New Food Waste Horizons
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Waste and Recycling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 24958
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food sustainability; food safety and quality; life cycle assessment of food; environmental footprints in the food supply chain; sustainable diets; sustainable food production; food modeling
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Interests: food engineering; nonthermal and advanced thermal processing technologies; Industry 4.0; sustainability; food processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
At present, both academia and food industry emphasize the necessity to combat food waste and losses throughout the food supply chain. To perform such a task, scientific manuscripts, various stakeholders, and good environmental practices show a variety of different approaches. Top-down models downscale the problem from a policy-making point of view, emphasizing the need to reduce food waste, food insecurity, and hunger through different food systems. Vice versa, bottom-up approaches upscale food waste problems through the development of different waste treatment technologies and finding ways to develop value-added products focused on specific food actors in the food supply chain and different food sectors. There is also aim to map potential improvements in food production chains, to reduce CO2 emissions. Therefore, to be in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, a good approach is to provide an overview of different case studies.
The aims and the scope of this Special Issue are to attract research papers related to various scenarios in decreasing food waste throughout the food supply chain perspective, both top-down and bottom-up and to especially welcome case studies and review articles that describe the current state of the art dealing with food waste.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Food waste mitigation scenarios;
- Food waste case studies;
- New approaches in processing food waste;
- Models for quantifying food waste value chain;
- Food waste and losses and UN SDGs;
- Food waste–food security–food hunger nexus;
- Sustainable diets and food waste;
- Food waste and sustainable production;
Food and environmental law in decreasing food waste.
Prof. Dr. Ilija Djekic
Prof. Dr. Anet Režek Jambrak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food waste mitigation
- UN SDGs
- 2030 Agenda
- life cycle assessment
- food waste modeling
- food waste scenario
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