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This work was supported by the European Commission under Specific Contract 935680.X28 "FoodWaste@MSs".

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October 22, 2025
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Doing More With Less: Cutting Food Loss and Waste in the EU and Its Impact on Food Security

Publicated to:Sustainable Development. - 2025-10-16 (), DOI: 10.1002/sd.70273

Authors: Philippidis, George; de Jong, Beyhan; M'barek, Robert; Bartelings, Heleen

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Joint Res Ctr JRC, European Commiss, Seville, Spain - Author
Univ Zaragoza, Ctr Invest & Tecnol Agroalimentaria Aragon CITA, Dept Agrifood & Nat Resource Econ, Aragonese Agcy Res & Dev ARAID,Inst Agroalimentari, Zaragoza, Spain - Author
Wageningen Econ Res, Wageningen, Netherlands - Author
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Abstract

In September 2025, the European Parliament and Council signed the law of the Revision of the EU waste framework directive, which includes also reductions for food loss and waste (FLW). This comes at a time of concern over the EU's strategic autonomy for its agrifood sector. Taking a cradle-to-grave approach, this paper combines official FLW statistics with recent advances in simulation modelling to quantify the impacts of two FLW cuts scenarios on EU food availability, affordability, and stability. Compared with a business-as-usual baseline, average EU household per capita food budget savings and self-sufficiency of up to 192 and 0.82%, respectively, are observed, accompanied by falling average EU food production of up to 2%. With the inclusion of FLW behavioural market adjustment costs (taxes), average EU food producer price falls of up to 1% are lower than reported in previous studies, whilst in a handful of member states, consumer food prices rise marginally. This hitherto unforeseen outcome is a signal for anticipating and ensuring adequately tailored social protection schemes for the most vulnerable.

Keywords

AutosuficienciaDesperdicio de alimentosEuropean unionFood losses and wasteImpact assessmentModelos de simulaciónPolítica alimentariaSdg target 12.3Seguridad alimentariaSimulation modellingSustainable food systemsUnion europeaWaste directive

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Sustainable Development 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, 2025, it was in position 1/65, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category DEVELOPMENT STUDIES.

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 2025-11-22:

  • 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: 10 (PlumX).

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

    It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

    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: First Author (Philippidis, George) .