1st Edition
The Economics of Food Loss in the Produce Industry
Section I
1 Introduction to food loss in the produce industry
Travis Minor and Suzanne Thornsbury
2 Loss and waste: are we really measuring a problem?
Elise Golan, Travis Minor, and Suzanne Thornsbury
3 Existing efforts in measuring and modeling early value-chain food losses
Brian E. Roe
4 Economic trade-offs in food loss policies
Fred Kuchler and Travis Minor
5 Empirical modeling of food loss in the produce sector
Timothy J. Richards and Ashok K. Mishra
Section II
6 USDA and EPA estimation methods for food loss and waste in the United States
Jean Buzby, Claudia Fabiano, and Jeanine Bentley
7 Food loss in Canada
Abdel Felfel
8 Measuring food losses at the national and subnational levels: FAO’s methodology for monitoring Sustainable Development Goals
Carola Fabi and Alicia English
9 Food loss on the farm: lessons learned from conversations with produce growers
Lisa K. Johnson and Rebecca D. Dunning
Section III
10 Tomato tales: comparing loss-reduction drivers and opportunities across U.S. fresh tomato supply chains
Gregory Baker, Linda Calvin, Anne Gillman, Lisa Kitinoja, Travis Osland, Pete Pearson, Leigh Prezkop, Brian E. Roe, Edward Spang, and Jean Baptiste Tooley
11 Case study on processing tomatoes
Brenna Ellison and Sharon Razap Skorbiansky
12 Case study on food loss in fresh potatoes
Timothy J. Richards and Ashok K. Mishra
13 Strawberries: food loss and loss prevention opportunities
Adriel S. Hsu-Flanders, Laura Gallagher, and Norbert L. W. Wilson
14 Understanding food loss in romaine lettuce
Travis Minor and Gregory Astill
15 Peaches
Claudia Hitaj
Section IV
16 Market price volatility and food loss at the farm level
Michael K. Adjemian and Mesbah Motamed
17 The evolving role of labor availability in production decisions and food loss
Steven Zahniser, Claudia Hitaj, Brandon Johnson, and Tom Hertz
18 The role of technology along the supply chain in mitigating food loss
Brenna Ellison, Travis Minor, Suzanne Thornsbury, and Greg Astill
19 Contracting and quality standards in fresh produce markets and how they impact food loss
Sharon Razap Skorbiansky, and Brenna Ellison
20 From gleaning to for-profits: efforts to mitigate food loss and feed people
Laura Gallagher, Adriel S. Hsu-Flanders, and Norbert L. W. Wilson
21 The role of policy in addressing food loss
Emily Broad Leib and Katie Sandson
22 Food loss as a wicked problem
Suzanne Thornsbury and Travis Minor
Biography
Travis Minor is Cross-Commodity Analyst for Specialty Crops in the Crops Branch of the Market and Trade Economics Division of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.
Suzanne Thornsbury is Chief of the Crops Branch in the Market and Trade Economics Division of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.
Ashok K. Mishra is Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation Chair in Food Management, Morrison School of Agribusiness, W. P. Carey School of Business, at the Arizona State University, USA.
