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Food Waste and Power Relations in the Agri-Food Chain: The Fruit Sector in Lleida (Catalonia, Spain)

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-023-09908-8

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Studies of food waste claim that its main causes are technological and logistical deficiencies in the first stages of the agri-food chain. The present article discusses this statement using a specific case as a starting point: the production of fruit in Lleida Catalonia, Spain). Since the 1980s, fruit production in this region has undergone a process of innovation and development. However, the agents who participate in the sector claim that the wasted volume of edible foodstuffs is greater than in previous times. This article argues that studies of food waste do not consider the power relations existing within the agri-food chain. When these relations are asymmetrical, technological innovation and logistics optimisation do not improve the efficiency of the system; rather, they help the hegemonic players to monopolise the commercial margin and transfer some of their running costs to the weaker agents. The ethnographic data for the study were obtained between 2017 and 2019 using qualitative research techniques.

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Lleida (Catalunya), Antropologia de l'alimentació, Agricultura, Pagesos, Malbaratament d'aliments

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Lleida (Catalonia), Nutritional anthropology, Agriculture, Farmers, Food waste

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GASCÓN, Jordi (Gascón Gutiérrez), LARREA KILLINGER, Cristina and SOLÀ, Carlota. Food Waste and Power Relations in the Agri-Food Chain: The Fruit Sector in Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 2023. Vol. 36, num. 13. ISSN 1187-7863. [consulted: 16 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/207392

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