Title
Food Loss Reduction and Carbon Footprint Practices Worldwide: A Benchmarking Approach of Circular Economy
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Esquerre-Botton S.
Leclercq-Machado L.
de las Mercedes Anderson-Seminario M.
Escuela Nacional de Marina Mercante “Almirante Miguel Grau”
Publisher(s)
Springer
Abstract
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.
Start page
161
End page
179
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Relaciones Industriales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85127853311
Source
Environmental Footprints and Eco-Design of Products and Processes
ISSN of the container
23457651
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Scopus