An introduction to the global history of food waste

Barnett, Eleanor 2024. An introduction to the global history of food waste. [Online]. Bloomsbury Food Library: Bloomsbury. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350886896.006

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Abstract

Wasting food is increasingly becoming a matter of public concern as we come to terms with the dual climate and cost of living crises. A third of the food we produce globally goes to waste, amounting to a financial loss of $1 trillion a year. Meanwhile, if all this needlessly discarded produce were a country it would be the third greatest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Activists, most notably Tristram Stuart and Jonathan Bloom, who in 2009 published Waste and American Wasteland respectively, have worked to expose the profligacy of the modern food system especially in the developed world. These books present food waste as a moral issue that affects individual consumers, businesses, and governments alike. However, the rich and topical subject of food waste is only now beginning to become the focus of scholarly study.

Item Type:	Website Content
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Bloomsbury
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2024 13:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/168817

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