Quantifying food losses in South Africa and the costs of household food waste

Oelofse, Suzanna HHNahman, Anton2012-11-122012-11-122012-10Oelofse, SHH and Nahman, A. Quantifying food losses in South Africa and the costs of household food waste. 4th CSIR Biennial Conference: Real problems relevant solutions, CSIR, Pretoria, 9-10 October 2012http://hdl.handle.net/10204/62954th CSIR Biennial Conference: Real problems relevant solutions, CSIR, Pretoria, 9-10 October 2012Food waste is problematic for a number of reasons, including the loss of a potentially valuable food source or resource for use in other processes (e.g. energy generation or composting); wasted resources and emissions in the food supply chain; and the environmental impacts of disposing of organic waste to landfill. However, attempts to quantify food waste are constrained by limited data, particularly in developing countries. This research attempted to quantify food waste (including both pre-consumer food losses and post-consumer food waste) in South Africa. In addition, it estimated the economic costs of household food waste.enWasteFood wasteHousehold wasteFood lossesQuantifying food losses in South Africa and the costs of household food wasteConference PresentationOelofse, S. H., & Nahman, A. (2012). Quantifying food losses in South Africa and the costs of household food waste. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6295Oelofse, Suzanna HH, and Anton Nahman. "Quantifying food losses in South Africa and the costs of household food waste." (2012): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6295Oelofse SH, Nahman A, Quantifying food losses in South Africa and the costs of household food waste; 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6295 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Oelofse, Suzanna HH AU - Nahman, Anton AB - Food waste is problematic for a number of reasons, including the loss of a potentially valuable food source or resource for use in other processes (e.g. energy generation or composting); wasted resources and emissions in the food supply chain; and the environmental impacts of disposing of organic waste to landfill. However, attempts to quantify food waste are constrained by limited data, particularly in developing countries. This research attempted to quantify food waste (including both pre-consumer food losses and post-consumer food waste) in South Africa. In addition, it estimated the economic costs of household food waste. DA - 2012-10 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Waste KW - Food waste KW - Household waste KW - Food losses LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2012 T1 - Quantifying food losses in South Africa and the costs of household food waste TI - Quantifying food losses in South Africa and the costs of household food waste UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6295 ER -