The present interview study, with consumers living in Washington state, USA, set out to explore consumers' perceptions … are guided by subjective perceptions of food quality, as well as concerns driven by personal values and ethical and … environmental considerations. Food safety was found to be confusing for almost all of the consumers in this study, with many …

Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data … on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household …-level food waste via a stochastic production frontier model in which food waste is identified as input inefficiency. For …

This paper uses a structural model of household food waste to discuss how the jointness of meal production, consumption …, and time allocation decisions, are important in understanding potential drivers of household food waste. We discuss how … empiricists can utilize the model for empirical applications. We apply one such application to household-level data of food stock …

We provide causal evidence on how date marking policies influence consumers' valuation of perishable food products … through three consecutive research steps. In a preparatory in-store survey (n = 100), we identify perishable food items that … price list (MPL) experiment (n = 200) then tests consumers' valuation of perishable food of varying shelf-life (expiry date …

Food and eating habits, together with adjacent agricultural activities have had and an important role in the … development of modern society and the individual itself. Besides its nutritional role, food has become a main socio …-cultural determinant, food consumption patterns being influenced, on one hand, by psycho-sensory and quality characteristics of the food …

What is the role of government policies in encouraging healthier food choices to fight the current overweight and … and proposes a four-track policy approach to encourage healthier food choices that is consistent with wider objectives for … the food and agriculture sector. This policy approach includes demand side public interventions, voluntary collaboration …

Digital tools and technologies can assist governments to improve consumer health and the sustainability of food systems … farming practices, as well as to reduce asymmetries of food labelling schemes. They also contribute to more effective food …

This paper investigates household food waste in the context of inefficient food production. Food waste is typically … defined as the proportion of edible food that goes unconsumed, whereas inefficiency is measured by a household's inability to … reach some technically efficient production frontier. Because food waste can be avoided through improved efficiency, we …

This article constructs a theoretical model of rational food waste and analyzes how an extension of a food product …'s sell-by date affect a household's decisions of purchase volume and food waste. We then use the elimination of New York City … effectively reduces food waste and improves consumer welfare. Our results suggest that the new policy reduces purchase volume by …

This study uses an experimental vignette methodology to investigate and compare, for the first time, consumer food …