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Title: MARK IT: ANALYZING WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ACROSS FOOD RETAILERS IN INDIA
Authors: Anya Goyal
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Anya Goyal Step By Step School, Noida
MLA 8 Goyal, Anya. "MARK IT: ANALYZING WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ACROSS FOOD RETAILERS IN INDIA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 5, no. 7, July 2020, pp. 2044-2050, ijsser.org/more2020.php?id=143. Accessed July 2020. APA 6 Goyal, A. (2020, July). MARK IT: ANALYZING WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ACROSS FOOD RETAILERS IN INDIA. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 5(7), 2044-2050. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2020.php?id=143 Chicago Goyal, Anya. "MARK IT: ANALYZING WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ACROSS FOOD RETAILERS IN INDIA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 5, no. 7 (July 2020), 2044-2050. Accessed July, 2020. ijsser.org/more2020.php?id=143.
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Abstract: India has experienced high rates of economic development in the past few decades that have made it one of the leading food producers in the world. However, India continues to have the highest number of malnourished people in the world, with malnourishment and food insecurity impacting many sections of the Indian population. This paper has explored the impacts of this nutrition crisis in India and found that it not only hampers the health and economic productivity of individuals but hampers the economic development of the country in the long run. There has been a rapid increase in the number of supermarkets in urban India, which have given rise to supply and consumption behavior that leads to high levels of wastage of food that continues to be edible. This paper has explored the extent of food wastage during retail in India and its impact on food security, environmental degradation, and economic productivity. It has been found that the prevention of food wastage at the retail level is one of the key aspects in solving the nutrition crisis in India, despite it being ignored in subsequent state policies. Lastly, this paper has sought to provide policy recommendations surrounding the development of cold storage systems and the creation of partnerships with non-profit initiatives that seek to enable supermarkets and local governments to redirect discarded food to communities that suffer the most from acute malnutrition.

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