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Implementing the circular economy paradigm in the agri-food supply chain: The role of food waste prevention technologies
Resources, Conservation and Recycling ( IF 13.2 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-03 , DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105114
Federica Ciccullo , Raffaella Cagliano , Giulia Bartezzaghi , Alessandro Perego

Food systems are plagued by the grand sustainability challenge of food waste, which represents a urging issue from economic, environmental and social point of view.

dThe Circular Economy paradigm can open up different actions which are framed within the so-called Food Waste Hierarchy (FWH). In these regards, scholars recommend to leverage on those practices that are able to prevent the generation of surplus food, preserving a higher share of the sustainable value. For these pre-harvest and post-harvest practices that go under the name of prevention or reuse strategies in different FWH, technology plays a crucial role. Through a set of 34 semi-structured interviews with technology providers as well as with companies in the agri-food supply chain, the present work investigates extensively the range of the available technologies and the detailed objectives of such technologies for food loss and waste prevention (i.e., forecasting, monitoring, grouping, shelf life extension, product quality and value upgrading). Moreover, different forms of collaboration enable to reach these objectives in different ways. Collaboration with technology providers can be based on continuous technical assistance and consulting for data elaboration and data analysis as well as on full data sharing and co-design, allowing to achieve a different impact on food loss and waste prevention.

Finally, our study reveals that the adoption of different technological options can represent the engine to establish vertical collaborations between the adopter of the technology and another stage in the agri-food supply chain, in order to fight food waste and loss with a coordinated supply chain effort.



中文翻译:

在农业食品供应链中实施循环经济范式:防止食物浪费技术的作用

粮食系统受到粮食浪费的巨大可持续性挑战的困扰,从经济,环境和社会的角度来看,这是一个亟待解决的问题。

d循环经济范式可以在所谓的食物垃圾层次结构(FWH)中提出不同的行动。在这些方面,学者们建议利用那些能够防止产生多余食物,保持更高份额的可持续价值的做法。对于这些在不同FWH中以预防或重用策略命名的收获前和收获后实践,技术起着至关重要的作用。通过对技术提供者以及农业食品供应链中的公司进行的34次半结构化访谈,本工作广泛地研究了可用技术的范围以及此类技术在防止食品损失和浪费方面的详细目标(例如,预测,监控,分组,保质期延长,产品质量和价值提升)。此外,不同形式的协作可以以不同方式实现这些目标。与技术提供者的合作可以基于持续的技术援助和咨询,以进行数据的阐述和数据分析,也可以基于完整的数据共享和协同设计,从而对粮食损失和废物预防产生不同的影响。

最后,我们的研究表明,采用不同的技术选择可以代表在该技术的采用者与农业食品供应链的另一个阶段之间建立纵向协作的引擎,以便通过协调的供应链来应对食品浪费和损失努力。

更新日期:2020-09-03
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