Routledge Handbook of Food Waste

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Food waste: an introduction to contemporary food waste studies
	Food waste: our anthropocene legacy?
	Global narratives of scale
	A multi-dimensional concern
	Growing public and policy attention
	Addressing gaps in food waste studies: technology, innovation, and including diverse perspectives
	Encountering food waste: the response of scholar-activism
	Embodying waste/guilt: a
gendered perspective
	Seeking root causes, recasting received wisdom
	The variegated and visceral politics of food waste activism
	A more inclusive approach to food waste studies: alternative
paradigms, alternative food waste conceptualisations, and alternative
solutions
	Sensing wasted food materialities: a wellspring for politics … and art?
	Animal relations and beyond-humans
	Reconnecting the distance: alternative food systems
	Building new foundations of relationality
	Joining the movement: a new wave of food waste studies and the
international food loss and food waste studies group
	Notes
	References
PART I: Understanding modern food waste regimes: historical, economic, and spiritual dimensions
	1. After market: capital, surplus, and the social afterlives of food waste
		Introduction
		Abject capital
		The work of waste-making
		Shadow economies
		The recovery of the market
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	2. The perfect storm: a history of food waste
		Contributors to food waste
		Early environmental concerns: landfills to climate change
		Measuring the scale and impacts of food and organic waste
		Developing solutions for food waste
		Feed people
		The storm hits
		A
globalizing social movement: The media and organizational deluge
		Note
		References
	3. Food waste, religion, and spirituality: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim approaches
		Introduction
		Judaism
		Faith in practice around wastefulness
		Christianity
		Islam
		Action
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
		Bibliography
	4. Interrogating waste: vastogenic regimes in the 21st century
		Introduction
		The food waste paradox
		Getting to know waste
		Systemic practices of food/waste: the UK
		The governmentality of waste in the UK
		The sociotechnical waste dispositif
		Creating vastogenic behaviours and appetites for waste
		Conclusion: There is no ‘food waste’
		Notes
		References
PART II: Food waste (and loss) along the food supply chain and institutions
	5. Produce loss and waste in agricultural production
		Agricultural losses often missing from discussions of food waste
		Differentiating “food loss” and “food waste”
		Growers aim to prevent a
wide variety of losses
		Losses in production are driven by constraints outside the growers’ control
		The amount of fresh produce lost in agricultural production is not yet well understood
		Strategies that can reduce agricultural food loss may not incentivize growers
		Quantification of losses in agriculture leads to new knowledge about food production
		References
	6. Food loss and waste in processing and distribution
		Introduction
		The business case for reducing FLW
		The importance of adopting a
value chain approach to FLW
		How to reduce FLW in processing and distribution
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	7. Food waste (and loss) at the retail level
		Introduction
		Generation and composition of food waste in retail
		Reasons and influencing factors for food waste in retail
		Prevention measures
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgement
		References
	8. Household food waste
		Introduction
		An overview of household food waste generation and management
		Assessing diverse drivers of household food waste
		The household in context: food waste as a
systemic phenomenon
		Interventions
		Note
		Bibliography
	9. Food waste in the service sector: key concepts, measurement methods and best practices
		Introduction
		The current situation: food waste amount, origin, composition and consequences
		FW measurement methods and tools
		Best practices for reducing food waste
		Surplus food utilisation
		References
PART III: Overview of regional food waste: research, policy, and legal approaches
	10. Food waste in the UK and EU: a policy and practice perspective
		Introduction
		Wealthy, yet poverty and food insecurity remain
		Key FLW stakeholders
		WRAP
		EU FUSIONS
		UN FAO
		Food loss and waste
		Routes to reducing food waste
		Retail redistribution
		Legislation/regulation
		Voluntary actions by business
		Grassroots movements
		Brexit
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	11. Food loss and waste measurement methods and estimates for the United States
		Introduction
		Key food loss and waste studies and estimates in the United States
		Incentives to reduce/prevent, recover, or recycle
		Looking ahead
		Note
		References
	12. Apprehending food waste in Asia: policies, practices and promising trends
		Introduction
		Literature review
		Case studies in food waste management
		Cambodia (Phnom Penh)
		India (Bengaluru)
		Indonesia
		Japan (Kyoto City and Oki Town)
		The Philippines
		Discussion and conclusion: looking ahead toward promising food waste strategies in Asia
		Notes
		References
	13. Food waste within South Africa and Saudi Arabia
		Introduction
		Food waste within South Africa
		Food waste within Saudi Arabia
		Note
		References
	14. Food waste in Australia and New Zealand
		Introduction
		Food waste in Australia
		Food waste in New Zealand
		Possible actions and interventions for Australia and New Zealand
		References
	15. Estimating total and per capita food waste in Brazilian households: a scenario analysis
		Introduction
		Contextualizing food waste policy in Brazil
		The construction and analysis of wasteful scenarios in Brazilian households
		The physical and monetary dimensions of FLW in Brazilian households
		Final considerations
		Notes
		References
PART IV: Methodologies in food waste studies
	16. Quantifying food waste: food waste audits, surveys, and new technologies
		Introduction
		Why quantify?
		Conceptualizing food waste
		Quantitative food waste measures
		Data collection methods
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	17. Moving beyond the ‘what’ and ‘how much’ to the ‘why’: researching food waste at the consumer level
		Introduction
		Understanding the why: an introduction to theories of consumer behaviour
		A practice-based approach to research food waste
		Application of theories of practice in consumer food waste research
		Ethnography: a
toolkit of observation methodologies
		Diaries as a
research method
		Suggested further reading
		References
	18. Applying behaviour change methods to food waste
		Changing food waste preventing behaviours
		Motivation abilities and opportunities framework
		Motivation
		Abilities
		Opportunities
		Interactions
		Interventions based on the MOA framework
		Transtheoretical model (TTM)
		Stages of change, household food management behaviours and food waste
		Decisional balance
		Self-efficacy
		Processes of change, household food management behaviours and food waste
		Using the TTM processes of change to develop campaign messages
		Conclusion
		References
	19. All my relations: applying social innovation and Indigenous methodology to challenge the paradigm of food waste
		Introduction
		What is social innovation and why apply this to food waste?
		Case study: Food Systems Lab
		Lab methodology: Preliminary research
		Workshop 1: Seeing the System
		Workshop 2: Designing Solutions
		Workshop 3: Prototyping Interventions
		Adrianne Lickers Xavier vignette: food as relations
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	20.
Modelling approaches to food waste: discrete event simulation; machine learning; Bayesian networks; agent-based modelling; and mass balance estimation
		Introduction
		Discrete event simulation
		Milk model and key findings
		Machine learning and Bayesian networks
		The use of systems models to identify food waste drivers: Grainger
et al. (2018a)
		Model selection and averaging in the assessment of the drivers of
household food waste to reduce the probability of false positives:
Grainger et al. (2018b)
		Agent-based modelling
		An ABM of retail food waste
		Outputs and applications
		An ABM of consumer food waste
		Applications and preliminary results
		Mass (energy) balance estimation
		Quantifying food waste as a balance between availability, metabolism
and calories consumed
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Acknowledgements
		References
PART V: Solutions to food waste?
	21. Surplus food redistribution
		Introduction
		A
typology of surplus food redistribution
		Conceptualising surplus food redistribution
		Policy actions and surplus food redistribution
		Concluding discussion
		References
	22. Keeping unavoidable food waste in the food chain as animal feed
		Introduction
		Livestock farming and food waste: two challenges to tackle in
creating a sustainable food system
		Animal feed in the food use hierarchy
		The environmental impact of pig and chicken farming
		The EU ban
		The backyard pig globally and the unregulated feeding of food waste
		Modern pig farming and use of food waste
		Using food waste as feed safely
		Treatment and feeding models
		Economic and welfare benefits
		The way forward
		References
	23. From dumpster dives to disco vibes: the shifting shape of food waste activism
		Food not bombs: free meals against capitalism
		What’s contentious about free food?
		Freegans: diving in, opting out
		From anti-capitalism to anti-waste
		Disco Soupe: “Yes, we cut”
		Conclusion: a
new world out of/without waste
		Notes
		References
	24. The effects of labelling, packaging and the eating environment on consumer-generated food waste
		Labelling
		Packaging
		The eating environment
		Future research
		References
	25. Upcycling and valorisation of food waste
		Introduction
		Valorisation of fractions from agri-residue feed-stocks for protein and fibre
		Valorisation of fractions from agri-residue feed-stocks for micro nutrients
		Valorisation of fractions from agri-residue feed-stocks for waxes
		Business case study: turning food by-products into functionalised food ingredients
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	26. Exploring the potential of digital food waste prevention in
the restaurant industry
		Introduction
		Current literature
		Materials and methods
		Results and discussion
		Conclusions
		References
	27. Food waste management, treatment and disposal options: a review and future considerations
		Introduction
		Food waste composition
		Recycling via biological treatment
		Recovery via thermal treatment
		Environmental impacts comparison of recovery and recycling
methods now and in a decarbonising economy
		Bibliography
PART VI: Debates in food waste studies and looking ahead
	28. Conduits that bite back: challenging the ‘win-win’ solutions of food recalls and redistribution
		Introduction
		Conceptualising food’s reverse flows
		Conceptualising divestment
		Methods
		The afterlife of recalled food
		Securing edibility in the afterlife
		Discussion and conclusion
		Notes
		References
	29. Are you buying food waste?: The roles technologies can play in (re)designing the food retail experience
		The epidemic of food waste
		The food and technology landscape in the food retail sector
		(Re)Designing consumer engagement with a
digitally transformed food retail sector
		Conclusion
		References
	30. A brief overview of current food waste research: the what, why, how and future directions
		Introduction
		First stream: the what?
		Second stream: the why?
		Third stream: the how?
		The future of food waste research
		Conclusion
		References
	31. Challenging hegemonic conceptions of food waste: critical reflections from a food waste activist
		‘Food loss’ vs. ‘food waste’: eclipsing power relations
		Food waste and the urgency of climate crisis
		A
world of abundance and inequality
		Beyond reformism: transformist strategies for the food waste movement
		Notes
		References
Index