Wasted Potential: Tackling Food Loss and Waste Across Transforming Food Systems
As the world seeks to achieve zero hunger and mitigate the environmental degradation tied to food production and consumption, reducing food loss and waste is a critical challenge for policymakers in developed and developing countries alike.
Wasted Potential: Tackling Food Loss and Waste Across Transforming Food Systems provides an evidence-based framework for addressing food loss and waste as a means to improve access to healthy diets.
This open access book examines how food systems reforms can support efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12—“responsible consumption and production”—by reducing food loss and waste in support of sustainable, safe, and nutritious diets in countries at different points of structural transformation. The authors set forth a policy agenda that builds demand for diverse, nutritious foods in order to incentivize food loss and waste reduction while mitigating tradeoffs between food security, environmental sustainability, and socioeconomic welfare.
This book is part of Springer Nature’s Sustainable Development Goals Series.
Reviews
“Wasted Potential provides a rigorous and much-needed systems perspective on food loss and waste, expertly bridging the gaps between food security, environmental sustainability, and economic development. Boiteau and Pingali offer a clear, actionable roadmap for aligning food system transformation with global development goals. Their comprehensive approach to tackling food loss and waste brings much-needed coherence to a fragmented field and offers practical guidance for future action to policymakers, researchers, and development practitioners.”
—Jessica Fanzo, Professor of Climate and Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative, Columbia Climate School
About the authors
Jocelyn Boiteau is the director of nutrition impact and innovation at Food Systems for the Future. She is a TCI alumna with a PhD in international nutrition.
Prabhu Pingali is the founding director of TCI. He is a professor at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, with an appointment in the Department of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University.