Supply and Demand Matching Using Data on Generation and Utilization Potential of Food Loss from business sectors

Abstract

This study focused on business-related food loss, which accounts for more than half of the domestic food loss. We collected the weight of food loss at supplier and the weight of food use at welfare-related facility assumed to be the possible recipients of food losses and clarified actual condition.

In addition, the median and confidence interval of the ratio of supply and demand matching (matching rate) were estimated by bootstrap method using daily data of the amount of food generated and used by each food type. The purpose of this study was to obtain basic information that would contribute to policy prioritization and systematic promotion of the reduction and utilization of business-related food loss in Okayama Prefecture by examining the matching of food loss