Food waste has become a topic of national and international concern, and an assortment of responses have developed …. Identifying the formal and informal tools available to regulate food waste is a critical step in devising adequate solutions …. Using the taxonomy developed by Lawrence Lessig, this article describes how food waste is currently being regulated through …

The OECD food waste dataset is a compilation of available data related to food loss and food waste for 32 countries …

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that in 2010-2012, 868 million people … were undernourished world-wide. At the sam time, FAO reported that approximately 1.3 billion tons of food were lost or … wasted globally in 2007, which was equivalent to approximately one-third of the food produced for human consumption at the …

This paper examines the relationship between food retail density and municipal solid waste. We test for correlations … between the volume of solid waste and the number of food-at-home retailers (e.g., grocery stores) and food …-away-from-home retailers (e.g., restaurants) at the county level in the state of Mississippi over 2007-2012. Since food scraps comprise the …

This article aims to identify antecedents of food waste among lower-middle class families – a paradox, given the … households, based on observations, in-depth interviews, photographs and a focus group (n=6). Five major categories of food waste … (5) inappropriate food conservation. Several subcategories were also found, including impulse buying, lack of planning …