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Are households feeding habits and waste management practices determinant in order to swing over food waste behaviours? The case of Barcelona Metropolitan Area

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  • Raquel, Diaz-Ruiz
  • Costa-Font, Gil
  • Costa-Font, Montserrat
  • Maria, Jose

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Understanding the perception about food waste generation is crucial to significantly reduce the amount generated by 2020 as proposed in the conference Rio+20. To date consumer´s feeding habits and waste management practices are not in depth consid-ered in the literature. The aim of the present work is to analyse citizen’s perception towards food waste and understand how citizens form their food waste behaviour de-cisions. A theoretical model has been elaborated based on literature. A questionnaire on food waste was analysed by means of structural equation models. Results show that food waste is directly influenced by purchasing habits as diet selection and pur-chasing behaviour, as well as waste prevention behaviour and indirectly influenced by materialism and environmentalism values.

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  • Raquel, Diaz-Ruiz & Costa-Font, Gil & Costa-Font, Montserrat & Maria, Jose, 2015. "Are households feeding habits and waste management practices determinant in order to swing over food waste behaviours? The case of Barcelona Metropolitan Area," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 211573, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:iaae15:211573
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.211573
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