Abstract
This chapter is intended as “food for thought” for a holistic perspective on Food Waste Management, linking inductive research of an EU-project with the scope of an interdisciplinary vision combining aspects of macro-economics, ecology and ethics. The academic contribution is to demonstrate the broad variety of choices for decision-makers in different geographical and ethnic regions in a joint international effort to optimize the availability of harvested food through all the global/national food chains to the consumers; this includes those consumers who are for various reasons not able to pay the market-price at all. The original terminus “distribution” taken from the business administration literature is enlarged in this chapter by categories such as “food-recovery” and Food banks/charities.
TopData-Frame And Estimates
Within the scope of this chapter, some selected macro- and micro-data will demonstrate the relevance of the topic for the economies, ecology and ethics.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Total Supply Chain II: Enlarged Total Supply Chain I by Food Banks and charities receiving not sold products.
Food Waste Manager: Person being trained especially for waste reduction and food recovery.
Food Bank: Non-Government Organisation collecting food for underpriviledged individuals or Charities.
New Equilibrium: Finding an optimum between economics, ecology and ethics.
Food Waste: Food not sold due to oversupply and landing in the waste box.
Food Losses: Food intended for human beings lost by either bad weather conditions or insufficient technologies.
FoRWaRd: EU Project “Food Recovery and Waste Reduction.”
Total Supply Chain I: Value chain starting from agriculture uptill retail ending finally at the consumer.