Causes and mitigation strategies of food loss and waste: a systematic literature review and framework development

VSM Magalhães, LMDF Ferreira, C Silva - Sustainable Production and …, 2021 - Elsevier
One third of all food produced for human consumption ends up as food loss and waste
(FLW) each year along the food supply chain (FSC). To prevent FLW, it is paramount to …

[HTML][HTML] Reducing food waste at retail stores—an explorative study

L Riesenegger, A Hübner - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Grocery retailers are in a dilemma. They often prioritize availability over other aspects due to
strong competition in this sector and the imperative of realizing sales. The target for many …

Integrating decision support tools into businesses for sustainable development: A paradoxical approach to address the food waste challenge

R Somlai - Business Strategy and the Environment, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The food industry is increasingly using decision support tools to address the food loss and
waste challenge. Extant food loss and waste tools predominantly focus on environmental …

Drivers and hinderers of (un) sustainable service: a systems view

K Koskela-Huotari, K Svärd… - Journal of Service …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Making service provisioning significantly more sustainable is crucial if humankind wants to
make a serious effort to operate within the boundaries of what the planet can support. The …

Causes and prevention practices of food waste in fruit and vegetable supply chains: How is Brazil dealing with these issues?

CC de Moraes, FH de Oliveira Costa, AL da Silva… - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aims to identify the main causes of food waste (especially fruit and vegetables)
and their relationship with prevention practices at supermarket and supplier levels. To do so …

Prioritizing causes and drivers of retail food waste through a fuzzy Dombi-Bonferroni operators-based best–worst approach: an emerging economy perspective

İ Yaran Ögel, A Aygün Özgöz, F Ecer - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
The food waste hierarchy offers that prevention of the waste is the best solution to deal with
this complex issue. Herein, to take a preventive action against food waste, this paper …

[HTML][HTML] Avoidance of food waste from a grocery retail store owner's perspective

IK Horoś, T Ruppenthal - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The aim of this paper is to examine the causes of food waste and potential prevention
strategies from a grocery retail store owner's perspective. We therefore conducted a case …

[HTML][HTML] Product specifications and business practices as food loss drivers–A case study of a retailer's upstream fruit and vegetable supply chains

R Herzberg, A Trebbin, F Schneider - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
The issue of food loss and waste is vital for minimising resource consumption and CO 2
emissions. In particular, reducing fruit and vegetable loss and waste would contribute to …

[HTML][HTML] Food waste, circular economy, and policy with oligopolistic retailers

L Correani, P Morganti, C Silvestri… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
The food chain is intrinsically linked to agriculture and enables a transition towards a
Circular Economy (CE) system and a resource efficient future. Accordingly, the development …

[HTML][HTML] Perceptions of food waste reduction in Sri Lanka's commercial capital, Colombo

M Reitemeier, M Aheeyar, P Drechsel - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
In 2019, Sri Lanka introduced two policies that referred to food waste and the need to reduce
it. To understand key stakeholders' readiness in this context, this study analyzed the food …