Alaoui, K.Rbaa, M.Kacimi, Y. ElTüzün, B.Berdimurodov, E.2024-10-262024-10-2620242524-5384https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1160-4_6https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12418/26279Sustainable food management system’s needs, good food resources governance, food losses, and avoiding waste as much as possible. Although the advanced tools, equipments, and technologies available today, 30% of food produced for human being consumption is wasted, causing gigantic environmental troubles, economic loss, and food uncertainty issues. These occurrences and elevated volumes of food industry wastes attract several social, political, and scientific attention. Growing interest of social, political, and scientific has recently been focused on waste management, product valorization, and improve food waste and furthermore food security. Thus, the aim of this section is to analyze the current status, emerging challenges, and prospects of food wastes, waste management, and their effects on sustainability of food production are presented and discussed. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.en10.1007/978-981-97-1160-4_6info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessFood industry; Food waste and waste management; Product valorization; Reduction of food waste; Sustainability of food productionBook ChapterPart F25011121072-s2.0-85191518552N/A