Food Waste Management Solving the Wicked Problem

This book focuses on the crucial sustainability challenge of reducing food waste at the level of consumer-society. Providing an in-depth, research-based overview of the multifaceted problem, it considers environmental, economic, social and ethical factors

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od Waste Management Solving the Wicked Problem

Food Waste Management

Elina Närvänen · Nina Mesiranta · Malla Mattila · Anna Heikkinen Editors

Food Waste Management Solving the Wicked Problem

Editors Elina Närvänen Tampere University Tampere, Finland

Nina Mesiranta Tampere University Tampere, Finland

Malla Mattila Tampere University Tampere, Finland

Anna Heikkinen Tampere University Tampere, Finland

ISBN 978-3-030-20560-7 ISBN 978-3-030-20561-4  (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20561-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 Chapters 1, 2, 12 and 16 are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For further details see license information in the chapters. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Foreword

Food waste—as the editors and contributors to this excellent volume demonstrate—is a wicked problem. It brings many of the tensions and failures of existing food systems into sharp relief. Recent estimates suggest that between 30 and 50% of global food production never reaches a human stomach. At the same time, many people worldwide do not have access to sufficient calories or nutrition on a daily basis. Consumers in affluent nations waste almost as much food as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa. Wasting food carries significant economic costs ($680 billion in industrialised countries and $310 billion annually in developing countries). The environmental implications are similarly arresting: if food waste were a country, it would be the world’s 3rd highe