Governance for Food Waste Reduction
Governance for Food Waste Reduction

Author(s): Dimitar Terziev, Toni Mihova
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Economy, Business Economy / Management, Energy and Environmental Studies, Governance
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: food waste; governance; startup
Summary/Abstract: The waste of already produced food is one of the obvious and disquieting characteristics of modern society. The numbers are truly staggering. The FAO estimates that the world’s annual food losses are over one billion tons (nearly 20% of global food production). At the same time, about 783 million people in the world suffer from chronic hunger. And that’s not all. UNEP research shows that food production, transportation and disposal are responsible for 8–10% of global greenhouse gas emissions annually. The problem came in scene in the last few decades. Big is the number of various initiatives to change positively this picture. Many of them are not effective despite of huge invested money (mainly public). The reason is not in the lack of efficiency in such activities. Although few in number, successful projects in this area prove that achieving economic efficiency is possible. The wrong choice of governance mode is the real cause of numerous failures. The goal of our study is to analyze how appropriate are the known governance modes in the case of food waste. It is a comparative study, conducted by application of institutional approach – Discrete Structural Analysis. We do believe this study could contribute in both theoretical (governance analysis) and practical (development of successful projects) respect.

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