Some of SLU's expertise on food wastage

Last changed: 19 March 2019

Do you have questions about food waste? Here you will find some of SLU's expertise in food waste.

Researchers at the Department of Energy and Technology

 

Ingrid Strid

Researcher at the Department of Energy and Technology
Sustainable food systems and food business from a system perspective
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Björn Vinnerås

Senior lecturer at the Department of Energy and Technology
Development of technologies to recycle plant nutrients from the city back to the agricultural fields in an efficient and safe way. I do this mainly within three research areas: hygiene technology, protein production from waste, and rediverting plant nutrients away from sewage systems.
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Evgheni Ermolaev

Researcher at the Department of Energy and Technology
Transformation systems with fly larvae to extract feed nutrients from food waste
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Mattias Eriksson

Researcher at the Department of Energy and Technology
Food waste in stores and commercial kitchens
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Cecilia Lalander

Researcher at the Department of Energy and Technology
Techniques for safe recycling of plant nutrition and various organic waste fractions, mainly with food and toilet waste. Also, maggot composting, where organic waste is converted into animal feed (flies / worms) and organic fertilizers (treatment residues).
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Christopher Malefors

PhD student at the Department of Energy and Technology 
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Researchers at the Department of Work Science, Business Economics and Environmental Psychology

 

Kostas Karantininis

Professor at the Department of Work Science, Business Economics and Environmental Psychology
Understanding consumer behavior to encourage the reduction of food waste
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Sara Spendrup

Lecturer at the Department of Work Science, Business Economics and Environmental Psychology
Consumer behavior and sustainable consumption
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Researchers at the Department of Plant Breeding

 

Marie Olsson

Professor at the Department of Plant Breeding
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Research on, for example, a nordic project for reducing food waste, several projects to quantify the food waste in the primary production, (onion, apple, carrot) and the most recent, an EIP project, concerns the use of side streams of Brassica. Publication example:
 

Emilia Berndtsson

PhD student at the Department of Plant Breeding
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Researchers at the Department of Biosystems and Technology

 

Håkan Asp

Assistant Professor at the Department of Biosystems and Technology
Research on food safety and the use of organic residues such as plant nutrients and substrates in horticulture systems (eg greenhouses)
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Researchers at the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

 

Ivar Vågsholm

Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health
How we avoid that circular food systems enhance pathogens
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Researchers at the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

 

Sofia Boqvist 

Extension specialist in food safety at the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health
Microbiological risks with circulation - How do we prevent the circulating of pathogenic microorganisms in closed recycling systems? How can organic waste be converted into animal feed without risking feed and food safety?
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Researchers at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management

 

Horacio Gonda

Researcher at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management
Feeds and feeding, with particular focus on nitrogen and energy metabolism in ruminant animals addressing issues of efficiency of utilization of nutrients and environmental impact of animal production in forage fed animals. In the challenge of reducing and making a better use of the food losses and waste, ruminants represent a good opportunity for converting food losses and waste into high quality protein products strengthen the sustainability of the food system.

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Aleksandar Vidakovic

Researcher at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management
Integrating food and feed through waste management
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