scholarly journals Food Losses and Wastage along the Wheat Value Chain in Egypt and Their Implications on Food and Energy Security, Natural Resources, and the Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10011
Author(s):  
Yigezu A. Yigezu ◽  
Moustafa A. Moustafa ◽  
Mohamed M. Mohiy ◽  
Shaimaa E. Ibrahim ◽  
Wael M. Ghanem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
Domestic Production ◽  
Standard Measurement ◽  
Food Loss ◽  
Food Losses ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Equivalent

Pushing yield frontiers of cereals and legumes is becoming increasingly difficult, especially in drylands. This paper argues and provides empirical evidence that food loss and wastage constitute a sizeable proportion of the total wheat supply in Egypt. By following the life cycle of food and using standard measurement protocols, we estimated the levels of food loss and wastage along the wheat value chain in Egypt and their socioeconomic, biophysical, and environmental implications. About 4.4 million tons (20.62% of total wheat supply from domestic production and imports in 2017/2018) is estimated to be lost or wasted in Egypt which is also associated with the wastage of about 4.79 billion m3 of water, and 74.72 million GJ of energy. This implies that if Egypt manages to eliminate, or considerably reduce, wheat-related losses and wastage, it will save enough food to feed 21 million more people from domestic production and hence reduce wheat imports by 37%, save 1.1 billion USD of much-needed foreign exchange, and reduce emissions of at least 260.84 million kg carbon dioxide-equivalent and 8.5 million kg of methane. Therefore, investment in reducing food loss and wastage can be an effective strategy to complement ongoing efforts to enhance food security through productivity enhancement in Egypt.

scholarly journals Fields of Action for Designing Measures to Avoid Food Losses in Logistics Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 6093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Kleineidam
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Food Loss ◽  
Network Cooperation ◽  
Logistics Networks ◽  
Structured Analysis ◽  
Food Losses ◽  
A Company ◽  
Different Levels

The literature contains many analyses of measures against food loss. However, there exists no structured analysis of the objective of these measures. This study employs a systematic literature analysis and open expert interviews, combining the perspectives of science and practice. For each analyzed case, we identified the objectives behind the implemented measures. Using qualitative clustering, we categorized the located objectives into fields of action. The identified 13 fields of action provide an overview of the objectives of food loss prevention measures. The results indicate that different levels of importance can be assigned to these fields of action. In particular, the results show the relevance of increased network cooperation and transparency within a company and along the entire value chain. Furthermore, the study indicates that the creation of transparency provides the greatest overall added value in terms of reducing food losses.

scholarly journals Quantity and quality food losses across the value Chain: A Comparative analysis

Food Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 101958
Author(s):  
Luciana Delgado ◽  
Monica Schuster ◽  
Maximo Torero
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Quality Food ◽  
Food Losses

scholarly journals A Quantitative and Qualitative Study of Food Loss in Glasshouse-Grown Tomatoes

Horticulturae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Margaret Thorsen ◽  
Miranda Mirosa ◽  
Sheila Skeaff
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Food Loss ◽  
Greenhouse Tomato ◽  
Total Food ◽  
Food Losses ◽  
Key Industry

Reducing food loss and waste (FLW) is one strategy to limit the environmental impact of the food supply chain. Australian data suggest that primary production accounts for 31% of national FLW, but there are no comparable data in New Zealand. This study aimed to measure food loss and explore food loss drivers for one of New Zealand’s largest tomato growers by weighing and visually assessing tomato losses at the glasshouse, packhouse and sales warehouse. Qualitative interviews were also held with the grower (n = 3), employees (n = 10), and key industry stakeholders (n = 8). Total food loss for this greenhouse tomato grower was 16.9% of marketed yield, consisting of 13.9% unharvested tomatoes, 2.8% rejected at the glasshouse and 0.3% rejected at the packhouse. The grower’s tomato loss predominantly resulted from commercial factors such as market price, competitor activity and supply and demand. Similar issues were recognized throughout the New Zealand horticulture sector. Commercial factors, in particular, are challenging to address, and collaboration throughout the supply chain will be required to help growers reduce food losses.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and Global Supply Chain Configuration: Economic and Emissions Impacts of Australia-China Trade Disruptions

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xunpeng Shi ◽  
Tsun Se Cheong ◽  
Michael Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Equilibrium Analysis ◽  
Output Analysis ◽  
Domestic Production ◽  
China Trade ◽  
Gross Domestic Production ◽  
Trade Embargo ◽  
Production Losses

Economic shocks from COVID-19, coupled with ongoing US-China tensions, have raised debates around supply chain (or global value chain) organisation, with China at the centre of the storm. However, quantitative studies that consider the global and economy-wide impacts of rerouting supply chains are limited. This study examines the economic and emissions impacts of reorganising supply chains, using Australia-China trade as an example. It augments the Hypothetical Extraction Method by replacing traditional Input-Output analysis with a Computable General Equilibrium analysis. The estimation results demonstrate that in both exports and imports, a trade embargo between Australia and China – despite being compensated for by alternative supply chains—will cause gross domestic production losses and emissions increases for both countries and the world overall. Moreover, even though all other economies gain from the markets left by China, many of them incur overall gross domestic production losses and emission increases. The finding that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and India may also suffer from an Australia-China trade embargo, despite a gain in trade volume, suggests that no country should add fuel to the fire. The results suggest that countries need to defend a rules-based trading regime and jointly address supply chain challenges.

scholarly journals The opportunity cost of animal based diets exceeds all food losses

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (15) ◽  
pp. 3804-3809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alon Shepon ◽  
Gidon Eshel ◽  
Elad Noor ◽  
Ron Milo
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Food Loss ◽  
Food Items ◽  
The Us ◽  
Food Losses ◽  
Dietary Shifts ◽  
Expected Benefits

Food loss is widely recognized as undermining food security and environmental sustainability. However, consumption of resource-intensive food items instead of more efficient, equally nutritious alternatives can also be considered as an effective food loss. Here we define and quantify these opportunity food losses as the food loss associated with consuming resource-intensive animal-based items instead of plant-based alternatives which are nutritionally comparable, e.g., in terms of protein content. We consider replacements that minimize cropland use for each of the main US animal-based food categories. We find that although the characteristic conventional retail-to-consumer food losses are ≈30% for plant and animal products, the opportunity food losses of beef, pork, dairy, poultry, and eggs are 96%, 90%, 75%, 50%, and 40%, respectively. This arises because plant-based replacement diets can produce 20-fold and twofold more nutritionally similar food per cropland than beef and eggs, the most and least resource-intensive animal categories, respectively. Although conventional and opportunity food losses are both targets for improvement, the high opportunity food losses highlight the large potential savings beyond conventionally defined food losses. Concurrently replacing all animal-based items in the US diet with plant-based alternatives will add enough food to feed, in full, 350 million additional people, well above the expected benefits of eliminating all supply chain food waste. These results highlight the importance of dietary shifts to improving food availability and security.

Corporate climate policy will survive oil downturn

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Related Cost ◽  
Ghg Reduction ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Equivalent

Significance According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), averting a 2 degree increase in global temperature would require US businesses to reduce emissions by 1.2 Gigatonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2-e) from 2010 levels, or 3% every year. Private sector techniques developed in the United States can spread elsewhere, including India, the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG). Impacts Some GHG reduction projects justified by transportation-related cost savings may become less viable as oil prices continue to fall. This impact is expected to be minor, resulting in slight reprioritisation of projects. Clean energy economics continue to trend towards grid parity with conventional fossil fuel.

scholarly journals Risk Management of Dairy Product Losses as a Tool to Improve the Environment and Food Rescue

Foods ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilska ◽  
Kołożyn-Krajewska
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Dairy Product ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Food Loss ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Average Annual Production ◽  
Food Losses ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Missed Opportunity

“Food loss”, defined as food produced for human consumption, which for various reasons leaves the supply chain, can be assigned to a group of new risks. Irrational use of food constitutes a risk to the environment. Moreover, food losses represent a missed opportunity to improve global food security. The aim of this study was to develop a risk management model for dairy product losses using the example of ripening cheese. The necessary data to develop the model were derived from a survey that was conducted in five dairies located in Poland. Total losses for nine products amounted to 1.1% of the average annual production, which accounted for more than 5635 t per annum. The studies that were conducted allowed the identification of three management methods of food loss in dairies: reprocessing, hand over for feed, and disposal. The level of risk was defined as “high” with two suggested courses of action: prevention and tolerance. Risks must be prevented by eliminating any errors that may result in a product of inadequate quality. Another solution is to redistribute or sell products at a reduced price, which despite their reduced quality, are nevertheless suitable for consumption. To some extent, this risk must be tolerated.

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