TY - CHAP
T1 - Food Loss Reduction and Carbon Footprint Practices Worldwide : A Benchmarking Approach of Circular Economy
AU - Esquerre-Botton, Sharon
AU - Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
AU - Leclercq-Machado, Luigi
AU - de las Mercedes Anderson-Seminario, Maria
AU - Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2022/4/3
Y1 - 2022/4/3
N2 - Unsustainable food supply chains are negatively affecting the environment. As a result, this topic has been debated worldwide, and several actors came to the same conclusions: intervention and actions are a must. Nonetheless, this approach was not standardized, and countries and companies are implementing circular economies differently. This chapter aims to outline the current circular economy approach taken internationally and discuss the barriers of this last. A qualitative analysis was conducted by collecting several case studies and understanding the identified practices and challenges. In the findings, the authors discovered that countries’ policies remain weak globally, though the demand is increasing. Drawbacks and limitations such as economic resources, technological innovation, and incentives are evidenced.
AB - Unsustainable food supply chains are negatively affecting the environment. As a result, this topic has been debated worldwide, and several actors came to the same conclusions: intervention and actions are a must. Nonetheless, this approach was not standardized, and countries and companies are implementing circular economies differently. This chapter aims to outline the current circular economy approach taken internationally and discuss the barriers of this last. A qualitative analysis was conducted by collecting several case studies and understanding the identified practices and challenges. In the findings, the authors discovered that countries’ policies remain weak globally, though the demand is increasing. Drawbacks and limitations such as economic resources, technological innovation, and incentives are evidenced.
KW - Carbon footprint
KW - Circular economy
KW - Food waste
KW - Policies
KW - Sustainable development
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/c0be9cab-e60c-385a-9279-3089c3b61547/
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-19-0549-0_8
DO - 10.1007/978-981-19-0549-0_8
M3 - Capítulo
AN - SCOPUS:85127853311
SN - 978-981-19-0548-3
T3 - Environmental Footprints and Eco-Design of Products and Processes
SP - 161
EP - 179
BT - Circular Economy : Impact on Carbon and Water Footprint
PB - Springer
ER -