Urban Food Waste: A Framework to Analyse Policies and Initiatives
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Fondazione Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition, 43121 Parma, Italy
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Istituto Affari Internazionali, 00186 Roma, Italy
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Division on Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
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Resources 2020, 9(9), 99; https://doi.org/10.3390/resources9090099
Received: 30 June 2020
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Revised: 7 August 2020
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Accepted: 18 August 2020
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Published: 20 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Food Loss and Waste: The Challenge of a Sustainable Management through a Circular Economy Perspective)
Food waste policy analysis has traditionally concentrated on supranational or national policies and paid little attention to the role of cities in tackling this phenomenon. Nevertheless, cities have proved to be crucial actors in tackling food waste, launching effective policies and initiatives to address it. By looking at 40 cities across 16 European countries, this study aims to present a new framework for assessing urban food waste policies and initiatives. The framework proposed identifies and sheds light on the links between the different types of policies launched, the main areas of interventions addressed, as well as the different actors intervening in urban food waste management. Finally, it identifies direct and indirect links with the Sustainable Development Goals, showing the role that cities can play in achieving the targets of the UN 2030 Agenda.
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Keywords:
food waste; food policies; urban food policies; urban food waste; urban food governance; sustainable development; food security; urban food security
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Fattibene, D.; Recanati, F.; Dembska, K.; Antonelli, M. Urban Food Waste: A Framework to Analyse Policies and Initiatives. Resources 2020, 9, 99. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources9090099
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Fattibene D, Recanati F, Dembska K, Antonelli M. Urban Food Waste: A Framework to Analyse Policies and Initiatives. Resources. 2020; 9(9):99. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources9090099
Chicago/Turabian StyleFattibene, Daniele, Francesca Recanati, Katarzyna Dembska, and Marta Antonelli. 2020. "Urban Food Waste: A Framework to Analyse Policies and Initiatives" Resources 9, no. 9: 99. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources9090099
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