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This work was supported by the Joint Research Centre (Seville) of the European Commission under Specific Contract 935680.X28 "FoodWaste@MSs".

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June 14, 2025
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A novel macroeconomic modelling assessment of food loss and waste in the EU: An application to the sustainable development goal of halving household food waste

Publicated to:Sustainable Production And Consumption. 45 567-581 - 2024-02-10 45(), DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2024.01.025

Authors: Bartelings, Heleen; Philippidis, George

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AgriFood Inst Aragon IA2, Ctr Agrofood Res & Technol Aragon CITA, Zaragoza, Spain - Author
Wageningen Econ Res WEcR, Wageningen, Netherlands - Author

Abstract

As part of a package of measures to alleviate pressures on our planetary boundaries, the European Union farm -tofork strategy adopts target 12.3 of the sustainable development goals, with the aim of halving food waste by 2030. A quantification of medium -term changes in food loss and waste (FLW) by both food supply chain stage and member state, as well as the cradle -to -grave market impacts from proposed reductions, requires a suitably tailored simulation model. A systems wide approach (MAGNET) with a novel characterisation of FLW behaviour is employed and linked to recent detailed Eurostat FLW estimates. In addition to business -as -usual baseline estimates of FLW to 2030, a scenario assesses the sustainability and circularity impacts from halving food waste via waste behaviour taxes. From 2020 to 2030, baseline EU average per capita FLW grows less than anticipated due to changing household consumption patterns in the newer EU member states. Similarly, by 2030 the share of food losses in total FLW appears to grow. Compared with the baseline in 2030, halving household food waste reduces EU FLW by 17.5 million tonnes. Despite the introduction of targeted food waste behaviour taxes, the average relative EU food price still falls by 2 %. In addition, lower levels of EU emissions- and land leakage are reported, whilst the reduction in bio-waste streams for fertiliser does not incur higher fossil fertiliser uptake due to falling EU crop production. Concluding, the rising projected share of food losses in the baseline signals a need for reinforced stakeholder communication and coordination strategies which are receiving less attention than consumer behaviour, hindering efficient responses to mitigate FLW. Finally, to increase the social acceptance of waste behaviour taxes and mitigate anticipated losses to EU farmers, a policy of channelling tax proceeds to supporting incomes and employment retraining schemes should be publicly visible.

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Cge simulation market modelsCircularityFood losses and wasteImpacImpact assessmenImpact assessmentIncentivesWaste treatment

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Sustainable Production And Consumption due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 9/191, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Environmental Studies. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-07-31:

  • WoS: 6
  • Scopus: 9

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-31:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 71.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 86 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Netherlands.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (Philippidis, George).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Philippidis, George.