New research claims that food wastage in farm shops, agricultural cooperatives and farmers' stalls is between 1% and 2%. This is a much lower percentage than the wastage in supermarkets, where 5% to 10% of fruits and vegetables end up in the rubbish bin.
These results stem from a study by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) carried out as part of a project that aims to contribute to the creation of resilient municipalities that can cope with situations of food vulnerability such as the one generated by the pandemic.
The study compares the level of food wastage of fruits and vegetables in long distribution chain establishments (supermarkets, hypermarkets), which supply 81% of the population, with those in the short chain (farm shops, agricultural cooperatives and direct sales by farmers), which supply 19% of the population.
Source: uab.cat
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