The paradoxes of food waste reduction in the horticultural supply chain

Richards, Carol; Hurst, Bree; Messner, Rudolf; O'Connor, Grace

doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.12.002

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“…Empirical studies highlight the problem of tackling FLW as it conflicts with other business goals (Cicatiello et al, 2020; Messner et al, 2021; Richards et al, 2020). An alternative business strategy requires leaders to effectively respond to and seek affirmative actions and possibilities for understanding how individuals and teams can best contribute to complex sustainability challenges (Figge et al, 2021; Zhang & Han, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This lack of conceptual and empirical clarity is important because without knowing to manage paradoxes, the lack of understanding of the issues in this context could have significance and implications. That is, it could be that well‐intended actions could have unintended consequences, including negative feedback loops reinforcing overproduction (Messner et al, 2021) with associated environmental impacts (Richards et al, 2021). Future research integrating the vertical and horizontal implications of multiple level paradoxes could offer businesses alternative and creative solutions and novel business opportunities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Integrating decision support tools into businesses for sustainable development: A paradoxical approach to address the food waste challenge

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2022

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The food industry is increasingly using decision support tools to address the food loss and waste challenge. Extant food loss and waste tools predominantly focus on environmental metrics and do not sufficiently integrate important social and financial considerations. They have therefore been deemed to lack business readiness. This critical review aims to assess how tools can be integrated within organisations supporting the progress towards sustainability and what tensions are inherent in preventing and reducing food loss and waste (FLW). This review extends paradox theory by adding the dimensions of FLW and tools to previous research on paradoxes and sustainable development. The significance of the review is creating an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to rethink current business practices as necessary for addressing sustainability challenges. The review contributes to previous research in FLW‐reducing tools within the context of business responses to sustainability issues. The findings show the role of leadership in promoting participation and collaboration for positive environmental outcomes. These findings offer three practical recommendations for businesses: (1) simple yet comprehensive tools tailored to business needs can enhance decisions, (2) a paradoxical approach for considering food supply chain demands and (3) leaders should encourage individuals and teams to learn and collaborate for business success.

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Integrating decision support tools into businesses for sustainable development: A paradoxical approach to address the food waste challenge

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2022

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“…In order to ensure the nutrional security, along with enhancing the nutritional value, we need to work on reduced food-wastes that has a significant economic, environmental and social impact ( FAO, 2019 ). Several initiatives in estimating food waste and prevention has been proposed ( Moraes et al, 2021 ), however, devising methodologies in estimating and reducing food wastage is still a paradox ( Richards et al, 2021 ). This can be featured as an opportunity to overcome malnutrition in addition to food waste reduction and stabilize bio-economy with sustainable processing of food waste into bio-based products ( Sharma et al, 2021 ).…”

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Omics Technologies to Enhance Plant Based Functional Foods: An Overview

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Functional foods are natural products of plants that have health benefits beyond necessary nutrition. Functional foods are abundant in fruits, vegetables, spices, beverages and some are found in cereals, millets, pulses and oilseeds. Efforts to identify functional foods in our diet and their beneficial aspects are limited to few crops. Advances in sequencing and availability of different omics technologies have given opportunity to utilize these tools to enhance the functional components of the foods, thus ensuring the nutritional security. Integrated omics approaches including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics coupled with artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches can be used to improve the crops. This review provides insights into omics studies that are carried out to find the active components and crop improvement by enhancing the functional compounds in different plants including cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds, fruits, vegetables, spices, beverages and medicinal plants. There is a need to characterize functional foods that are being used in traditional medicines, as well as utilization of this knowledge to improve the staple foods in order to tackle malnutrition and hunger more effectively.

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“…Cross-checking the case studies puts forward propositions aimed at making theoretical contributions to the natural-resource-based view (NRBV). Richards, Hurst, Messner and O'Connor (2021) expanded the unit of analysis to include the whole horticultural supply chain in an attempt to identify existing paradoxes, and they used semi-structured and open questions and secondary data to do so. This study tries to take a more holistic view and avoid pointing out where the food is wasted, to indicate how and why it is wasted.…”

Section: Supply Chain Sidementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within this context, SCM has been evolving from being an isolated investigation perspective dealing with the interfaces between environmental and economic topics, to a vision of corporate social responsibility applied to the supply chain. These studies (Matzembacher et al, 2021;Mena et al, 2014;Richards et al, 2021) exemplify an advance in the research, from focusing on a single point, or on one relationship within the supply chain, to a more holistic analysis. While there are several limitations when it comes to measuring or generalizing in this kind of research, it engages multiple stakeholders in the task of tackling FLW.…”

Section: Supply Chain Sidementioning

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Methodological Approaches to Tackling Food Waste: Moving the Agenda Forward

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The causes of FLW are connected across food supply chains, from primary production to final consumption (Bilska, Wrzosek, Kołożyn-Krajewska, & Krajewski, 2016;Canali et al., 2017). Consequently, research into FLW has emerged as a priority issue for both academics and practitioners. Much of the research, however, focuses on just one activity in the food supply chain, not on the interactions between the different stakeholders, or on the complex phenomenon of FLW. FLW is a transdisciplinary topic, but a large area of interest in business and management comes from marketing (the majority of studies that analyze consumer food waste) and operations management literature. These two units of analysis and the methodological trends used in studying them are discussed below. Consumer sideDifferent methods are used for measuring consumer food waste, such as self-report surveys, food waste diaries, photo coding, and waste composition analysis (Quested, Palmer, Moreno, McDermott, & Schumacher, 2020).Given the need to standardize quantification across different countries as a means of tracking achievement of its Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, the United Nations Environment Programme suggests using waste composition analysis, and direct measurement in households via scales, or diaries. Diaries are useful for food that goes down

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The paradoxes of food waste reduction in the horticultural supply chain

Cited by 18 publications

References 37 publications

Integrating decision support tools into businesses for sustainable development: A paradoxical approach to address the food waste challenge

Integrating decision support tools into businesses for sustainable development: A paradoxical approach to address the food waste challenge

Omics Technologies to Enhance Plant Based Functional Foods: An Overview

Methodological Approaches to Tackling Food Waste: Moving the Agenda Forward

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