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ON-FARM LOSS AND WASTE OF VEGETABLES: MEASUREMENT, DRIVERS, AND WELFARE IMPLICATIONS

Objective

Ourlong-termgoal in this project is to develop methods for measuring on-farm food loss and waste (FLW)and to construct a nationwide measure of on-farm loss and waste of vegetables, which is missing from existing U.S. measures of loss and waste along the farm-to-fork food supply chain. This new set of estimates will be used in this project and subsequent studies to understand the drivers behind on-farm vegetable loss and waste, and the producer and consumer welfare and environmental and nutritional implications of reducing on-farm loss and waste of vegetables.The following interconnected objectives are established for this four-year project:Objective 1:Devise a measure of on-farm vegetable loss and waste and develop empirically consistent and practicable methods to construct measurements for the United States.Objective 2:Apply newly developed methods to construct measurements of on-farm loss and waste for a comprehensive set of vegetable commodities by connecting restricted-access NASS datasets.Objective 3:Examine the impact of federal crop insurance and quality standards on crop-level vegetable loss and waste.Objective 4:Simulate welfare changes for producers and consumers under credible policy scenarios for reducing on-farm loss and waste of vegetables, and quantify the consequent changes in environmental and nutritional impacts.

Investigators
Bovay, J.
Institution
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Start date
2022
End date
2025
Project number
VA-Bovay2021
Accession number
1028073