TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable use of tropical fruits? Challenges and opportunities of applying the waste-to-value concept to international value chains
AU - Aschemann-Witzel, Jessica
AU - Bizzo, Humberto Ribeiro
AU - Doria Chaves, Ana Carolina S.
AU - Faria-Machado, Adelia Ferreira
AU - Gomes Soares, Antonio
AU - de Oliveira Fonseca, Marcos José
AU - Kidmose, Ulla
AU - Rosenthal, Amauri
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Agriculture and food science literature on waste-to-value applications that allow upcycling of by-product ingredients is increasing. However, this stream of research rarely takes an international trade and sustainability systems perspective. This focused review defines the term of waste-to-value and the sustainable development goals connected to it, and points to the tensions and questions arising when international trade is involved. Further, it exemplifies the challenges and opportunities of waste-to-value in tropical fruit trade through five cases of tropical fruit from South America: Green coconut, açaí, maracujá, cambuci, and jabuticaba. We present a model of the international supply chain that indicates where the opportunities of waste-to-value applications in international tropical fruit trade are situated, and discuss which future research questions need to be addressed to tackle the challenges of waste-to-value in global tropical fruit chains. Establishing the waste-to-value approach in the export of yet-underused tropical fruits can amongst others improve local employment, preserve natural resources, allow favorable use of side-streams in local energy production, environmentally friendly packaging material for transport, and add health functionalities to the end-consumer products, but challenges have to be solved in order to ensure these environmental and social benefits materialize.
AB - Agriculture and food science literature on waste-to-value applications that allow upcycling of by-product ingredients is increasing. However, this stream of research rarely takes an international trade and sustainability systems perspective. This focused review defines the term of waste-to-value and the sustainable development goals connected to it, and points to the tensions and questions arising when international trade is involved. Further, it exemplifies the challenges and opportunities of waste-to-value in tropical fruit trade through five cases of tropical fruit from South America: Green coconut, açaí, maracujá, cambuci, and jabuticaba. We present a model of the international supply chain that indicates where the opportunities of waste-to-value applications in international tropical fruit trade are situated, and discuss which future research questions need to be addressed to tackle the challenges of waste-to-value in global tropical fruit chains. Establishing the waste-to-value approach in the export of yet-underused tropical fruits can amongst others improve local employment, preserve natural resources, allow favorable use of side-streams in local energy production, environmentally friendly packaging material for transport, and add health functionalities to the end-consumer products, but challenges have to be solved in order to ensure these environmental and social benefits materialize.
KW - international supply chain
KW - side-streams valorization
KW - Sustainability
KW - tropical fruit
KW - upcycled food
KW - waste-to-value
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112257970&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10408398.2021.1963665
DO - 10.1080/10408398.2021.1963665
M3 - Review
C2 - 34382890
AN - SCOPUS:85112257970
SN - 1040-8398
VL - 63
SP - 1339
EP - 1351
JO - Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
JF - Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
IS - 10
ER -