Food Losses
1 2016-04-01T08:03:53-07:00 Christopher Dabon b440b7f1abad781129e9d2d59f7cf69ae8aa7810 8096 1 This graphic illustrates the juxtaposition between food waste at the pre-consumption and consumption stages. It highlights the disproportionate stages of food waste that occur across the globe per capita. The x-axis refers to locations and the y-axis refers to per capita kg/year of food waste. plain 2016-04-01T08:03:53-07:00 Christopher Dabon b440b7f1abad781129e9d2d59f7cf69ae8aa7810This page is referenced by:
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Stages of Production and Consumption
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"This law will have no affect on the problem of overproduction of food and upstream distribution waste, while giving the false - and even dangerous - impression of a miracle cure" (Les Gars'pilleurs, 2015).
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The graphic represents the progression of food production and consumption (Timmermans, 2014). The French legislation focuses explicitly on the retail stage. As we can see this fails to account for the six other stages that food waste occurs at.
This next graphic illustrates the disproportionate levels of food waste that occur between pre-consumption and consumption. The purpose of this graphic is to highlight how the action, in this case the legislation passed, does not add up to the problem, which is food waste. This graphic effectively illustrates that the majority of food waste is taking place during the pre-consumption stages in all locations. Ergo, by interpreting it we can decipher that if we want to address food waste properly we must consider legislation or management strategies that incorporates pre-consumption food losses (Liboiron, 2014). This is something that the Gars'pilleurs make explicit reference too, perhaps rightfully so.
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