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How Digital Business Platforms Can Reduce Food Losses and Waste?

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This research sought to understand how Digital Business Platforms (DBP) can contribute to food waste solutions by improving supply chain coordination. A qualitative approach was used, based on primary and secondary data collection. The first phase investigated 28 stakeholders to understand their coordination difficulties. The second phase analysed three case studies about food DBP. Results indicate DBP contribute to food waste solutions by improving supply chain coordination mostly through informal mechanisms, increasing collaboration between supply chain agents. They act as a bridge between production and consumption, creating a new market for food that would be discarded in many stages of the supply chain either by non-standard compliance or by the absence of a market, also creating consumer demand through awareness and subscription purchase mechanisms.

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  1. Industrial Production and Operations Administration Department, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Luciana Marques Vieira

  2. Graduate School of Business Management, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Daniele Eckert Matzembacher

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Vieira, L.M., Matzembacher, D.E. (2020). How Digital Business Platforms Can Reduce Food Losses and Waste?. In: Aktas, E., Bourlakis, M. (eds) Food Supply Chains in Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34065-0_7

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