction: Surplus food redistribution  14. Mitigating barriers to surplus food donation in Italian retail and food service  15. Food waste reduction through food re-distribution actions during Covid 19 in Brazil