Food waste in time of COVID-19: The heterogeneous effects on consumer groups in Italy and the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT: Since COVID-19 outbreak, States adopted different combinations of measures to restrain its spread that affected individual behaviors and the already fragile local and global food systems. The aim of this research is to contribute to the scientific debate around food systems sustainability through the analysis of behavioral shifts in household food waste drivers, specifically occurring during the recent global pandemic. A survey was developed based on an extended version of the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability (MOA) approach. A representative sample of 3000 respondents in Italy and in the Netherlands (1500 per country) completed this survey in May 2020, while lockdown to mitigate the first wave of COVID-19 outbreak was active in both countries. A cluster analysis based on individual food-wast

SUBMITTER: Masotti M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9482092 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature