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Food Redistribution in the Nordic Region
This report has a focus on waste prevention through redistribution of food to low-income people via charity organisations. Food redistribution can go via national food banks and via direct redistribution, often on a local level. Food banks redistributed about 1,5 mill meals in 2013, and local charity organisations probably 2–3 times more. The regulatory framework for food redistribution is described and discussed. The demand of and potential for redistribution is probably much higher than at present, and the reports points out strategies and measures for how food banks can contribute to secure and further develop. The report is part of the Nordic Prime Ministers’ overall green growth initiative: “The Nordic Region – leading in green growth” – read more in the web magazine “Green Growth the Nordic Way.”
Food losses and waste in primary production
This report presents the results from six case studies of food losses and waste in primary production in the Nordic region. The product groups studied were carrots, onions, cereal (wheat or rye), green peas, field peas, and cultivated fish (rainbow trout or char). We used different methods to study the side flows: questionnaires, in-field measurements and interviews. Instead of the term “food losses and waste” we use the term “side flows”. The side flow ranged from 4 % to 31 % for vegetables, cereals and pulses and most of the side flow for occurs after harvest, e.g. when sorting and storing the products. The main reason for side flow is quality issues. Weather conditions and diseases have a major impact on the quality of the products. We cannot draw many conclusions on side flow amounts for fish based on the results. The reasons for fish side flow are mainly diseases and predators.
Food losses and waste in primary production
This project has resulted in a suggested definitional and methodological framework for future food waste studies in primary production. It has also resulted in a first attempt to quantify food waste in primary production in the Nordic countries. The project was focused on primary production in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. One purpose has been to test adequate methods for collecting data on food losses and waste from primary producers in the Nordic countries. Another purpose was to estimate the amount of food losses and waste in primary production in the Nordic Countries. In order to collect data and quantify food losses and waste in primary production it was necessary to work on these definitions or possibly introduce new, more useful terms. Thus this project involved defining terms, developing methodologies and quantifying data.
Kartläggning av matsvinnet i primärproduktionen
Mat slängs i alla delar av livsmedelskedjan. Det finns statistik på hur mycket som kastas i flera led av kedjan men för primärproduktionen, alltså jordbrukarnas verksamhet, saknas tillförlitliga siffror på hur stort svinnet är. I ett projekt med representanter från Danmark, Finland, Norge och Sverige har vi försökt kartlägga svinnet i fem vanliga produktgrupper: Mjölk, griskött, morötter, lök och potatis. Resultaten visar att en stor mängd mat går förlorad redan i primärproduktionen. Svinnet av mjölk och griskött har störst konsekvenser för producenternas ekonomi, mängden tillgänglig odlingsmark och klimatet även om svinnet i produktionen procentuellt sett är högre för morötter, lök och potatis. Konsumenternas krav kan ge upphov till svinn även i primärproduktionen särskilt för frukt och grönsaker.
Voluntary Agreements and Environmental Labelling in the Nordic Countries
Rapporten præsenterer et studie af brugen af frivillige aftaler og forekomsten af miljømærker i de nordiske lande, inklusiv brugen af instrumenterne i et policy mix med andre policy værktøjer. Grundlaget for rapporten er fem landestudier, der hver især kortlægger brugen af de nævnte policy værktøjer i de fem nordiske lande og præsenterer identificerede evalueringer af konkrete frivillige aftaler og miljømærkeordninger. Fra evalueringerne uddrages konklusioner om omkostningseffektivitet samt gode og dårlige eksempler på anvendelse af frivillige aftaler og miljømærkeordninger i kombination med andre styringsmidler. Det primære formål er at udvikle anbefalinger, der kan understøtte og give input til justeringer af strategier for den fremtidige anvendelse af frivillige aftaler og miljømærker i de nordiske landes miljøregulering. Rapporten er udført af Plan Miljø og finansieret af Nordisk Ministerråd.
Life Cycle Assessment Handbook
The first book of its kind, the Life Cycle Assessment Handbook: A Guide for Environmentally Sustainable Products will become an invaluable resource for environmentally progressive manufacturers and suppliers, product and process designers, executives and managers, and government officials who want to learn about this essential component of environmental sustainability. As the last several decades have seen a dramatic rise in the application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in decision making, the interest in the life cycle concept as an environmental management and sustainability tool continues to grow. The LCA Handbook offers a look at the role that life cycle information, in the hands of com...
The Rhetorical Construction of Vegetarianism
This book explores themes in the rhetoric of vegetarian discourse. A vegan practice may help mitigate crises such as climate change, global health challenges, and sharpening socioeconomic disparities, by ensuring both fairness in the treatment of animals and food justice for marginalized populations. How the message is spread is crucial for these aims. Vegan practices thus uncover tensions between individual dietary choices and social justice activism, between ego and eco, between human and animal, between capitalism and environmentalism, and within the larger universe of theoretical and practical ethics. The chapters apply rhetorical methodologies to understand vegan/vegetarian discourse, e...
Grønnere familie
Svarene på hvordan du og familien din kan leve mest mulig miljøvennlig i hverdagen. Det er en jungel av motstridende klimaråd der ute. Noen mener vi bør kjøpe emballasjefri mat i løsvekt, andre mener plastinnpakkede varer likevel er best, fordi maten holder seg lenger og vi unngår svinn. Hvilke tiltak er det som faktisk har noen effekt? Og hvordan kan vi som enkeltpersoner og husholdninger leve mest mulig klima- og miljøvennlig i hverdagen? Trebarnsmor og journalist Marie Kleve har gått systematisk til verks for å gjøre familien sin grønnere, og gir oss ekspertenes fasit på hva som virker og hvordan vi enklest mulig kan få en mer bærekraftig livsstil.
Advances in Meat, Poultry and Seafood Packaging
Packaging plays an essential role in limiting undesired microbial growth and sensory deterioration. Advances in meat, poultry and seafood packaging provides a comprehensive review of both current and emerging technologies for the effective packaging of muscle foods. Part one provides a comprehensive overview of key issues concerning the safety and quality of packaged meat, poultry and seafood. Part two goes on to investigate developments in vacuum and modified atmosphere packaging for both fresh and processed muscle foods, including advances in bulk packaging and soluble carbon dioxide use. Other packaging methods are the focus of part three, with the packaging of processed, frozen, ready-to...
