The European Action against Food Loss and Waste: Co-Regulation and Collisions on the Way to the Sustainable Development Goals

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Urban Food Waste: A Framework to Analyse Policies and Initiatives

“…In addition, recent literature focused on the role of cities in tackling food waste [28,30,33,43,57]. Nevertheless, the majority of studies on food waste policies focused on the national and supranational level [51,52,[58][59][60][61][62][63][64]. Against this backdrop, five crucial themes that need to be addressed when conducting an analysis of urban food waste policies emerged from the review.…”

“…Furthermore, restaurants and supermarkets are crucial players in the reduction in food waste, and have already been targeted by several pieces of food waste legislation through the creation of fiscal incentives to reduce food waste [31,34,52] or through social campaigns aimed at distributing food to needy citizens [80]. Finally, hospitals can play a crucial role in tackling food waste [34], not only in terms of awareness-raising among staff and patients, but also as organisers of greener public procurement through their canteens [81].…”

“…This is even more apparent in food waste research, with existing frameworks [51] still poorly able to grasp the multiple actors and areas of interventions characterising food waste management in urban contexts. In recent years, indeed, research and policy on food waste have mainly focused on the national or supranational level [51][52][53], while less attention has been paid to the decentralisation and devolution of food waste governance to local governments, such as municipalities [28,31,54]. In addition, the few studies attempting to measure the alignment of cities' policies with SDG12 of the UN 2030 Agenda have suffered from a lack of data on urban food waste levels [36,37], thus providing limited analyses of urban food waste policies.…”