Title:

A National Strategy to Reduce Food Waste at the Consumer Level

URL: http://www.agri-pulse.com/ext/resources/pdfs/A-National-Strategy-to-Reduce-Food-Waste-at-the-Consumer-Level-prepublication-copy.pdf
Summary:

This 2020 report summarizes a consensus study by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine of ways to reduce U.S. food waste at the consumer level. Approximately 30 percent of the edible food produced in the United States is wasted and a significant portion of this waste occurs at the consumer level.
Highlights:

A National Strategy to Reduce Food Waste at the Consumer Level identifies strategies for changing consumer behavior, considering interactions and feedbacks within the food system. It explores the reasons food is wasted in the United States, including the characteristics of the complex systems through which food is produced, marketed, and sold, as well as the many other interconnected influences on consumers' conscious and unconscious choices about purchasing, preparing, consuming, storing, and discarding food. This report presents a strategy for addressing the challenge of reducing food waste at the consumer level from a holistic, systems perspective.
Topics: Environment:, Climate change mitigation, Waste:, reducing of
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Resource Type: strategies and interventions
Publisher: U.S. National Academies of Science
Date Last Updated: 2021-07-23 12:38:49

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