Closing the food loop – guidelines and criteria for improving nutrient management
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2015

As global consumption expands, the world is increasingly facing threats to resource availability and food security. To meet future food demands, agricultural resource efficiency needs to be optimized for both water and nutrients. Policy makers should start to radically rethink nutrient management across the entire food chain. Closing the food loop by recycling nutrients in food waste and excreta is an important way of limiting the use of mineral nutrients, as well as improving national and global food security. This article presents a framework for sustainable nutrient management and discusses the responsibility of four key stakeholder groups—agriculture, the food industry, consumers, and waste management—for achieving an effective food loop. In particular, we suggest a number of criteria, policy actions, and supporting strategies based on a cross-sectoral application of the waste hierarchy.

material balance

waste utilization

Food processing industry wastes

food additives

agricultural wastes

Författare

Jennifer R Mc Conville

Chalmers, Arkitektur

Pernilla Tidåker

Jan-Olof Drangert

Tina-Simone Neset

Sebastien Rauch

Chalmers, Bygg- och miljöteknik, Vatten Miljö Teknik

Ingrid Strid

Karin Tonderski

Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy

15487733 (eISSN)

Vol. 11 2

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Building Futures (2010-2018)

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Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap

Vattenteknik

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2017-10-07