Routledge Handbook of Food Waste

This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state of the current art and science of food waste from multiple perspectives.The issue of food waste has emerged in recent years as a major global problem. Recent research has enabled greater understanding and measurement of loss and waste throughout food supply chains, shedding light on contributing factors and practical solutions. This book includes perspectives and disciplines ranging from agriculture, food science, industrial ecology, history, economics, consumer behaviour, geography, theology, planning, sociology, and environmental policy among others. The Routledge Handbook of Food Waste addresses new and ongoing debates around systemic causes and solutions, including behaviour change, social innovation, new technologies, spirituality, redistribution, animal feed, and activism. The chapters describe and evaluate country case studies, waste management, treatment, prevention, and reduction approaches, and compares research methodologies for better understanding food wastage.This book is essential reading for the growing number of food waste scholars, practitioners, and policy makers interested in researching, theorising, debating, and solving the multifaceted phenomenon of food waste.

Food Waste 4.0: An Introduction to Contemporary Food Waste StudiesChristian Reynolds, Tammara Soma, Charlotte Spring, Jordon LazellPart I Understanding Modern Food Waste Regimes: Historical, Political Economic and Spiritual Dimensions1. After Market: Capital, Surplus, and the Social Afterlives of Food WasteDavid Boarder Giles2. The Perfect Storm: A History of Food WasteAndrew F. Smith3. Food Waste, Religion and Spirituality: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ApproachesTanhum Yoreh and Stephen Scharper4. Interrogating Waste - The Role of Vastogenesis in 21st Century CapitalismJon ClokePart II Food Waste (and Loss) along the Food Supply Chain and Institutions5. Produce loss and waste in Agricultural ProductionLisa K. Johnson6. Food Waste in Processing and DistributionMartin Gooch and Abdel Felfel7. Food Waste (and Loss) at the Retail LevelFelicitas Schneider and Mattias Eriksson8. Household Food WasteKate Parizeau9. Food Waste in the Service Sector: Key concepts, measurement methods and best practicesKirsi Silvennoinen, Sampsa Nisonen and Oona PietiläinenPart III Overview of Regional Food Waste - Research, Policy, and Legal Approaches10. Food Waste in the United Kingdom and European UnionStephen Porter11. Food Loss and Waste Measurement Methods and Estimates for the United StatesJean Buzby and Claudia Fabiano12. Apprehending Food Waste in Asia: Policies, Practices and Promising TrendsMarlyne Sahakian, Megha Shenoy, Tammara Soma, Atsushi Watanabe, Ra Yagasa, Dickella Gamaralalage Jagath Permakumara, Chen Liu, Abigail Marie Favis and Czarina Saloma13. Food Waste in South Africa and Saudi ArabiaSuzan Oelofse, Anton Nahman, Ramy Salem Deeb, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Mirza Barjess Baig and Christian Reynolds14. Food waste in Australia and New ZealandMiranda Mirosa, David Pearson and Christian Reynolds15. Estimating total and per capita food waste in Brazilian Households: A Scenario AnalysisGlenio Piran Dal’Magro and Edson TalandiniPart IV Methodologies in Food Waste Studies16. Food Waste Audits, Surveys and New TechnologiesSally Geislar17. Moving Beyond the What and How much to the Why? Researching food Waste at the Consumer LevelLaura Moreno, Jordon Lazell, Vicki Mavrakis and Belinda Li18. Applying Behaviour Change Methods to Food WasteSandra Davison, Lisanne van Geffen, Erica van Herpen and Anne Sharp19. All My Relations: Applying Social Innovation and Indigenous Methodology to Challenge the Paradigm of Food WasteTammara Soma, Belinda Li, Adrianne Lickers, Sean Geobey and Rafaella Gutierrez20. Modelling Approaches to Food Waste: Discrete Event Simulation; Machine Learning; Bayesian networks; Agent Based Simulation; and Mass Balance estimationCansu Kandemier, Christian Reynolds, Monika Verma, Matthew Grainger, Gavin Stewart, Simone Righi, Simone Piras, Marco Setti, Matteo Vittuari and Tom QuestedPart V Solutions to Food Waste?21. Surplus Food RedistributionJane Midgley22. Keeping Unavoidable Food Waste in the Food Chain as Animal FeedMartin Bowman, Christina O’Sullivan and Karen Luyckx23. From Dumpster Dives to Disco Vibes: The Shifting Shape of Food Waste ActivismAlex Barnard and Marie Mourad24. The Effects of Labelling, Packaging and the Eating Environment on Consumer-Generated Food WasteMonica C. Labarge, Sarah Evans, Beth Vallen and Lauren G. Block25. Upcycling and valorisation of food wasteMohamed A. Gedi, Vincenzo di Bari, Roger Ibbett, Randa Darwish, Ogueri Nwaiwu, Zainudin Umar, Deepa Agarwal; Richard Worrall, David Gray and Tim Foster26. Exploring the Potential of Digital Food Waste Prevention in the Restaurant IndustryJan Mayer and Jaz Hee-jeong Choi27. Food Waste Management, treatment and disposal options. A review and future considerationsDaniel Hoornweg, Scott Lougheed, Mark Walker, Ramy Salemdeeb, Tammara Soma and Christian ReynoldsPart VI Debates in Food Waste Studies and Looking Ahead28. Conduits that bite back: Challenging the ‘win-win’ solutions of food recalls and redistributionScott Lougheed and Charlotte Spring29. Are You Buying Food Waste? The Roles Technology Can Play in (Re)Designing the Food Retail ExperienceGeremy Farr-Wharton, Timur Osadchiy and Peter Lyle30. A Brief Overview of Current Food Waste Research: The What, Why, How and Future DirectionsJessica Aschemann-Witzel, Ezra Ho and Tammara Soma31. Challenging hegemonic conceptions of food waste: critical reflections from a food waste activist Martin Bowman

Christian Reynolds is a Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, a Technical Specialist in international food sustainability at WRAP, UK, and an adjunct Research Fellow at the Barbara Hardy Institute for Sustainable Environments and Technologies, University of South Australia. His research examines the economic and environmental impacts of food consumption; with focus upon food waste, and sustainable, healthy, and affordable diets.Tammara Soma is an Assistant Professor in Planning at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. She is the Research Director and also the Co-Founder of the Food Systems Lab, the first social innovation lab to address the issue of food waste and food insecurity in Canada.Charlotte Spring is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Calgary. Her PhD compared UK surplus food redistribution as charitable and activist practice. She has also undertaken considerablecampaign work focusing critically on the relationships between food wastage and food insecurity.Jordon Lazell is a Researcher at the Centre for Business in Society in the Faculty of Business and Law at Coventry University, UK. His research concerns sustainable consumption and production practices with a specific interest in food waste.