AREC173 Lecture 18: Arec 173 - lecture 18

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Course: AREC173
• Professor: Brent Swallow

Document Summary

Food waste and local food - guest lecture yichuan wang: !1: 1. prevention, through minimization of food surplus and avoidable food waste. , 2. Distribution of food surplus to groups affected by food poverty. Global food waste challenge: food security as an increasing problem prompts questions about food waste, 2. 1 global food supply chain: food losses and waste, figure 1: activities that cause losses and waste. Food and agriculture organization (fao): wholesome edible material intended for human consumption, arising at any point in the fsc that is instead discarded, lost, degraded or consumed by pests. : 2. Stuart (2009) adds: it should also include edible material that is intentionally fed to animals or is a by- product of food processing diverted away from the human food chain. [authors use this de nition]: 3. Smil (2004) adds: over-nutrition, the gap between the energy value of consumed food per capita and the energy value of food needed per capita.