Technological Change and the Environmental Impacts of Food Production and Consumption: The Case of the UK Yogurt Industry

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Dewick ◽  
Chris Foster ◽  
Ken Green
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals In quest of reducing the environmental impacts of food production and consumption

2017 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 387-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serenella Sala ◽  
Assumpcio’ Anton ◽  
Sarah J. McLaren ◽  
Bruno Notarnicola ◽  
Erwan Saouter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Production And Consumption

scholarly journals The ontological politics of freshness: Qualities of food and sustainability governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2110598
Author(s):  
David M. Evans ◽  
Peter Jackson ◽  
Monica Truninger ◽  
João A. Baptista
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Quality Of Food ◽  
Sustainability Governance ◽  
Hybrid Forums ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Multiple Ontologies

Freshness is a key feature of contemporary food systems, however its industrial production as a quality of food carries adverse consequences. Accordingly, this paper approaches freshness as a matter of concern. Drawing on extensive fieldwork across sites of food production and consumption in the UK and Portugal, we identify four enactments of freshness. The analysis zooms in on the specific case of plastic food packaging and uses these enactments to consider a series of questions about realities and the relationships between them. Since packaging is an issue that readily overflows to encompass a broader suite of propositions about food, we argue that freshness is a suitable focus around which to assemble hybrid forums to debate future possibilities. Joining a body of recent work that brings relational-materialist sensibilities to bear on sustainability governance, we demonstrate that these ideas are not exhausted by a concern with the ways in which existing ontologies are brought together in policy. To conclude, we suggest that attention to the multiple ontologies of qualities complements and extends approaches that focus on objects by offering a conduit that brings understandings of markets into discussions of ontological politics.

scholarly journals Environmental impacts of chocolate production and consumption in the UK

2018 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 1012-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonios Konstantas ◽  
Harish K. Jeswani ◽  
Laurence Stamford ◽  
Adisa Azapagic
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Assessment of Glyphosate Impact on the Agrofood Ecosystem

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
Yaxin Sang ◽  
Juan-Carlos Mejuto ◽  
Jianbo Xiao ◽  
Jesus Simal-Gandara
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Regulatory Control ◽  
Biological Pest Control ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The Impact

Agro-industries should adopt effective strategies to use agrochemicals such as glyphosate herbicides cautiously in order to protect public health. This entails careful testing and risk assessment of available choices, and also educating farmers and users with mitigation strategies in ecosystem protection and sustainable development. The key to success in this endeavour is using scientific research on biological pest control, organic farming and regulatory control, etc., for new developments in food production and safety, and for environmental protection. Education and research is of paramount importance for food and nutrition security in the shadow of climate change, and their consequences in food production and consumption safety and sustainability. This review, therefore, diagnoses on the use of glyphosate and the associated development of glyphosate-resistant weeds. It also deals with the risk assessment on human health of glyphosate formulations through environment and dietary exposures based on the impact of glyphosate and its metabolite AMPA—(aminomethyl)phosphonic acid—on water and food. All this to setup further conclusions and recommendations on the regulated use of glyphosate and how to mitigate the adverse effects.

scholarly journals Introducing a Degrowth Approach to the Circular Economy Policies of Food Production, and Food Loss and Waste Management: Towards a Circular Bioeconomy

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hoehn ◽  
Jara Laso ◽  
María Margallo ◽  
Israel Ruiz-Salmón ◽  
Francisco José Amo-Setién ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Food Production ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Loss ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
New Policies

There is a growing debate surrounding the contradiction between an unremitting increase in the use of resources and the search for environmental sustainability. Therefore, the concept of sustainable degrowth is emerging aiming to introduce in our societies new social values and new policies, capable of satisfying human requirements whilst reducing environmental impacts and consumption of resources. In this framework, circular economy strategies for food production and food loss and waste management systems, following the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, are being developed based on a search for circularity, but without setting limits to the continual increase in environmental impacts and resource use. This work presents a methodology for determining the percentage of degrowth needed in any food supply chain, by analyzing four scenarios in a life cycle assessment approach over time between 2020 and 2040. Results for the Spanish case study suggested a degrowth need of 26.8% in 2015 and 58.9% in 2040 in order to achieve compliance with the Paris Agreement targets, highlighting the reduction of meat and fish and seafood consumption as the most useful path.

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