Food losses and food waste along the food value chain are a central problem not only for moral and ethical reasons, but also from an environmental perspective. The production and processing of food entail serious environmental impacts which could be reduced significantly by lowering food loss rates. Reducing food losses and food waste may as well contribute significantly to climate and to resource protection as the study underlines.
Series
Texte | 86/2016
Number of pages
131
Year of publication
Author(s)
Dirk Jepsen, Dr. Annette Vollmer, Dr. Ulrike Eberle, Jacob Fels, Prof. Dr. Thomas Schomerus
Language
English
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Project No. (FKZ)
3712 32 311
Publisher
Umweltbundesamt
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2511 KB
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