Recommended Articles

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Please find links to some useful articles regarding food loss and waste below (in no particular order!):

Gustavsson et al., (2011) Global Food Losses and Waste: Extent, Causes and Prevention.

FAO (2013). Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources.

FAO (2013). Food Wastage Footprint (concise factsheet)

FAO (2015) Food Wastage Footprint & Climate Change

Parfitt et al. (2010) Food waste within food supply chains: quantification and potential for change to 2050.

Escaler and Teng (2011) Mind the Gap

Hodges et al. (2011) Postharvest losses and waste in developed and less developed countries: opportunities to improve resource use.

Kummu et al. (2012) Lost food, wasted resources: Global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use

World Bank (2009) MISSING FOOD: The Case of Postharvest Grain Losses in Sub-Saharan Africa