Missing Food, Missing Data? A Critical Review of Global Food Losses and Food Waste Data
Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research · +6 more institutions
Abstract
Food losses and food waste (FLW) have become a global concern in recent years and emerge as a priority in the global and national political agenda (e.g., with Target 12.3 in the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals). A good understanding of the availability and quality of global FLW data is a prerequisite for tracking progress on reduction targets, analyzing environmental impacts, and exploring mitigation strategies for FLW. There has been a growing body of literature on FLW quantification in the past years; however, significant challenges remain, such as data inconsistency and a narrow temporal, geographical, and food supply chain coverage. In this paper, we examined 202 publications which…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 50.67
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 129
Authors
9- LXLi XueCorresponding
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- GLGang Liu
University of Southern Denmark
- JPJulian Parfitt
- XLXiaojie Liu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
- EVErica van Herpen
Wageningen University & Research
Topics & keywords
- Per capita
- Food systems
- Business
- Food waste
- Geography
- Natural resource economics
- Food security
- Agricultural economics