Routledge handbook of food waste / edited by Christian Reynolds, Tammara Soma, Charlotte Spring, Jordon Lazell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reynolds, Christian, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food waste.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 450 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This comprehensive Handbook represents a definitive state of the current art and science of food waste from multiple perspectives. The issue of food waste has emerged in recent years as a major global problem. Recent research has enabled greater understanding and measurement of loss and waste throughout food supply chains, shedding light on contributing factors and practical solutions. This book includes perspectives and disciplines ranging from agriculture, food science, industrial ecology, history, economics, consumer behaviour, geography, theology, planning, sociology and environmental policy amongst others. The Routledge Handbook of Food Waste addresses new and ongoing debates around systemic causes and solutions, including behaviour change, social innovation, new technologies, spirituality, redistribution, animal feed, and activism. The chapters describe and evaluate country case studies, waste management, treatment, prevention, and reduction approaches, and compares research methodologies for better understanding food wastage. This book is essential reading for the growing number of food waste scholars, practitioners and policy makers interested in researching, theorising, debating and solving the multifaceted phenomenon of food waste"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Food waste: an introduction to contemporary food waste studies

Food waste: our anthropocene legacy?

Global narratives of scale

A multi-dimensional concern

Growing public and policy attention

Addressing gaps in food waste studies: technology, innovation, and including diverse perspectives

Encountering food waste: the response of scholar-activism

Embodying waste/guilt: a gendered perspective

Seeking root causes, recasting received wisdom

The variegated and visceral politics of food waste activism

A more inclusive approach to food waste studies: alternative paradigms, alternative food waste conceptualisations, and alternative solutions

Sensing wasted food materialities: a wellspring for politics … and art?

Animal relations and beyond-humans

Reconnecting the distance: alternative food systems

Building new foundations of relationality

Joining the movement: a new wave of food waste studies and the international food loss and food waste studies group

Notes

References

PART I: Understanding modern food waste regimes: historical, economic, and spiritual dimensions

1. After market: capital, surplus, and the social afterlives of food waste

Introduction

Abject capital

The work of waste-making

Shadow economies

The recovery of the market

Conclusion

2. The perfect storm: a history of food waste

Contributors to food waste

Early environmental concerns: landfills to climate change

Measuring the scale and impacts of food and organic waste

Developing solutions for food waste

Feed people

The storm hits

A globalizing social movement: The media and organizational deluge

Note

References.

3. Food waste, religion, and spirituality: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim approaches

Judaism

Faith in practice around wastefulness

Christianity

Islam

Action

Acknowledgement

Bibliography

4. Interrogating waste: vastogenic regimes in the 21st century

The food waste paradox

Getting to know waste

Systemic practices of food/waste: the UK

The governmentality of waste in the UK

The sociotechnical waste dispositif

Creating vastogenic behaviours and appetites for waste

Conclusion: There is no 'food waste'

PART II: Food waste (and loss) along the food supply chain and institutions

5. Produce loss and waste in agricultural production

Agricultural losses often missing from discussions of food waste

Differentiating "food loss" and "food waste"

Growers aim to prevent a wide variety of losses

Losses in production are driven by constraints outside the growers' control

The amount of fresh produce lost in agricultural production is not yet well understood

Strategies that can reduce agricultural food loss may not incentivize growers

Quantification of losses in agriculture leads to new knowledge about food production

6. Food loss and waste in processing and distribution

The business case for reducing FLW

The importance of adopting a value chain approach to FLW

How to reduce FLW in processing and distribution

Conclusions

7. Food waste (and loss) at the retail level

Generation and composition of food waste in retail

Reasons and influencing factors for food waste in retail

Prevention measures

8. Household food waste

Introduction.

An overview of household food waste generation and management

Assessing diverse drivers of household food waste

The household in context: food waste as a systemic phenomenon

Interventions

9. Food waste in the service sector: key concepts, measurement methods and best practices

The current situation: food waste amount, origin, composition and consequences

FW measurement methods and tools

Best practices for reducing food waste

Surplus food utilisation

PART III: Overview of regional food waste: research, policy, and legal approaches

10. Food waste in the UK and EU: a policy and practice perspective

Wealthy, yet poverty and food insecurity remain

Key FLW stakeholders

WRAP

EU FUSIONS

UN FAO

Food loss and waste

Routes to reducing food waste

Retail redistribution

Legislation/regulation

Voluntary actions by business

Grassroots movements

Brexit

11. Food loss and waste measurement methods and estimates for the United States

Key food loss and waste studies and estimates in the United States

Incentives to reduce/prevent, recover, or recycle

Looking ahead

12. Apprehending food waste in Asia: policies, practices and promising trends

Literature review

Case studies in food waste management

Cambodia (Phnom Penh)

India (Bengaluru)

Indonesia

Japan (Kyoto City and Oki Town)

The Philippines

Discussion and conclusion: looking ahead toward promising food waste strategies in Asia

13. Food waste within South Africa and Saudi Arabia

Food waste within South Africa

Food waste within Saudi Arabia

14. Food waste in Australia and New Zealand.

Introduction

Food waste in Australia

Food waste in New Zealand

Possible actions and interventions for Australia and New Zealand

15. Estimating total and per capita food waste in Brazilian households: a scenario analysis

Contextualizing food waste policy in Brazil

The construction and analysis of wasteful scenarios in Brazilian households

The physical and monetary dimensions of FLW in Brazilian households

Final considerations

PART IV: Methodologies in food waste studies

16. Quantifying food waste: food waste audits, surveys, and new technologies

Why quantify?

Conceptualizing food waste

Quantitative food waste measures

Data collection methods

17. Moving beyond the 'what' and 'how much' to the 'why': researching food waste at the consumer level

Understanding the why: an introduction to theories of consumer behaviour

A practice-based approach to research food waste

Application of theories of practice in consumer food waste research

Ethnography: a toolkit of observation methodologies

Diaries as a research method

Suggested further reading

18. Applying behaviour change methods to food waste

Changing food waste preventing behaviours

Motivation abilities and opportunities framework

Motivation

Abilities

Opportunities

Interactions

Interventions based on the MOA framework

Transtheoretical model (TTM)

Stages of change, household food management behaviours and food waste

Decisional balance

Self-efficacy

Processes of change, household food management behaviours and food waste

Using the TTM processes of change to develop campaign messages

19. All my relations: applying social innovation and Indigenous methodology to challenge the paradigm of food waste

What is social innovation and why apply this to food waste?

Case study: Food Systems Lab

Lab methodology: Preliminary research

Workshop 1: Seeing the System

Workshop 2: Designing Solutions

Workshop 3: Prototyping Interventions

Adrianne Lickers Xavier vignette: food as relations

20. Modelling approaches to food waste: discrete event simulation

machine learning

Bayesian networks

agent-based modelling

and mass balance estimation

Discrete event simulation

Milk model and key findings

Machine learning and Bayesian networks

The use of systems models to identify food waste drivers: Grainger et al. (2018a)

Model selection and averaging in the assessment of the drivers of household food waste to reduce the probability of false positives: Grainger et al. (2018b)

Agent-based modelling

An ABM of retail food waste

Outputs and applications

An ABM of consumer food waste

Applications and preliminary results

Mass (energy) balance estimation

Quantifying food waste as a balance between availability, metabolism and calories consumed

Acknowledgements

PART V: Solutions to food waste?

21. Surplus food redistribution

A typology of surplus food redistribution

Conceptualising surplus food redistribution

Policy actions and surplus food redistribution

Concluding discussion

22. Keeping unavoidable food waste in the food chain as animal feed

Livestock farming and food waste: two challenges to tackle in creating a sustainable food system

Animal feed in the food use hierarchy.

The environmental impact of pig and chicken farming.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-87069-8

0-429-46279-4

0-429-87070-1

9780429462795

OCLC:

1120784043