Food Loss in Romania Comparative with the Neighbouring Countries
Keywords:
food loss, food waste, consume, productionAbstract
The article presents aspects of food loss concept in Romania and its neighboring countries, respectively Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. Food waste and food loss are worldwide phenomenon. Minimizing food losses and waste plays an important role in a world where the number of people suffering from lack of food has been steadily increasing since 2014 and where daily enormous quantities of food that is consumable are lost and wasted day-to-day. Food waste and loss are detrimental to the sustainability of our food systems. When food happens to be lost and wasted, all the resources used for creating it, including water, land, energy, work, and capital, are also lost. The main important thing to underline is that in the analyzed countries, there are different categories of food that produce most of the food loss.
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