Food systems exert major pressures on the environment. This paper reviews what is known and not about environmental impacts along food supply chains, looking at contribution of different stages chain, impact products, heterogeneity among producers, role international trade. review shows that most in chains occur through land use change or stage agricultural production. Livestock (especially rum...

Food produced but not used for human consumption is a waste of natural resources. In order to prevent and reduce food waste, the main causes have to be identified systematically along the food supply chain (FSC). The aim of this study is (1) to shed light on the causes and effects of food waste through the analysis of 44 qualitative expert interviews examining the processes and intermediaries a...

Dr Silvia Estrada-Flores is Principal Consultant of Food Chain Intelligence, a consultancy business that provides advice in the practical aspects of the supply chain of perishable foods, from gate to plate; technical intelligence on the state of food logistics and food value chains; and operating procedures and plans to achieve an integrated supply chain. Silvia has worked extensively as a cons...

This paper addresses how food systems and transboundary food supply chains are mediated and shaped by (cross-) cultural and geopolitical borders that function as selective filters. We focus on the ways in which the political boundary in a formerly cohesive foodshed generates “edge effects” that affect (1) food safety, and (2) food waste, particularly in desert communities adjacent to the U.S.–M...

The present studies examined if materialists have an elevated concern about food availability, presumably stemming from a general survival security motivation. Study 1 found that materialists set a greater life goal of food security, and reported more food insecurity during their childhood. Materialists reported less present-day food insecurity. Study 2 revealed that materialists stored/hoarded...

Throughout the developed world, food is treated as a disposable commodity. Between a third and half of all food produced for human consumption globally is estimated to be wasted. However, attempts to quantify the actual magnitude of food wasted globally are constrained by limited data, particularly from developing countries. This article attempts to quantify total food waste generation (includi...

This paper outlines brietly the growth of India’s agriculture and, more recently, the role of food-production programmes in that growth, observing the impact of food-production and also of food-supply programmes on the society at large and, especially, on the diets of poorer families. Inevitably, this first part of the paper is largely descriptive; however, in the last one-third of the paper, t...