Food Safety and Regulatory Measures

Biography

Shengkui Cheng is a Professor and Director of the Center for World Geography and Resources at the Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is also the president of China Society of Natural Resources, a board member of the International Urban Agriculture and Food Security Foundation (RUAF), and a board member of the Chinese Association of Agricultural Science Societies. He is Editor-in-Chief for Resources Science and deputy Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Natural Resources. His research activities involve mainly on agriculture ecology and sustainable resource use. In recent years, he initiated research on food waste and its environmental impacts in China. He is Principle Investigator of the Natural Sciences Foundation funded key project “Food waste in urban China: Patterns, environmental impacts, and sustainable consumption” (2013-2017). The preliminary findings have been published in the first Chinese Food Waste report, with support from Oxfam. He has close collaboration with researchers in the Europe on food waste and would like to initiate similar collaboration with US partners as well.

Abstract

Abstract : Food waste away-from-home in urban China: A field study based estimate