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Avoidance of Food Waste from a Grocery Retail Store Owner’s Perspective [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 The aim of this paper is to examine the causes of food waste and potential prevention strategies from a grocery retail store owner’s perspective. We therefore conducted a case study in a German region through semi-structured expert interviews with grocery retail store owners. From the collected responses, we applied a qualitative content analysis.
Izabela Karolina Horoś +1 more
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Religious values and family upbringing as antecedents of food waste avoidance
Global Environmental Change, 2022 75
Filimonau, Viachaslau +4 more
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Foods, 2023 Due to environmental and human factors, there is a growing amount of agri-food waste worldwide. The European Commission is incentivizing a zero-waste policy by 2025, pushing to find a “second life” for at least the avoidable ones.
Filippo Bertocci, Giuseppe Mannino
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Strengthening Canada’s Food System by Reducing Food Waste
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2021 Canada’s food system has evolved under pressure to constantly produce more and do so more efficiently. However, the drive for increased productivity has also led to rising levels of food loss and waste.
Kerri Holland
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Household Food Waste—How to Avoid It? An Integrative Review [PDF]
, 2019 Behavioural change interventions directed at consumers have a great potential to reduce overall food waste levels. Van Geffen, van Herpen and van Trijp provide an overview of the literature on drivers of in-home food waste and translate them into guidelines for effective intervention development. They make a clear distinction between interventions that
van Geffen, E.J. +2 more
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Sustainability, 2022 Identifying causes of food waste at grocery retail level is crucial for the development of effective measures to reduce waste. Frontline employees manage food waste in their day-to-day operations; however, there is a paucity of research that draws attention to their knowledge of and approach to causes and measures to reduce food waste.
Lisa Mattsson, Helén Williams
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The nitrogen footprint of Swedish food consumption
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Food systems are major drivers of environmental and health impacts. While the emissions and other pressures causing these impacts mainly occur in primary agricultural production, the deeper causes and much of the mitigation potential are distributed ...
Rasmus Einarsson +3 more
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Waste of Fresh Fruits in Yaoundé, Cameroon: Challenges for Retailers and Impacts on Consumer Health
Agriculture, 2021 Post-harvest losses contribute significantly to food insecurity and affect the nutritional status and health of populations. This study estimates the waste of fresh fruits in the post-harvest chain and identifies avoidable causes along the food supply ...
A.G. Kamda Silapeux +3 more
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Restaurant food waste management strategy in Asia using the Restaurant Food Waste Map (RFWM) approach [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesBackground: Food waste is a global issue due to its serious environmental, economic, and social impacts. Objective: This research aimed to collect information regarding restaurant food waste management using the Restaurant Food Waste Map (RFWM) approach.
Fajriah Elsa +2 more
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Lost water and nitrogen resources due to EU consumer food waste
Environmental Research Letters, 2015 The European Parliament recently called for urgent measures to halve food waste in the EU, where consumers are responsible for a major part of total waste along the food supply chain.
D Vanham +4 more
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