Household Food Metabolism: Losses, Waste and Environmental Pressures of Food Consumption at the Regional Level in Spain.

ABSTRACT: Dealing with an increasing population is challenging the global food system not only in productive terms, but also through the associated environmental pressures. A growing diagnostic effort is being made by global and national agencies. Innovative approaches are needed to support effective policy efforts. This study aims to illustrate the potentialities of the household metabolism approach in the diagnosis of the environmental pressures derived from household food consumption, using the Spanish regions and the effects of the 2008 crisis as case studies. The direct information concerning food consumption in physical terms provided by the Spanish household budget survey is used to estimate some relevant environmental pressures (food losses and waste along the food chain, as well as water an

SUBMITTER: Di Donato M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8224788 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature