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Food Spoilage, Storage, and Transport: Implications for a Sustainable Future
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Human societies have always faced temporal and spatial fluctuations in food availability. The length of time that food remains edible and nutritious depends on temperature, moisture, and other factors that affect the growth rates of organisms that cause spoilage. Some storage techniques, such as drying, salting, and smoking, date back to ancient hunter–gatherer and early agricultural societies and use relatively low energy inputs. Newer technologies developed since the industrial revolution, such as canning and compressed-gas refrigeration, require much greater energy inputs. Coincident with the development of storage technologies, the transportation of food helped to overcome spatial and temporal fluctuations in productivity, culminating in today's global transport system, which delivers fresh and preserved foods worldwide. Because most contemporary humans rely on energy-intensive technologies for storing and transporting food, there are formidable challenges for feeding a growing and increasingly urbanized global population as finite supplies of fossil fuels rapidly deplete.
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“Despite food spoilage not being a significant issue in the rural areas of developing countries, people in big cities in, e.g., India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh struggle to keep food fresh because of limited access to power sources like fossil fuels [120].”
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- Authors
- Hammond, S. T., Brown, J. H., Burger, J. R., Flanagan, T. P., Fristoe, T. S., Mercado-Silva, N., Nekola, J. C., & Okie, J. G.
- Affiliations
- Oregon State University (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- BioScience
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2015-06-26
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 758-768
- ISSN
- 0006-3568 (ISSN-L)
- 1525-3244
- OpenAlex
- W2253446233
- Cited by
- 226
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 8.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BioScience (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Keywords
- food spoilage, food storage, food transport, food preservation, energy consumption, sustainability, food security, global food system, fossil fuel depletion, food preservation technology, population growth
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