Food waste management strategies

Call for Papers

The Sustainable Agriculture journal invites submissions for a special issue titled "Food waste management strategies". This issue aims to address the following research topics, which are crucial in shaping effective food waste management strategies:

Tailored Food Waste Management Strategies: Explore strategies tailored to specific regions, food sectors, or food commodities. This includes policy-driven approaches, quantifying consequences, technical enhancements in the food supply chain, diverse downstream food waste treatments, and comparative assessments of treatment technologies based on life cycle analysis and cost-benefit analysis.
Climate Change Impact: Assess the climate change impact of various food waste management strategies. This involves quantifying greenhouse gas emissions resulting from food waste across different sectors, stages, and regions of the food systems.
Influences on Food Waste Production: Examine factors that influence food waste production and management, whether from a bottom-up or top-down perspective. This may encompass adjusted farming structures, shifts in food supply chains, government subsidies, advertising, and more.
Resilience of Food Waste Management Strategies: Analyze the robustness and stability of food waste management strategies in the face of environmental shocks, socioeconomic dynamics, aging populations, and other critical variables.
Data Science and Machine Learning: Investigate the role of Data Science and Machine Learning in enhancing food waste management, both locally and globally. Explore applications of these technologies to optimize food waste reduction efforts.
Consumer Behaviour: Study consumer behaviour and its influence on food waste management. Conduct case studies using questionnaires to assess customer behaviours across various attributes such as gender, age, income, culture, and location.