7. What Can Different Actors in the Value Chain Do?

Breaking Barriers: Empowering Effective Food Waste Solutions in the Nordic Countries

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1. Recommendations 2. Introduction 3. Guiding Principles 4. What Drives Food Waste? 4.1 Economic causes 4.2 Lack of knowledge 4.3 Lack of cooperation between stages 4.4 The view on packaging 4.5 Regulations as barriers 5. The Art of Measuring and Evaluating 5.1 Why measure? 5.2 What is thrown away – and how much? 5.3 How to understand why food is thrown away 5.4 Measuring the effectiveness of measures 6. What Can Authorities and Public Decision-makers Do? 6.1 Background 6.2 Policies for reduced food waste Copy of 7. What Can Different Actors in the Value Chain Do? 7.1 Primary production 7.2 Food Producers 7.3 Wholesalers and transport 7.4 Retail 7.5 Restaurants 7.6 Public Meals 7.7 Households 8. Information Gathering 8.1 Literature review 8.2 Reports and case studies 8.3 Interviews 9. Concluding Remarks Appendix 1 Appendix 2 22

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