Production-phase greenhouse gas emissions arising from deliberate withdrawal and destruction of fresh fruit and vegetables under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy
| Autor: | Elizabeth Bomberg, David S. Reay, Stephen D. Porter, Peter Higgins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Environmental Engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Climate Change 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Agricultural economics Food Supply Nutrition Policy Greenhouse Gases Vegetables Market price Environmental Chemistry media_common.cataloged_instance European Union European union Waste Management and Disposal 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Air Pollutants business.industry Subsidy Agriculture Single market Pollution Food waste Greenhouse gas Fruit Business Common Agricultural Policy Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Porter, S, Reay, D, Bomberg, E & Higgins, P 2018, ' Production-phase greenhouse gas emissions arising from deliberate withdrawal and destruction of fresh fruit and vegetables under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy ', Science of the Total Environment . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.089 |
| ISSN: | 1879-1026 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.089 |
| Popis: | Since 1962 the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) has enabled payment of subsidy to some food producers for withdrawal of specific commodities – including fresh fruit and vegetables (FFV) – where market prices have fallen below a pre-set level. These deliberate withdrawals have led to large amounts of usable food (~60% of withdrawals) being destroyed on farms across the EU. Such wasted food incurs a significant climate change cost through its production-phase greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Here, we assess the magnitude of this FFV withdrawal and destruction, its spatial and temporal trends, and its associated GHG emissions between 1989 and 2015. We find the total mass of avoidable FFV losses occurring as a result of these EU CAP market interventions for this 26-year period to be 23.6 Mt. The production-phase GHG emissions associated with the withdrawn FFV that was subsequently destroyed amount to 5.1 Mt CO2e over this period. We also find that, with each successive Common Market Organisation (CMO) reform there has been a marked reduction (~95% between 1989 and 2015) in the quantity of such deliberate withdrawals. Surprisingly, however, whilst the absolute quantity of FFV withdrawn and destroyed has fallen, the proportion of withdrawals that is destroyed remained roughly static at an average of about 60%. Finally, to inform debate on action needed to address FFV specifically, and food loss and waste more generally, we highlight potential scenarios and mechanisms to reduce withdrawals, avoid FFV destruction and improve alternative use of withdrawn food in the future. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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