production, as freshwater is an increasingly scarce and overexploited resource in many
parts of the world. Therefore, the concept of water footprint (WF) has gained increasing
interest, in the same way that the generation of food loss and waste (FLW) in food production
and consumption has become a social and political concern. Along this line, the number of
studies on the WF of the food production sector is currently increasing all over the world …