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@article{Carlsen2023FoodWT, title={Food Waste: The Good, the Bad, and (Maybe) the Ugly}, author={Lars Carlsen}, journal={Standards}, year={2023}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:256976932}}
  • Lars Carlsen
  • Published in Standards 16 February 2023
  • Environmental Science, Economics

Approximately one-third of the food produced globally—close to 1 billion tons—ends up as waste, and, at the same time, more than 800 million people are undernourished, which makes Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, to halve food waste by 2020, rather ambitious if not illusory. In the present study, data on food waste in households, the food service sector, and the retail sector are used as indicators for 78 countries that are analyzed by applying a partial order methodology—allowing all…

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