Food waste national day
The national day of 5 February remind us that waste food is one the environmental and socio-economic issues that humanity is facing. For this reasons, ISPRA has produced a report that reviews international literature and analyzes the most relevant links between food wastage and other issues, such a land/soil, water, energy consumption, degradation of biological integrity, climate change, alteration of the nitrogen cycle, food safety and sovereignty, circular bioeconomy, in order to build a socio-ecological vision
The report then analyzes the available data at global, European and Italian level, highlighting the critical extent and effects of food wastage. The need to shift focus from recover and recycling to the indispensable structural prevention is identified as a means to reduce surplus formation and consequent wastage. Prevention proposals are widely dealt and aimed at a strategy that increases ecological and social resilience by structurally transforming food systems.
Report Food waste : a systemic approach for structural prevention and reduction