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The Italian Observatory on Food Surplus, Recovery, and Waste: The Development Process and Future Achievements

Food loss and waste (FLW) is an environmental, social, and economic problem. Countries all around the world are looking for efficient strategies to prevent and reduce FLW, as recommended by target 12.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The European Union (EU) is stro...

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Autores principales: Grant, Federica, Rossi, Laura
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8829391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35155514
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.787982
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description Food loss and waste (FLW) is an environmental, social, and economic problem. Countries all around the world are looking for efficient strategies to prevent and reduce FLW, as recommended by target 12.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The European Union (EU) is strongly committed to helping solve the FLW issue, setting up the Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste, and adopting the Farm to Fork Strategy. Italy has also adopted a consolidated approach toward this issue, in particular through the redistribution of food surplus to those in need, a policy that was instituted with the Gadda Law 166/2016. Importantly, this normative framework also provided for the establishment of the National Observatory on Food Surplus, Recovery, and Waste [Osservatorio sulle Eccedenze, i Recuperi e gli Sprechi Alimentari (OERSA)]. This article describes the creation and development of the OERSA, as the technical entity supporting national FLW policies. One of the first actions taken by the OERSA was that of mapping the FLW initiatives that were being implemented along the entire food supply chain in Italy. This gave the OERSA a solid foundation on which to begin working on two different fronts: (1) Collecting data regarding the primary production sector and at the consumer level and (2) Establishing educational programs and awareness campaigns. The data collected by the OERSA highlight that, although several actors of the Italian supply chain are already conscious of the causes of FLW, new strategies that focus on innovation and cooperation should be encouraged.
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spelling pubmed-88293912022-02-11 The Italian Observatory on Food Surplus, Recovery, and Waste: The Development Process and Future Achievements Grant, Federica Rossi, Laura Front Nutr Nutrition Food loss and waste (FLW) is an environmental, social, and economic problem. Countries all around the world are looking for efficient strategies to prevent and reduce FLW, as recommended by target 12.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The European Union (EU) is strongly committed to helping solve the FLW issue, setting up the Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste, and adopting the Farm to Fork Strategy. Italy has also adopted a consolidated approach toward this issue, in particular through the redistribution of food surplus to those in need, a policy that was instituted with the Gadda Law 166/2016. Importantly, this normative framework also provided for the establishment of the National Observatory on Food Surplus, Recovery, and Waste [Osservatorio sulle Eccedenze, i Recuperi e gli Sprechi Alimentari (OERSA)]. This article describes the creation and development of the OERSA, as the technical entity supporting national FLW policies. One of the first actions taken by the OERSA was that of mapping the FLW initiatives that were being implemented along the entire food supply chain in Italy. This gave the OERSA a solid foundation on which to begin working on two different fronts: (1) Collecting data regarding the primary production sector and at the consumer level and (2) Establishing educational programs and awareness campaigns. The data collected by the OERSA highlight that, although several actors of the Italian supply chain are already conscious of the causes of FLW, new strategies that focus on innovation and cooperation should be encouraged. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8829391/ /pubmed/35155514 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.787982 Text en Copyright © 2022 Grant and Rossi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title The Italian Observatory on Food Surplus, Recovery, and Waste: The Development Process and Future Achievements
title_full The Italian Observatory on Food Surplus, Recovery, and Waste: The Development Process and Future Achievements
title_fullStr The Italian Observatory on Food Surplus, Recovery, and Waste: The Development Process and Future Achievements
title_full_unstemmed The Italian Observatory on Food Surplus, Recovery, and Waste: The Development Process and Future Achievements
title_short The Italian Observatory on Food Surplus, Recovery, and Waste: The Development Process and Future Achievements
title_sort italian observatory on food surplus, recovery, and waste: the development process and future achievements
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8829391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35155514
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.787982
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