Digital Traceability Architecture for Managing Waste in Food Supply Chains

该博士项目旨在开发和测试数字可追溯性架构框架，以促进全球食品系统中的食物浪费管理。仅在英国，每年的食物浪费就高达130亿英镑，比制药业还要多例如，我们每天扔掉六百万个土豆食物浪费与温室气体排放直接相关；事实上，食品垃圾的二氧化碳排放量是食品包装垃圾的15倍，尽管后者受到的媒体关注要多得多。据估计，全球食物浪费总量可以养活目前无法正常获得食物的10亿人。食物浪费的性质是不确定的，它的位置并不总是符合国际期望。食品制造商将废物管理纳入其供应链的废物策略在文献中并不清楚。从废物产生的供应链角度来看，废物可能发生在从农业到采购和分销的任何环节，甚至在这些阶段和储存之间的转移过程中。因此，拟议项目的第一个目标是对食品类别和废物类型之间的关系进行研究，并特别关注土豆的情况。总体而言，该项目将侧重于：1。开发一种评估马铃薯废物关系的方法。绘制马铃薯端到端供应链图识别废物热点和相关的减少机会确定和探索可（或可）应用于类似食品供应网络的最佳减少废物做法

This proposed PhD project aims to develop and test a digital traceability architectureframework to facilitate food waste management in the global food system. In the UK alone, foodwaste is estimated at £13 billion each year,1 larger than the pharmaceuticals industry.2 For example,we throw away 6 million potatos a day.3 Food waste is directly linked to green house gas emissions;in fact, food waste contributes 15 times more carbon dioxide emissions than food packaging waste,4despite the latter receiving significantly more media attention. It is also estimated the total globalfood waste could feed 1 billion people who are currently living without regular access to food.5There is uncertainty surrounding the nature of food waste, its location is not always in linewith international expectations. Waste strategies that food manufacturers adopt to incorporatewaste management into their supply chain are not clear in literature. Supply chain perspectives inwaste generation illustrate that waste can occur at any step of the chain from farming, throughprocurement and distribution, and even during transfers between these stages and storage.Therefore, the first objective of the proposed project is to conduct a study on relationships betweenfood product categories and waste types, with a specific focus on the case of potatos. Overall theproject will focus on:I. Developing an approach to assess the potato-waste nexusII. Mapping the potato end-to-end supply chainIII. Identifying waste hot-spots and related reduction oppurtunitiesIV. Identifying and exploring best waste mitigation practices which are (or could be) applied tosimilar food product supply networks