
Discarded food and resource depletion
- Select a language for the TTS:
- UK English Female
- UK English Male
- US English Female
- US English Male
- Australian Female
- Australian Male
- Language selected: (auto detect) - EN
Play all audios:

Food systems are driven by incentives that often lead to food being discarded before entering the market and to the degradation of natural resources. Vegetable production in the water-scarce
province of Almería, Spain, illustrates this and highlights the need for policies ensuring ethical and environmental sustainability standards. Access through your institution Buy or
subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution RELEVANT ARTICLES Open Access articles citing this article. * UBERIZING AGRICULTURE IN DRYLANDS: A FEW
ENRICHED, EVERYONE ENDANGERED * Jaime Martínez-Valderrama * , Rolando Gartzia * … Fernando T. Maestre _Water Resources Management_ Open Access 15 December 2023 * COMPLEX POLICY MIXES ARE
NEEDED TO COPE WITH AGRICULTURAL WATER DEMANDS UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE * Jaime Martínez-Valderrama * , Jorge Olcina * … Fernando T. Maestre _Water Resources Management_ Open Access 04 March
2023 ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription $29.99 / 30 days cancel any
time Learn more Subscribe to this journal Receive 12 digital issues and online access to articles $119.00 per year only $9.92 per issue Learn more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink
* Instant access to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional
subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support REFERENCES * _Global Food Losses and Food Waste: Extent, Causes and Prevention_ (FAO, 2011). * _The State of Food and Agriculture
2019: Moving Forward on Food Loss and Waste Reduction_ (FAO, 2019). * Porter, S. D., Reay, D. S., Bomberg, E. & Higgins, P. _Sci. Total Environ._ 631–632, 1544–1552 (2018). Article ADS
Google Scholar * _The CAP in Perspective: From Market Intervention to Policy Innovation_ (DG-AGRI, 2011). * Tout, D. _Geogr. J._ 156, 304–312 (1990). Article Google Scholar *
Sánchez-Picón, A., Aznar-Sánchez, J. A. & García-Latorre, J. _J. Arid Environ._ 75, 1360–1367 (2011). Article ADS Google Scholar * Downward, S. R. & Taylor, R. _J. Environ.
Manage._ 82, 277–289 (2007). Article Google Scholar * Valera, D. L., Belmonte, L. J., Molina-Aiz, F. D., López, A. & Camacho, F. _Acta Horticulturae_ 1170, (2017). * Lázaro, R.,
Rodrigo, F. S., Gutiérrez, L., Domingo, F. & Puigdefábregas, J. _J. Arid Environ._ 48, 373–395 (2001). Article ADS Google Scholar * Céspedes, A. J., García, M. C., Pérez-Parra, J. J.
& Cuadrado, I. M. _Caracterización de la Explotación Hortícola Protegida Almeriense_ (Fundación para la Investigación Agraria en la Provincia de Almería (FIAPA), 2009). * IGME &
Junta de Andalucía in _Atlas Hidrogeológico de Andalucía_ 127–149 (Junta de Andalucía, 1998). * Aznar-Sánchez, J. A. & Galdeano-Gómez, E. _Open Geogr. J._ 4, 103–114 (2011). Article
Google Scholar * _Análisis de la Campaña Hortofrutícola 2018/2019_ (Cajamar, 2020). * _The Tomato Market in the EU: Vol. 1: Production, Areas and Yields_ (European Commission, 2019). *
Swyngedouw, E. _Environ. Hist. Camb._ 20, 67–92 (2014). Article Google Scholar * _Observatorio de Precios y Mercados [Price and Market Observatory]_ (Junta de Andalucía, accessed 2
February 2020); https://go.nature.com/31m01Vq * _The Tomato Market in the EU: Vol. 3a: Trade for Fresh Products_ (European Commission, 2019); https://go.nature.com/3jLUKgd * _The Common
Agricultural Policy at a Glance_ (European Commission, accessed 4 October 2020); https://go.nature.com/2T7iTTD * Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European
Commission _Off. J. Eur. Union_ L138, 4–56 (2017); https://op.europa.eu/s/omAN * Fondo Español de Garantía Agraria (FEGA) _Informe de Retiradas en el Marco de los Programas Operativos de las
OPFH. Diciembre 2019_ (Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, accessed 15 January 2020); https://www.fega.es/es/node/51344 * _Adenda: Trabajos Necesarios para la Mejora del
Conocimiento y Protección Contra la Contaminación y el Deterioro del Estado de las Masas de Agua Subterránea de las Demarcaciones Hidrográficas Andaluzas de Carácter Intracomunitario,
Conforme a lo Establecid_ (Junta de Andalucía, 2011). * Sánchez-Martos, F., Pulido-Bosch, A., Molina-Sánchez, L. & Vallejos-Izquierdo, A. _Sci. Total Environ._ 297, 43–58 (2002). Article
ADS PubMed Google Scholar * Maas, E. V. & Hoffman, G. J. _J. Irrig. Drain. Div. Am. Soc. Civ. Eng._ 103, 115–134 (1977). Google Scholar * Lao, M. T. in _Crops: Growth, Quality and
Biotechnology_ 406–431 (WFL Publisher, 2005). * Juntti, M. & Downward, S. D. _Land Use Policy_ 66, 1–9 (2017). Article Google Scholar * _Resultados de los Escenarios Locales Cambio
Climático actualizados al 5__o_ _Informe IPCC: Evolución de los Grupos Climáticos y la Temperatura_ (Junta de Andalucía, accessed 11 March 2020); https://go.nature.com/3ojKJdQ *
Oteros-Rozas, E., Ruiz-Almeida, A., Aguado, M., González, J. A. & Rivera-Ferre, M. G. _Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA_ 116, 26465–26473 (2019). Article CAS Google Scholar * Petit, O. et
al. _Hydrogeol. J._ 25, 1549–1564 (2017). Article ADS Google Scholar * Custodio, E., Sahuquillo, A. & Albiac, J. _Sustain. Water Resour. Manag._ 5, 11–26 (2019). Article Google
Scholar * Tobi, R. C. A. et al. _Sustain._ 11, 1–22 (2019). Article Google Scholar * _Consumer Market Study on the Functioning of Voluntary Food Labelling Schemes for Consumers in the
European Union EAHC/FWC/2012 86 04_ (European Commission, 2012). * Grunert, K. G., Hieke, S. & Wills, J. _Food Policy_ 44, 177–189 (2014). Article Google Scholar * Tait, P., Saunders,
C., Guenther, M., Rutherford, P. & Miller, S. _Int. Food Res. J._ 23, 1787–1796 (2016). Google Scholar * Almeria’s growers protest low prices and poor position. _Hortidaily.com_ (8
November 2019). * _IPOD Índice de Precios en Origen y Destino de los Alimentos_ (COAG, accessed 15 September 2020); https://go.nature.com/2HfIGq4 * Martínez-Valderrama, J. et al. _Sci. Total
Environ._ 563–564, 169–178 (2016). Article ADS PubMed Google Scholar * Martínez-Valderrama, J., Guirado, E. & Maestre, F. T. _Discarded Food Resource Depletion Data_ (figshare,
2020); https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12053685 * Garcia-Caparros, P., Contreras, J. I., Baeza, R., Segura, M. L. & Lao, M. T. _Sustain._ 9, 1–21 (2017). Article Google Scholar *
Cabello, A. & Cabrera, R. _Consideraciones Sobre la Fertilización Nitrogenada en los Cultivos Hortícolas de Invernadero de Almería_ (Junta de Andalucía, Consejeria de Agricultura y
Pesca, 2003). * Reche, J. _Agua, Suelo y Fertirrigación de Cultivos Hortícolas en Invernadero_ (Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino, 2008). * Clune, S., Crossin, E. &
Verghese, K. _J. Clean. Prod._ 140, 766–783 (2017). Article CAS Google Scholar Download references ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors are funded by the European Research Council grant agreement
no. 647038 (BIODESERT). F.T.M. acknowledges support from Generalitat Valenciana (CIDEGENT/2018/041). AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio
del Medio “Ramón Margalef”, Universidad de Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain Jaime Martínez-Valderrama, Emilio Guirado & Fernando T. Maestre * Departamento de Ecología,
Universidad de Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain Fernando T. Maestre Authors * Jaime Martínez-Valderrama View author publications You can also search for this author
inPubMed Google Scholar * Emilio Guirado View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar * Fernando T. Maestre View author publications You can also
search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Correspondence to Jaime Martínez-Valderrama. ETHICS DECLARATIONS COMPETING INTERESTS The authors declare no competing
interests. RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Martínez-Valderrama, J., Guirado, E. & Maestre, F.T. Discarded food and resource
depletion. _Nat Food_ 1, 660–662 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-00186-5 Download citation * Published: 11 November 2020 * Issue Date: November 2020 * DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-00186-5 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not
currently available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative