Innovative Supply Chains: Reducing Food Waste in Australia

This report examines the significant issue of food waste in Australia and explores innovative supply chain initiatives to combat it. It highlights the role of organizations like FOODBANK Australia in addressing food safety and hunger reduction. The report assesses the strengths and weaknesses of current strategies, reviews successful logistics and supply chain solutions implemented in other countries, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark and California, and recommends improvements for the Australian government, including establishing a food safety committee and promoting food safety education. The recommendations align with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 2: Zero Hunger, emphasizing the importance of retailer compliance and food safety measures. The report concludes that a focused effort on national hunger and food management is crucial for Australia.

Tackling food waste
problem in
Australia through
innovative supply
chain initiatives

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The problem of food wastage is one of the common problem faced by many countries of
the world. Most of the people of the country has waste the food due to leave the food after eat
and throw them in garbage. It is one of the biggest problem which is faced by many countries
and creates many problem. The problem of wastage are seen in heavy level in Australia. This
report is based on the condition of Australia's food wastage and hunger problem (Kshetri, 2018).
This report provides brief discussion related to the current logistics arrangement in the country
which helps top avoid the food wastage and minimise the level of hunger in the country. It also
provides a description related to the logistics supply used in other countries. It also included
various recommendations which can reduce the problem of hunger from the industry.
TASK
The country of Australia has suffered from the problem of hunger and food wastages
which is not beneficial for the country as it spread negative impact about country in international
arena. There is one of organisation are present in Australia which deals with these problems and
the name of those organisation is FOODBANK Australia. This organisation has focused on the
issues like food safety, wastages and many more (Khan and Yu, 2019). The management of this
organisation has developed different types of strategies in their organisation which are based on
awareness about the food and to work for the reduction of hunger from the country. The level of
hunger in the country are very high as they create many problem for the government of the
country. There are many people are present in the country which has ordered large amount of
food in restaurants and leave the remaining food on the table. This food are thrown in garbage by
the management of hotel. It is analysed from many market surveys that the food leave on the
table after eating can solve the major part of hunger in the country. The management of
FOODBANK has working on the idea of use the remaining food and how they used to solve the
problem of hunger. The management of the organisation has developed different types of
campaigns under which they motivate the people towards the sustainability in food management
(Lai, Sun and Ren, 2018). The problem of hunger are increased day by day which and one of the
survey shows that almost 6,25,000 people of the country has needed the food daily to fulfil their
minimum nutrition. The management of FOODBANK has some strength and weakness which is
important to understand for the purpose to make them improve.

Strengths
 The leadership and management approach of the organisation are very strong which helps
the management to fulfil all their task and projects effectively in the country.
 The volunteers has great role in the success of any national programmes in the country.
The management of FOODBANK has huge varieties of volunteers in their bag which are
always ready to work for the goodwill of country and social cause.
 The level of creativity and openness are very high in the organisation which helps the
employees to think out of the boss.
Weaknesses
 One of the weakness of the organisation is that they are not able to control the huge
number of problems having vast scope.
 Lack of proper financial resources becomes the weakness of the organisation (Kazemi,
Modak and Govindan, 2019). The problem of hunger in the country of Australia are very
high which required huge amount of funds. The covid pandemic has negative impacts on
the financial resources of the organisation as the level of donation are decreased by huge
number.
It is seen in the country that the current supply chain of the country are less effective
towards major hunger and food wastage programme in the country. The major reason for this
scenario is that the wastage of food are increased by huge level. The life of perishable products
are minimised as the demand of organic products in the market are increases day by day.
A Brief review of the logistics and supply chain solutions applied in other countries to
address
food waste problem. Here, you need to provide a review of best practices of logistics and
supply
chain solutions aimed to address food waste problem as reported in academic literature.
As the supply chain structure of Australia are not sufficient to deliver the considerable
outcomes to the country due to lack of proper strategies and resource in the country. It is very
important to analyse the supply chain structure of other countries of the world. This help to

improve the supply chain structure of Australia because of huge deviations in the current
structure of the country. This helps to develop effective judgement about the develop of supply
chain which can fulfil the demand of different stakeholders of the country. The problem food
wastage is nor only the problem of Australia as it is faced by the many countries of the world.
These countries has developed effective programmes in their countries which are effective
towards different national food problems. The country of United states has developed The food
waste reduction alliance which are beneficial for the country. The government of United
Kingdom has developed waste and resource action programme and Europe has developed
Retailer environmental action plan. The government of Denmark has put extensive focus on the
problem of food management under which they collaborate with different retailers of the
country to improve the bad habit of food wastage from the life style of their citizens. The
government of the country has taken many serious steps as they ask the retailers not to sell those
products whose date of expiry are very near future. The Danish government has organised many
school programmes under which provided of knowledge about the importance of food and
provided them training about different measures which help them to reduce food wastages. Most
of the retailers of the country has developed effective campaigns in their organisation such as
buy two and get one free (Helo and Shamsuzzoha, 2020). The management of the organisation
has try to sell those products which are getting expires after some time so that these products
cannot be waste. The management of Unilever always try to motivate their customers to
purchase those product which are near their expiry dates. The government of the country has put
more focus to add the topic of food in the syllabus of students so that the habit of food
management can be developed in the personality of students from the initial stage of their life.
The researcher of United states has confirmed that the package of mant foods are made
up of petroleum and other harmful substance which degrade the food stores and the problem of
food wastages are promoted. It is very important for the government that they motivate and
ordered the business organisations that the packages of the product are developed in such a way
to reduce the wastages of food in the country. It is very important for the management of the
organisations that they used advanced technology in the packaging of the foods which also
maintained their freshness. One of the California company named Bluwrap has used advanced
technology of packaging which is called atmosphere to monitor the level of temperature. This

technology helps the company to maintained the level of protein as well as other nutrients in the
transportation from one place to another.
The oligopoly market of Malawi has motivated their farmers to sell all their harvest at any cost
because of lack of stored and warehouses. It helps to crop from waste and also the farmer get the
income for their life activities. The level of food wastages due to the lack of proper ware housing
are very which required modern solutions from the different stakeholders of the country.
Recommendation to government of Austria for the reduction of food wastages from the
country.
There are different types of recommendations are present which can help the government
to deal with the problem of food wastage in the country and the brief discussion related to the
same are given below:
 It is recommended to the government of Australia that thy developed effective food
safety committee in their country which controls and monitors the retailers of the country.
It is very important for the government that they motivate retailers to choose those
measures in business which promotes food safety.
 It is recommender to the government that they focuses on educating the students towards
the safety of the foods in the country.
Explain what SDG goals could be addressed through your recommendations.
There are different types of goals are developed by United nation to achieve
sustainability in world and the above recommendations has satisfied two goals of the United
nations and the brief discussion related to the same are given below:
The first recommendation helps to fulfil the Goals-2 of United Nations which is related to
the zero hunger in the world. When the retailers of the country to use those measures which is
ordered by the government then the level of hunger can be minimise (Copacino, 2019).
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from this report that it is very important for the government of Australia to
focus on national hunger and also on food management. This report concludes brief discussion
related to the current logistics arrangement in the country which helps top avoid the food
wastage and minimise the level of hunger in the country. It also concludes a description related
to the logistics supply used in other countries. It also conclude various recommendations which
can reduce the problem of hunger from the industry.

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