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Solving the big “puzzle” of food loss and waste upcycling in metropolitan areasView Abstract Oral presentationCircularity in Urban Regions01:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2022/02/16 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/02/16 14:00:00 UTC
Food loss and waste (FLW) in metropolitan areas, generally downcycled, is still a bottleneck to achieving a circular food system. Implementation of Circularity of food is hampered because of the lack of structured frameworks using criteria to orchestrate the upcycling of food to higher-valued applications, such as food-to-food, and the divergence of goals and approaches. Based on a literature review, we collected the different building blocks for evaluation and implementation of new circular opportunities for FLW valorization, intending to bring clarity to the transition to a more circular food chain. Depending on the FLW characteristics and monitoring outcomes, these opportunities range from the current downcycled pathways to upcycled applications, from which there is more potential for achieving higher sustainability goals. Based on the results of our review, we will present the existing criteria, frameworks, support tools, and proposed solutions, together with missing criteria applicable to food-to-food pathways, for overcoming the barriers for integration and implementation within a metropolitan area.
Presenters Marta Rodriguez-Illera Scientist, Wageningen Food And Biobased Research Co-Authors
Food loss and waste hotspot identification in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area for circularity improvementView Abstract Oral presentationCircularity in Urban Regions01:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2022/02/16 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/02/16 14:00:00 UTC
Food loss and waste (FLW) quantification provide the basis for city policymakers to develop intervention strategies to valorize the FLW in a city for circularity purposes. The current knowledge on the amount of FLW in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (AMA) is still quite limited. Therefore, in this research, we used the data from multiple sources (including primary data, literature data, and data from public databases) to calculate the FLW volume, the associated nutrient losses, and GHG-emission footprints of the FLW by food item category and chain stage. Based on those three key performance indicators, we identified the hotspots of the FLW in AMA, i.e., the food loss and waste streams with the large volumes, rich nutrient values to be recovered and high GHG-emission footprint to be avoided. It has been found that bread at the retail and household FLW are the hotspots based on stream volume and nutrient losses. Animal-based FLW streams are the hotspots for GHG emissions due to the high emission factors.
Xuezhen Guo Scientist And Project Lead, Wageningen Food And Biobased Research Co-Authors Marta Rodriguez-Illera Scientist, Wageningen Food And Biobased Research
The Role of Cities in the Circularity TransitionView Abstract Oral presentationCircularity in Urban Regions01:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2022/02/16 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/02/16 14:00:00 UTC
In 2050, cities are projected to be responsible for consuming 80 % of all food produced. While only covering 2% of the surface, cities are not only characterized by unproportionally higher resource flows, but also by larger number of economic activities, more dense and multilayered social network structures, higher levels of political power, and distinctive food-related behaviors. Therefore, a crucial pathway to push transition towards a more circular food system will be through the engagement of cities. Still, the central role of cities in sustainability transitions, generally, and in food system transitions, specifically, is largely neglected. Specifically, we argue that greater consideration should be given to the spatial dimension of circular food systems, the agency of cities on it, and the complex local, national and global interlinkages. In this presentation, we propose how we can take advantage of the agency of cities, spatial agglomeration, and cross-scale complexity to provide unprecedented momentum to materialize transitions to circularity at multiple scales.
Marta Rodriguez-Illera
Roger Cremades
Eveline Van Leeuwen
