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Journal of Biotechnology and Phytochemistry| Volume: 2
October 25-26, 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
Joint Event
Biotechnology & Medical Microbiology
World Congress on 3 rd International Conference on
Food Science & Technology
Zero waste sustainable food systems: Scenarios for the cities of the future
Stéphane Guilbert
Montpellier SupAgro, France
Wastes at household level constitute 53% of total losses
in EU and 60% in the USA. It is clear that that people
living in towns and large cities tend to produce more waste.
Prevention of food losses and bio-waste valorization are quite
inefficiently managed. Urban bio-waste, despite their high
nutriment value, are marginally recycled and returned to farm
soil and therefore, does not contribute to closing bio-geo-
chemical cycles and to supporting sustainable food production.
A foresight approach was used to i) identify high potential
socio-technological innovations in food waste prevention and
valorization and ii) extract research questions contributing to
fostering and accompanying cities’ breakthrough strategies
towards zero waste sustainable food systems, specific to
different urban settings worldwide. The exploration of three
“food systems scenarios” in the context of “three urban
scenarios” allows to highlight requirements and questions for
the research which were grouped into five broad categories
related to issues or types of impacts expected: i) society,
ii) industries, food cycles and systems, iii) health and the
environment (animal health, health public, safety and nutrition,
environment), iv) technological processes, looping cycles and
associated business models and finally v) the information
and communications technologies (ICT), data processing and
applied mathematics. High potential key measures and generic
questions and perspectives for research on the link between
cities and Zero waste sustainable food systems are discussed.
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