Abstract
One of the global economic challenges of our time on the path to sustainable development is the fight against food losses and spoilage along the entire path of product movement from production to the final consumer. The negative effect of this economic phenomenon is the enormous environmental damage caused by waste and its disposal to nature. Solving the problem of food spoilage and loss will help to reduce poverty, develop the ideas of rational consumption, reduce environmental risks and eliminate hunger. Foodsharing as a system of redistribution of surplus food can be considered as an effective tool to reduce food losses and spoilage. It is also one of the manifestations of the increasingly popular economy of shared consumption. The article is devoted to the study of various aspects of food-sharing: socio-economic, legal, and environmental. The definition of foodsharing is given and its classification is carried out. The experience of the practice of food-sharing in foreign countries has shown its effectiveness in solving the problems of providing affordable food to socially vulnerable segments of the population, as well as in combating food losses and spoilage. At the same time, in Russia, food-sharing is just beginning to develop and is experiencing difficulties in growth. The reason for this is the lack of the necessary infrastructure, and the presence of regulatory barriers. The quality and safety of the food distributed should be an undoubted priority of the legal regulation of food sharing, but the restrictions imposed by the state are often excessive in the conditions of food insecurity of certain socially vulnerable segments of the population. We are talking about products with an expiring, but not expired, expiration date, as well as sanctioned goods.
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