Unpacking Food Waste

In February, the United Nations treated 500 delegates at its Environment Programme event in Kenya to a five-course meal. The surprising thing about this is that all the food served would have been rejected by European supermarkets despite being perfectly fit to eat. Waste food is an important issue for people interested in food provisioning. Waste …

Food waste is not an absolute concept

Dr John Strak, Honorary Professor in Food Economics at The University of Nottingham, wades in on recent reports regarding food wastage in the UK and the claim that we throw away half of our food.  The Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IME) has hit the headlines this week with its report on waste in the global food …