ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the ongoing challenge of reduction of food waste at three downstream interfaces and food waste impact on triple bottom line dimensions: environmental, social (including ethical) and economic. The interplay between downstream interfaces (consumers-retailers; consumers-food service businesses; consumers-households) of food supply chain and areas of food waste accumulation is discussed in the article. The findings are based on a two-step method: first, a systematic literature review of the published studies on food waste between 2008 and 2020, and second, theme development to understand food waste at the three interfaces and to develop propositions for future research. The propositions are strategic interventions to provide managerial recommendations for food waste reduction involving downstream food supply chain stakeholders. The findings highlight the conundrum of balancing conflicting stakeholder perspectives within triple bottom line dimensions to tackle food waste: economic and social dimensions of triple bottom line take priority over the environmental dimension. Testing the propositions as part of future research will help to further streamline the policy recommendations to reduce food waste at the downstream part of the supply chain.

摘要

本文重点关注在三个下游接口减少食物浪费的持续挑战，以及食物浪费对三重底线维度的影响：环境、社会（包括道德）和经济。本文讨论了食品供应链的下游接口（消费者-零售商；消费者-食品服务企业；消费者-家庭）与食品垃圾堆积区域之间的相互作用。研究结果基于两步法：首先，对 2008 年至 2020 年间已发表的关于食物浪费的研究进行系统的文献回顾，其次，主题开发以了解三个界面的食物浪费并为未来的研究提出建议。这些提议是战略干预措施，旨在为减少涉及下游食品供应链利益相关者的食品浪费提供管理建议。调查结果突出了在三重底线维度内平衡利益相关者观点冲突以解决食物浪费的难题：三重底线的经济和社会维度优先于环境维度。作为未来研究的一部分，测试这些提议将有助于进一步简化政策建议，以减少供应链下游部分的食物浪费。