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Definition of Food Consumption, Loss, and Waste
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: Received: 2 February 2024 / Approved: 2 February 2024 / Online: 4 February 2024 (17:14:43 CET)
How to cite: Ramaprasad, A.; Kashyap, S. Definition of Food Consumption, Loss, and Waste. Preprints 2024, 2024020186. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0186.v1 Ramaprasad, A.; Kashyap, S. Definition of Food Consumption, Loss, and Waste. Preprints 2024, 2024020186. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0186.v1
Abstract
The global food system has three recognized challenges: (a)increasing the availability of food consumption, (b) reducing food loss, and (c) reducing food waste. The increasing demand for food consumption, increasing quantity of food loss, and corresponding increase in food waste are resulting in serious health, aesthetic, social, economic, and environmental problems due to a lack of appropriate planning and management. Despite its importance, there is no clear, concise, and comprehensive definition of food consumption, loss, and waste. Generally, food consumption, food loss, and food waste are dealt with separately. This article presents a logically constructed ontological framework of food consumption, loss, and waste. It gives equal importance to all three aspects of global food management. The systematic ontological framework is general, and the analysis can be applied to any country. The framework deconstructs the combinatorial complexity of the problem and explicates the pathways to manage the consumption, loss, and waste. The ontological framework encapsulates 19*8*7*4*5*6 = 25,536 possible components of the challenge. A critical analysis based on available data using the framework will help to develop strategies to deal with the problem. It can help to discover the gaps and to find ways to bridge the gaps. It is novel to conceptualize food consumption, loss, and waste together.
Keywords
Ontological analysis, Systematic, Food consumption, Food loss, Food waste
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Waste Management and Disposal
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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