Abstract Although food waste is gaining attention as an issue of environmental, social, and economic concern, this topic has only been taken up minimally by food scholars, despite its apparent relevance to food systems scholarship. Through a literature scan of nine food systems journals, we identify and characterize all instances of “food waste” and “food loss” mentions. We find that reference to this important topic is growing within food studies but is still a marginal concept. To help advance the discourse on food wastage, we suggest three potential areas of food systems research that could extend the scholarship, particularly drawing from analytical developments in discard studies. We encourage food studies scholars to consider waste as an intrinsic element of the food systems they study and as a fruitful boundary topic for future research.

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从农场到餐桌……甚至更远？呼吁将食物垃圾纳入食物系统研究

摘要 尽管食物浪费作为一个环境、社会和经济问题而受到关注，但该主题仅被食品学者最低限度地考虑，尽管它与食品系统研究有明显的相关性。通过对九种食品系统期刊的文献扫描，我们识别并描述了所有提及“食物浪费”和“食物损失”的实例。我们发现在食品研究中对这一重要主题的提及越来越多，但仍然是一个边缘概念。为了帮助推进关于食物浪费的讨论，我们建议可以扩展奖学金的食物系统研究的三个潜在领域，特别是借鉴丢弃研究的分析发展。我们鼓励食品研究学者将浪费视为他们研究的食品系统的一个内在元素，并作为未来研究的富有成果的边界主题。