Closing the food loops: 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.

Agricultural wastes

Waste utilization

Food processing industry wastes

Material balance

Food additives

Författare

Jennifer R Mc Conville

Chalmers, Arkitektur, Stadsbyggnad

Jan Olof Drangert

Linköpings universitet

Pernilla Tidåker

Swedish Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (JTI)

Tina Simone Neset

Linköpings universitet

Sebastien Rauch

Chalmers, Bygg- och miljöteknik, Vatten Miljö Teknik

Ingrid Strid

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)

Karin Tonderski

Linköpings universitet

Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy

15487733 (eISSN)

Vol. 11 2 33-43

Ämneskategorier

Tvärvetenskapliga studier

Förnyelsebar bioenergi

Miljöledning

DOI

10.1080/15487733.2015.11908144

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2018-09-03