IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jfpoli/v128y2024ics0306919224001362.html

Behavioural insights to reach European Union consumer food waste reduction targets

Author

Listed:
  • Bruns, Hendrik
  • De Laurentiis, Valeria
  • García Herrero, Laura
  • Listorti, Giulia

Abstract

The European Union is committed via legally binding targets to reduce per capita food waste at the retail and consumption stage. This requires realising profound behavioural change in diverse political and cultural contexts. Work of food waste experts systematically analysing implemented reduction interventions revealed important insights and gaps that need to be jointly addressed by scientists, policymakers and practitioners.

Suggested Citation

  • Bruns, Hendrik & De Laurentiis, Valeria & García Herrero, Laura & Listorti, Giulia, 2024. "Behavioural insights to reach European Union consumer food waste reduction targets," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jfpoli:v:128:y:2024:i:c:s0306919224001362
    DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102725
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919224001362
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102725?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Michael Hallsworth, 2023. "A manifesto for applying behavioural science," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 7(3), pages 310-322, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Petruzzelli, M. & Iori, E. & Ihle, R. & Vittuari, M., 2025. "Can changing the meal sequence in school canteens reduce vegetable food waste? A cluster randomized control trial," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 130(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Grinstein, Amir & Bolderdijk, Jan Willem & Risselada, Hans, 2025. "From i-level to g-level to s-level change: New methods for a new mindset for consumer researchers," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 198(C).
    2. Samuël Costa & Stuart Mills & Wouter Duyck & Nicolas Dirix, 2026. "Advancing applied behavioral science: the GAP framework," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 13(1), pages 1-12, December.
    3. Stefano Palminteri, 2025. "Human reinforcement learning processes and biases: computational characterization and possible applications to behavioral public policy," Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, Springer;Fondazione Rosselli, vol. 24(2), pages 249-273, December.
    4. World Bank & World Health Organization, 2024. "Behavioral Science Around the World Volume III," World Bank Publications - Reports 41640, The World Bank Group.
    5. Bharadwaj, Preethika & Innocenti, Stefania, 2025. "Securing Public Support for Fuel Subsidy Reform: Experimental and Policymaker Insights from Malaysia," INET Oxford Working Papers 2025-03, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford.
    6. Chlond, Bettina & Goeschl, Timo & Kesternich, Martin & Werthschulte, Madeline, 2024. "Transporting behavioral insights to low-income household: A field experiment on energy efficiency investmen," ZEW Discussion Papers 24-079, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    7. Mills, Stuart, 2024. "Deceptive choice architecture and behavioral audits: a principles‐based approach," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 122714, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    8. Antinyan, Armenak & Corazzini, Luca, 2025. "Breaking the bag habit: Testing interventions to reduce plastic bag demand," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 228(C).
    9. Florian Spitzer & Kira Abstiens & Sophie Karmasin, 2025. "Integrating behavioural insights in the policy process: on chances and hurdles identified by policy-makers and behavioural scientists," Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, Springer;Fondazione Rosselli, vol. 24(2), pages 621-663, December.
    10. Migchelbrink, Koen & Raymaekers, Pieter, 2023. "Nudging people to pay their parking fines on time. Evidence from a cluster-randomized field experiment," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    11. Carol Morris & Beth F. T. Brockett & Sara Selwood & Victoria Carr & Jilly Hall & Joelene Hughes & Bianca Ambrose-Oji, 2024. "Mainstreaming social sciences expertise in UK environment policy and practice organisations: retrospect and prospect," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-11, December.
    12. Lorko, Matej & Miklánek, Tomáš & Servátka, Maroš, 2025. "Why do some nudges work and others not?," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 235(C).
    13. S. Mills & S. Costa & C. R. Sunstein, 2023. "AI, Behavioural Science, and Consumer Welfare," Journal of Consumer Policy, Springer, vol. 46(3), pages 387-400, September.
    14. Chlond, Bettina & Goeschl, Timo & Kesternich, Martin & Werthschulte, Madeline, 2024. "Transporting behavioral insights to low-income households: A field experiment on energy efficiency investments," Working Papers 0755, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics.
    15. Bruns, Hendrik & Fillon, Adrien & Maniadis, Zacharias & Paunov, Yavor, 2025. "Comparing transparent and covert nudges: A meta-analysis calling for more diversity in nudge transparency research," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
    16. L. Lades & F. Nova, 2024. "Ethical Considerations When Using Nudges to Reduce Meat Consumption: an Analysis Through the FORGOOD Ethics Framework," Journal of Consumer Policy, Springer, vol. 47(1), pages 1-19, March.
    17. Sofía López-Rodríguez & Bartolomé Deyá-Tortella & Tomás Lejarraga, 2025. "Information is not enough to boost water savings in hotel rooms," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 12(1), pages 1-10, December.
    18. Nurit Nobel & Michael Hiscox, 2026. "Enhancing climate resilience with proximal cues in personalized climate disaster preparedness messaging," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 10(3), pages 505-513, March.
    19. Mikolajczak, Katarzyna & Gannon, Kate & Vincent, Katharine & Taing, Lina & Ingram, Will & de Bont, Chris & Damiba, Lucien & Shreedhar, Ganga & Kanyumba, Gloria & Truelove, Julie & Conway, Declan, 2025. "Behavioural research for water security: integrating design, systems thinking and social sciences," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 129046, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    20. Silvia Saccardo & Hengchen Dai & Maria A. Han & Sitaram Vangala & Juyea Hoo & Jeffrey Fujimoto, 2024. "Field testing the transferability of behavioural science knowledge on promoting vaccinations," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 8(5), pages 878-890, May.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:jfpoli:v:128:y:2024:i:c:s0306919224001362. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/foodpol .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.