Food Waste & Sustainability Through A Lens of Bibliometric Review: A Step Towards Achieving SDG 2030

The United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by keeping the 2030 agenda for Sustainable development to transform our world that including alleviating poverty, economy, society, energy conservation, sustainable production and consumption (food waste mitigation – SDG 12.3), and the environment (climate action –SDG 13) and many more with a mission to achieve a more sustainable future for the world by 2030. Food waste (SDG12.3) is becoming an economic burden on any country and directly or indirectly creates a barrier to achieving SDG 13. In the present study, with VOSviewer software's help, the growing issue of food waste and sustainability has been studied through the Scopus database (used for data collection). This study helps find the publication trend, analysis of author keywords, countries actively participated, and identify of most-cited publications and journal that published those articles on food waste and sustainability. A study of data collected from the Scopus database explored that before the SDG 2030 agenda, there were only 135 publications in this area. Still, there has been a rapid increase in publications after its formulation. "Food waste," "Anaerobic Digestion," "Environment," "LCA," and "Sustainability" was found as the maximum used author keywords. Countries like The United States, China, the United Kingdom, Italy, and India are top contributors to a march to achieve the SDGs 12.3 and 13. Scientific journals contribute more in this regard than social science journals. The study's limitations are that most of the publications are science-oriented and widely used the technical words used in chemistry and biology; therefore, it becomes a tedious task for a social science researcher to interpret the outcome in terms of social science.