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Food loss and waste: Events & Products

Food loss and waste is food that is discarded or otherwise lost uneaten. This occurs throughout the food system, during production, processing, distribution, retail and food service sales, and consumption. Overall, about one-third of the world's food is thrown away, and a huge amount of resources used in food production are wasted. A 2021 meta-analysis…

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Food loss and waste topic overview

The analysis highlights Events and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Food loss and waste.

Related topics
163
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
191
Extracted relationships
65
Related term clusters
50
Bridge connections
191

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 103 topics
Disposal · 28 topics
Definition · 14 topics
Prevention · 11 topics
Collection · 3 topics
Extent · 2 topics
Impact · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

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Overview

Definition

Sources

Extent

Impact

Prevention

Collection

Disposal

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How Food loss and waste connects Entity context

The extracted context around Food loss and waste shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Food loss and waste → American, Americans, Buzby, FAO, Food, Hall, Hyman, Natural Resources Defense Council, United States, US, USD Another extracted example is Food loss and waste → Agriculture Organization, FAO, Food, The Food, UN Agencies, United Nations, Within. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Food loss and waste

Top relations

related to Methodology · 11
Food loss and waste → American, Americans, Buzby, FAO, Food, Hall, Hyman, Natural Resources Defense Council, United States, US, USD
related to United Nations · 7
Food loss and waste → Agriculture Organization, FAO, Food, The Food, UN Agencies, United Nations, Within
has prevention · 6
Food loss and waste → According, Agriculture, FAO's The State, Food, GHG, United Nations Biodiversity Conference
related to On the environment · 6
Food loss and waste → According, Assessment Report, Empirical, GHG, IPCC, United Nations
related to Definition · 4
Food loss and waste → Definitions, Food, Professional, Terms

Important terminology

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Important terminology

food waste loss also losses united production million tonnes wasted per year consumption retail reduce produce states environmental feed estimated

Food loss and waste relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 65 structured relationships around Food loss and waste. Examples in this analysis include drinks → instance of → including things and plate waste → instance of → Food waste refers to food. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
drinksinstance ofincluding things0.80text
chewing guminstance ofincluding things0.80text
excluding things such as feedinstance ofincluding things0.80text
medicineinstance ofincluding things0.80text
cosmeticsinstance ofincluding things0.80text
tobacco productsinstance ofincluding things0.80text
and narcotic or psychotropic substances.A 2016 European Court of Auditors special report had criticised the lack of a common definition of food waste as hampering progressinstance ofincluding things0.80text
and a May 2017 resolution by the European Parliament supported a legally binding definition of food wasteinstance ofincluding things0.80text
plate wasteinstance ofFood waste refers to food0.80text
waterinstance ofand scarce resources0.80text
information sessions on storing foodinstance ofLocal governments have also implemented programs0.80text
compostinginstance ofLocal governments have also implemented programs0.80text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Food loss and waste bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Waste, Global and Loss. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Food loss and waste
    • Waste
    • Global
    • Loss
    • Agriculture
    • Million
    • Tonnes
    • Processing
    • United
    • Environmental
    • Also
    • Production
    • Wasted
  • food loss and waste
    • Waste
    • Supply
    • Global
    • United
    • Chain
    • Loss
    • Agriculture
    • Environmental
    • States
    • Million
    • Tonnes
    • Processing
  • food
    • Waste
    • Loss
    • Million
    • Tonnes
    • United
    • Environmental
    • Also
    • Production
    • Wasted
    • States
    • Reduce
    • Per
  • food system
    • Waste
    • Loss
    • Million
    • Tonnes
    • United
    • Environmental
    • Also
    • Production
    • Wasted
    • States
    • Reduce
    • Per
  • production
    • Retail
    • Supply
    • Countries
    • Chain
    • Global
    • Environmental
    • Reduce
    • Waste
    • Losses
    • Including
    • Used
    • Products
  • consumption
    • Production
    • Retail
    • Chain
    • Global
    • Processing
    • Supply
    • Losses
    • Greenhouse
    • Used
    • Loss
    • Food
    • Waste
  • united nations environment programme
    • States
    • Billion
    • Year
    • Agriculture
    • Supply
    • Environmental
    • Landfills
    • Greenhouse
    • Waste
    • According
    • Chain
    • Produce
  • food service
    • Waste
    • Loss
    • Million
    • Tonnes
    • United
    • Environmental
    • Also
    • Production
    • Wasted
    • States
    • Reduce
    • Per

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Food loss and waste, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Food loss and waste with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Food loss and waste — Overview · splits 88 ⟂ 104
Food loss and waste — Disposal · splits 163 ⟂ 29
Food loss and waste — Sources · splits 171 ⟂ 21
Food loss and waste — Definition · splits 177 ⟂ 15
Food loss and waste — Prevention · splits 180 ⟂ 12
Food loss and waste — Collection · splits 188 ⟂ 4
Food loss and waste — Extent · splits 189 ⟂ 3
Food loss and waste — Impact · splits 189 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Food loss and waste

Nodes192
Edges191
Triples65
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010417
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Food loss and waste to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Events & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Food loss and waste · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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