This chapter presents the research rationale underpinning the book. It addresses the intertwining challenges of food security and surplus food management, discussing recent data and literature. It also presents how social innovation is conceptualized in the book as the theoretical framework to analyse partnerships between business and nonprofit organisations in managing food surplus. The methodology of the research is also detailed, along with the book structure.

Baglioni, S., Calò, F., Garrone, P., Molteni, M. M., Introduction—Food Security and Food Waste Reduction: A Social Innovation Approach to Current Social, Environmental, and Political Concerns, in Simone Baglioni · Francesca Calòpaola Garrone · Mario Molten, S. B. ·. F. C. G. ·. M. M. (ed.), Foodsaving in Europe.At the Crossroad of Social Innovation, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2017: 1- 12. 10.1007/978-3-319-56555-2 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/116265]

Introduction—Food Security and Food Waste Reduction: A Social Innovation Approach to Current Social, Environmental, and Political Concerns

Molteni, Mario Marco
2017

Abstract

This chapter presents the research rationale underpinning the book. It addresses the intertwining challenges of food security and surplus food management, discussing recent data and literature. It also presents how social innovation is conceptualized in the book as the theoretical framework to analyse partnerships between business and nonprofit organisations in managing food surplus. The methodology of the research is also detailed, along with the book structure.
2017
Inglese
Foodsaving in Europe. At the Crossroad of Social Innovation
978-3-319-56554-5
Palgrave Macmillan
Baglioni, S., Calò, F., Garrone, P., Molteni, M. M., Introduction—Food Security and Food Waste Reduction: A Social Innovation Approach to Current Social, Environmental, and Political Concerns, in Simone Baglioni · Francesca Calòpaola Garrone · Mario Molten, S. B. ·. F. C. G. ·. M. M. (ed.), Foodsaving in Europe.At the Crossroad of Social Innovation, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2017: 1- 12. 10.1007/978-3-319-56555-2 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/116265]
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