Digital Traceability Architecture for Managing Waste in Food Supply Chains

这个博士项目旨在开发和测试一个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，每年的食物浪费估计为130亿英镑，1比制药行业还大。2例如，我们每天扔掉600万个土豆。3食物浪费与绿色房屋气体排放直接相关;事实上，食物浪费的二氧化碳排放量是食品包装废物的15倍，4尽管后者受到媒体的关注要多得多。据估计，全球食物浪费总量可以养活目前无法定期获得食物的10亿人。食品制造商将废物管理纳入其供应链的废物战略在文献中并不清楚。从供应链的角度看废物产生问题，表明废物可能发生在供应链的任何一个环节，从耕作到采购和分销，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，特别侧重于马铃薯的情况。总体而言，该项目将集中在：I.制定一种评估马铃薯-废物关系的方法二。绘制马铃薯端到端供应链图III.确定废物热点和相关的减少机会确定和探索最佳的减少废物的做法，这些做法（或可以）适用于类似的食品供应网络

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