Reducing Household Food Waste: Drivers and Interventions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Waste and Recycling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 August 2024 | Viewed by 1430
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Household food waste is an environmentally, socially, and economically urgent problem increasing greenhouse gas production, food insecurity, and food price inflation. In developed countries, it contributes to food waste more than the other stakeholders in the food chain. Research on the determinants of household food waste suggest various drivers that are interrelated and competing. Some of these drivers include attitudes, social norms, motivations, and socio-demographics. There are also food management behaviours, also called levers of behaviour change, that include planning, shopping, storing, cooking and leftover reusing. In the literature, the drivers and levers of food waste have been identified by applying different frameworks such as Theory of Planned Behaviour and Motivation Opportunity Ability Model. The drivers and levers are employed to design behaviour change interventions. Some of the interventions for behaviour change are awareness raising campaigns, nudging, and training and knowledge enhancement activities. However, the effectiveness of most of these interventions is not evidence-based. In conclusion, to reduce household food waste, it is vital to determine significant drivers and levers of change and design effective interventions.
Hence, this Special Issue encourages submissions about the promising drivers, food management behaviours and behaviour change interventions that would benefit the research community, businesses, and practitioner organisations. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Drivers of household food waste such as attitudes, emotions, social norms, perceived control, and socio-demographics. Submissions on the role of goals and values in reducing food waste and novel drivers are particularly encouraged.
- Levers of food waste management behaviours such as planning, shopping, storing, cooking and leftover reusing.
- Theoretical frameworks that are employed to identify levers and drivers.
- Behaviour change interventions such as prompts and tools for households, coaching for households, local awareness campaigns, national awareness campaigns.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Gülbanu Kaptan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food waste
- consumer
- household
- behaviour change
- food management behaviours
- drivers of food waste
