Food waste management during the COVID-19 outbreak: a holistic climate, economic and nutritional approach.

ABSTRACT: Improving the food supply chain efficiency has been identified as an essential means to enhance food security, while reducing pressure on natural resources. Adequate food loss and waste (FLW) management has been proposed as an approach to meet these objectives. The main hypothesis of this study is to consider that the "strong fluctuations and short-term changes" on eating habits may have major consequences on potential FLW generation and management, as well as on GHG emissions, all taking into account the nutritional and the economic cost. Due to the exceptional lockdown measures imposed by the Spanish government, as a consequence of the emerging coronavirus disease, COVID-19, food production and consumption systems have undergone significant changes, which must be properly studied in orde

SUBMITTER: Aldaco R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7319639 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature