This paper evaluates the impacts of food wastage in the consumption stage on water resources and the environment in China. The result indicates that in the year 2010, the wastage of major food in China was aroun
Food loss and waste (FLW) hampers global food security, human health and environmental sustainability. However, monitoring and benchmarking FLW reduction is often constrained by the lack of reliable and consistent data, especially for emerging economies.
An imbalance between production and consumption of food, inevitably leading to surplus, has been identified as a common cause of waste generation at retail level. Despite the known risks attributed to food waste, global wastage of edible food is a major challenge at all stages of the supply cha...
Additionally, natural calamities destroyed a substantial amount of crops and food products every year, so the government should take steps to save food wastage by formulating policies as well as providing crop insurance to farmers. In order to revolutionize the country's agricultural industry and ensu...
the FAO statistics on which the grid-cell yields rely may not reflect the actual amount of food available for consumption by people owing to the complexity of accurately monitoring agricultural production and accounting for informal cross-border trade, non-food uses of grain and on-farm wastage36...
(2020). COVID-19 virus outbreak lockdown: What impacts on household food wastage? Environment, Development and Sustainability, 22, 3939–3955. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-00740-y Article Google Scholar Kaur, M., & Nagpal, A. K. (2017). Evaluation of air pollution tolerance ...
There are new tech- nologies for the utilization of low quality logs which can significantly reduce the wood wastage as well as special- ized equipment which enables to maximize the wood recovery. However, in many enterprises, particularly in developing countries, these new production methods have...
根据第二段中Water plays a major role in food production,and as a result,food waste translates to a large amount of water wastage.(水在食物生产中起着重要作用,因此,食物浪费转化为大量的水浪费。)可知,浪费食物就是在浪费水是因为食物生产过程中需要大量的水。故选C项。(2)推理判断...
The COVID lockdown has affected food purchases and eating habits. In this regard, this short communication assesses the nutritional and environmental impacts of these changes during the COVID lockdown in Spain, by applying Life Cycle Assessment and an energy- and nutrient-corrected functional unit....
Social impacts such as population migration, impacts on health and schooling of children, hopelessness and sense of loss, conflicts in society for water, and malnutrition due to changed food preferences were also reported. The environmental impacts such as increases in average atmospheric temperature, ...