Food Waste Across the Supply Chain: A U.S. Perspective on a Global Problem

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This is a compilation and enrichment of papers presented at The Last Food Mile Conference held at the University of Pennsylvania in December 2014. Topics include food waste in the industry sector and how it is handled, characteristics of food waste in restaurants and in homes, how food waste can be measured, what interventions are most effective, food recovery from the supply chain and how it is diverted and used, and how food marketing affects consumption and waste. Click links here to view the Table of Contents and the Introduction.

ISBN 978-1-887383-35-6, March 2016, 360 pp. Available free online.

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