Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 25 ISSUE 2
Written by Daniel NIJLOVEANU, Dumitrel-Victor TITA, Nicolae BOLD, Doru ANASTASIU POPESCU, Nicoleta GHEORGHE-PATRACHIOIU

The Food Loss and Waste (FLW) phenomenon is an important issue in the current development of economy as a whole. This phenomenon is emerging in all economic contexts, starting from food production and processing, known as food loss (FL), to the consuming stages, known as food waste (FW). In this matter, identifying key causes and quantifying the impact of FLW is essential. The current paper is an integrated summative description of several research results related to FLW obtained by the authors and elaborated in previous papers. Thus, the paper includes a bird-eye view of the entire model alongside the agri-food chain, taking into account modalities of measuring the FL during its components and a specific measurement of FW on the consuming component. The approach takes into account methodologies and instruments from various domains, such as statistics, data processing, automated learning (e.g., machine learning), System Dynamics or networks. The expected results are the description of the model and the resulted data. Conclusions can be used further to study and challenge the FLW phenomenon causes effects for any interested stakeholders.

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