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Reducing Food Loss And Waste While Improving The Public's Health
(Project Hope, 2015)
An estimated 30 percent of the global food supply is lost or wasted, as is about 40 percent of the
US food supply. There are valuable synergies between efforts to reduce food loss and waste and
those promoting public ...
Weight loss during freezing and storage of unpackaged foods
(Elsevier, 2001-02)
Dehydration of unwrapped foods occurs during freezing and frozen storage. Coupled heat and mass balances were proposed incorporating solidification of water and sublimation of ice. The mathematical model was solved using ...
Circular Economy for Food Loss Reduction and Water Footprint
(SpringerSG, 2022)
Food loss is a global problem with significant social, economic, and ecological impacts. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a third of the food produced globally is lost or wasted along the food ...
Food systems and COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean N° 9: How to reduce food loss and waste
(ECLACFAO, 2020-07-09)
The ongoing pandemic has threatened the food and nutritional security of millions of Latin Americans and Caribbean people. These interruptions in the links of the value chain of the agri-food system have resulted in greater ...
Food loss in a hungry world, a problem?
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Agronomía, Centro Editorial, 2014-08-25)
Mainly in developing countries, food loss and waste is a problem that is difficult to measure. Investigations have been conducted in industrialized countries; however, consistent evidence of how much is really being depleted ...
Food loss in a hungry world, a problem?
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Agronomía, Centro Editorial, 2014-08-25)
Mainly in developing countries, food loss and waste is a problem that is difficult to measure. Investigations have been conducted in industrialized countries; however, consistent evidence of how much is really being depleted ...
Agricultural expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado: Increased soil and nutrient losses and decreased agricultural productivity
(2019-01-01)
While food and nutrition security are issues that national and international organizations are tackling, one of the central problems often overlooked is the essential role of soils in providing nutritious food. Soils are ...
The role of reducing food waste for resilient food systems
Food waste undermines long-term resilience of the global food system by aggravating ecosystem damage. The
global community must therefore work to reduce the amount of food that gets wasted. However, we should be
mindful ...
Bionanocomposites for Natural Food Packing
(2013-03-12)
Food packaging is essential for preserving food during the period between production and ultimate consumption. Considering the current problems associated with food production, such as global warming, rising demand for ...