Food losses and waste: Navigating the inconsistencies

Global Food Security

Volumn 12, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-7

  Chaboud, Géraldine ^a   Daviron, Benoit ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Arguments; Definitions; Food losses; Food waste; Inconsistencies; Methodologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006142639     PISSN: 22119124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2016.11.004     Document Type: Review

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