New Zealand’s food waste: Estimating the tonnes, value, calories and resources wasted

Agriculture (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Reynolds, Christian John ^a   Mirosa, Miranda ^b   Clothier, Brent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Food losses; Food security; Food waste; Footprint; Input output; LCA; Life cycle analysis; New Zealand; SEEA; Wastage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990248784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture6010009     Document Type: Article

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