IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/19680_29.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Empirical approaches to assess impacts of food loss and waste on food systems productivity and sustainability

In: Handbook on Public Policy and Food Security

Author

Listed:
  • Lerato Phali
  • Mancoba Mndzebele
  • Pamela Madududu
  • Prisca Atieno

Abstract

Food loss and waste threaten food system sustainability and productivity through climate change, land degradation and eutrophication. This chapter reviews methods to measure the impact of food loss and waste on food system productivity and sustainability to shape stakeholder policies, programs and businesses towards sustainable production and consumption. The findings are that life cycle assessment (LCA) quantifies the environmental effects of FLW and can guide the selection of environmentally friendly food system processes and techniques. A modular applied general equilibrium modelling tool employs a system-wide bio-economic simulation to assess the impact of household food waste. On the other hand, distance to target approach, nutritional food loss footprint, nutritional cost footprint, material flow analysis, aggregate self-reported method, waste composition analysis and food waste diaries quantify food loss and waste along food supply chains. Quantifying FLW and its impacts is critical for targeting policy formulation and implementation to address the problem.

Suggested Citation

  • Lerato Phali & Mancoba Mndzebele & Pamela Madududu & Prisca Atieno, 2024. "Empirical approaches to assess impacts of food loss and waste on food systems productivity and sustainability," Chapters, in: Sheryl L. Hendriks & Suresh C. Babu (ed.), Handbook on Public Policy and Food Security, chapter 29, pages 299-310, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:19680_29
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781839105449.00034
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:19680_29. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.