The Economics of Food Loss in the Produce Industry (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Minor, Travis; Mishra, Ashok K.; Thornsbury, Suzanne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Food loss is a serious issue in the United States. It affects all aspects of the supply chain, from farmers to consumers. The Economics of Food Loss in the Produce Industry is an essential text which focuses on the economics of food loss as they apply to on-farm produce production, and the losses that are experienced early.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429559167
• Artikelnr.: 58278961

Autorenporträt

Travis Minor is Cross-Commodity Analyst for Specialty Crops in the Crops Branch of the Market and Trade Economics Division of the United States Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. Suzanne Thornsbury is Chief of the Crops Branch in the Market and Trade Economics Division of the United States Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. Ashok K. Mishra is Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation Chair in Food Management, Morrison School of Agribusiness, W. P. Carey School of Business, at the Arizona State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I 1 Introduction to food loss in the produce industry 2 Loss and
waste: are we really measuring a problem? 3 Existing efforts in measuring
and modeling early value-chain food losses 4 Economic trade-offs in food
loss policies 5 Empirical modeling of food loss in the produce sector
Section II 6 USDA and EPA estimation methods for food loss and waste in the
United States 7 Food loss in Canada 8 Measuring food losses at the national
and subnational levels: FAO's methodology for monitoring Sustainable
Development Goals 9 Food loss on the farm: lessons learned from
conversations with produce growers Section III 10 Tomato tales: comparing
loss-reduction drivers and opportunities across U.S. fresh tomato supply
chains 11 Case study on processing tomatoes 12 Case study on food loss in
fresh potatoes 13 Strawberries: food loss and loss prevention opportunities
14 Understanding food loss in romaine lettuce 15 Peaches Section IV 16
Market price volatility and food loss at the farm level 17 The evolving
role of labor availability in production decisions and food loss 18 The
role of technology along the supply chain in mitigating food loss 19
Contracting and quality standards in fresh produce markets and how they
impact food loss 20 From gleaning to for-profits: efforts to mitigate food
loss and feed people 21 The role of policy in addressing food loss 22 Food
loss as a wicked problem