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Food Loss and Waste Policy This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of signifcant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted. Investigating food waste and loss under an interdisciplinary lens, the contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches, including quantitative and qualitative techniques, drawing on in-depth case studies and action research. The volume is organised into four parts: Understanding Food Loss and Waste, International Programmes, National Policies, and Local Initiatives. The frst part introduces the reader to the concept of food loss and waste, how it can be measured, its causes and consequences, and how it can be reduced. The second part is dedicated to international and cross-country case studies, with six chapters reviewing national policies implemented in France, Italy, Romania, Japan, China, and the United States. In Part Four, three chapters are dedicated to local food recovery and redistribution initiatives. By focusing on diferent territories and diferent levels of governance, the book provides a detailed evaluation of food loss and waste policies, the barriers and opportunities of implementing the policies, as well as the impact they are actually having. The chapters are both descriptive and evaluative and draw out lessons for designing, implementing, and reforming programmes. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars working on food waste, food policy, sustainable food systems, agricultural production and supply chains, and public policy, as well as policymakers involved with developing and implementing programmes and policies to regulate and reduce food waste and loss. Simone Busetti is a policy analyst and evaluator and is currently Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Analysis at the University of Teramo, Italy. He has worked on local development, public administration reform, and food policy and served as a professional evaluator for several public administrations in Italy. Noemi Pace is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Teramo. She is also a research fellow at the UCL Centre for Global Health Economics, UK, and a research fellow in the Center for Economic and International Studies (CEIS) at the University of Tor Vergata, Italy. Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions Edited by Chiara Tornaghi and Michiel Dehaene Food, Senses and the City Edited by Ferne Edwards, Roos Gerritsen and Grit Wesser True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale Edited by Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Lauren E. Baker and Paula A. Daniels Holiday Hunger in the UK Local Responses to Childhood Food Insecurity Michael A. Long, Margaret Anne Defeyter and Paul B. Stretesky School Farms Feeding and Educating Children Edited by Alshimaa Aboelmakarem Farag, Samaa Badawi, Gurpinder Lalli and Maya Kamareddine The Vegan Evolution Transforming Diets and Agriculture Gregory F. Tague Food Loss and Waste Policy From Theory to Practice Edited by Simone Busetti and Noemi Pace Rewilding Food and the Self Critical Conversations from Europe Edited by Sébastien Dalgalarrondo and Tristan Fournier For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ books/series/RSFSE Food Loss and Waste Policy From Theory to Practice Edited by Simone Busetti and Noemi Pace Cover image: Getty First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Simone Busetti and Noemi Pace; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Simone Busetti and Noemi Pace to be identifed as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifcation and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Busetti, Simone, editor. | Pace, Noemi, editor. Title: Food loss and waste policy : from theory to practice / Simone Busetti, Noemi Pace. Description: New York, NY : Routledge, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifers: LCCN 2022017174 (print) | LCCN 2022017175 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032129419 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032129358 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003226932 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Food waste. | Food industry and trade. | Food supply. | Food security. Classifcation: LCC HD9000.5 .F6635 2022 (print) | LCC HD9000.5 (ebook) | DDC 338.1/9—dc23/eng/20220718 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022017174 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022017175 ISBN: 978-1-032-12941-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-12935-8 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-22693-2 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003226932 Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of contributors viii Is this the era of food waste policy? 1 SIMONE BUSETTI AND NOEMI PACE PART 1 Understanding food loss and waste 11 1 Assessing food loss and waste: approaches, methodologies, and practices 13 CLARA CICATIELLO 2 The policy problem: the causes and consequences of food loss and waste 25 NOEMI PACE 3 Tackling food loss and waste: an overview of policy actions 42 CHRISTIAN REYNOLDS PART 2 International programmes 61 4 The contribution of social protection to reducing food loss and waste 63 QIUSHI YUE, DANIELLA SALAZAR HERRERA, AND OMAR BENAMMOUR vi Contents 5 Reducing food loss in rural development projects. Examples from IFAD’s investments 78 ROMINA CAVATASSI, ROBERT DELVE, AND GIUSEPPE MAGGIO 6 The European Union and the fght against food waste and losses: from policy to practice 92 FABRIZIO D’ANGELO PART 3 National policies 107 7 Did France really ban food waste? Lessons from a pioneering national regulation 109 MARIE MOURAD 8 Food waste policy in Italy: from decision to implementation 124 SIMONE BUSETTI 9 Food waste policy in Romania: a case study 141 CRISTINA VASILESCU 10 Japan’s practices on food waste reduction 157 CHEN LIU 11 The political economy of anti-food-waste in China: from anti-corruption to enhancing food security 174 XIAOHUA YU 12 History and legacy of the U.S. Good Samaritan Food Donation Law 191 EMILY M. BROAD LEIB AND ARIEL ARDURA PART 4 Local initiatives 207 13 Social innovation for food waste reduction: surplus food redistribution 209 ANNA R. DAVIES AND ALWYNNE MCGEEVER Contents vii 14 Mitigating barriers to surplus food donation in Italian retail and food service 224 GIULIA BARTEZZAGHI, CLAUDIA COLICCHIA, PAOLA GARRONE, MARCO MELACINI, ALESSANDRO PEREGO, AND ANDREA RIZZUNI 15 Food waste reduction through food re-distribution actions during COVID-19 in Brazil 240 LUCIANA MARQUES VIEIRA AND DANIELE ECKERT MATZEMBACHER What works in food loss and waste policy: suggestions from the case studies 252 SIMONE BUSETTI Index 263 Contributors Ariel Ardura is Policy attorney based in Washington D.C. Her work primarily focuses on food systems and public health. She currently works as legislative counsel for the D.C. Council; she previously worked as Senior Fellow at the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic. Giulia Bartezzaghi is Program Manager of the Food Sustainability Lab and Director of the Food Sustainability Observatory at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering. Her research is focused on sustainability-oriented innovation and circular economy in the agri-food sector. Omar Benammour is Social Protection Specialist at the Food and Agricul- ture Organization (FAO) of the UN, in the Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equity division. Previously, he was Social Protection and Safety Nets Ofcer at the World Food Programme (WFP) and Regional School Feeding and Safety Nets Ofcer for West Africa. Emily M. Broad Leib, JD, is Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Founding Director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, and Deputy Director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. Simone Busetti is Policy analyst and Evaluator and is currently Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Analysis at the University of Teramo. He has worked on local development, public administration reform, and food policy and served as a professional evaluator for several public administrations in Italy. Romina Cavatassi is Lead economist in IFAD. She leads the Impact Assess- ment and Research, managed the Rural Development Report 2021, and led the Environment and Climate team. She holds a Ph.D. from Wageningen University, an M.Sc. from the LSE, and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Bologna. Clara Cicatiello is Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at Univer- sity of Tuscia, Italy. Since 2020, she is the coordinator of the H2020 project Contributors ix LOWINFOOD, focusing on implementation of innovations against food waste. She is Lecturer in food marketing and development economics and author of 31 Scopus-indexed articles, with over 500 citations. Chen Liu, Ph.D., is Senior researcher at the Institute for Global Environmen- tal Strategies (IGES). Before joining IGES, she worked as an associate professor in Nagoya University (2010–2014), Japan. She has worked on a wide range of environmental issues, including municipal solid waste, 3R policies, food production, consumption, and waste. Claudia Colicchia is Associate Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Man- agement at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, and Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Business, Law and Politics, University of Hull, UK. She collaborates with the Food Sustainability Lab at Politecnico di Milano. Fabrizio D’Angelo is Sustainability Project Ofcer at the European Eco- nomic and Social Committee (EESC) and at the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), where he is running a project on food waste monitor- ing and food donation. He is also a member of the EU Inter-institutional group on Green Public Procurement. Anna R. Davies is Professor and Chair of Geography, Environment & Soci- ety at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. She is the princi- pal investigator for multiple research projects, including the ERC research project, SHARECITY, which uses a collaborative and trans-disciplinary approach to assess the practice and sustainability potential of city-based food sharing economies. Robert Delve is Lead global technical advisor, agronomy in IFAD, leading the team in providing technical support to the design, supervision, and implementation of projects. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of London. Before joining IFAD, he lived and worked in Africa for more than 25 years. Daniele Eckert Matzembacher holds a Ph.D. degree in Management from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. She has experi- ence over ten years in the market, working in the public and private sectors in the management area, project coordination, and team management. Paola Garrone is Full Professor of Business and Industrial Economics at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics and Indus- trial Engineering. Paola is the School’s deputy director for Sustainability, and a co-director of the Food Sustainability Lab. Her research focuses on food recovery and redistribution, sustainable agri-food start-ups and packaging innovation. Giuseppe Maggio is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Palermo, and his research applies spatial models to answer questions in the