The present paper deals with the issue of food waste in selected European countries, in which we have tried to analyze … the socioeconomic rations. The main aim of our research was to analyze food waste quantity and compare the amount of … wasted food in European Union countries (except Cyprus due to the unavailability of food waste data). The analysis was based …

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 … households in our data, the average household wastes 31.9% of the food it buys, and this figure, using survey weights, translates …

of household food waste, a problem with high environmental impact and moral implications. Based on empirical data … drivers of wasted food in lower-middle income American families. These positive intentions provide an improved understanding …-emotions and showing affection for kids – can promote greater food waste. Other antecedents identified include multiplicity of …

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 …

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 …

(conducted before and after the survey asking about wasted food) asked about household characteristics and proxies for the …This article provides empirical evidence showing that the opportunity cost of time explains the frequency of household … food waste. We analyze three waves of a longitudinal panel survey representative of the French population. In the second …