Wasting of food and rational food management in the households of Polish and Swedish students

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Karolina Zabłocka
Aleksandra Prandota
Krystyna Rejman


Keywords : food, wastage, household, student
Abstract
Reducing food waste in the entire food supply chain is one of the key challenges to further development of the world. In developed countries the highest food wastage is observed in the final stages of the chain, mainly at the consumption stage. The aim of this study was to compare different aspects of food wastage in households of selected consumer groups i.e. students of life sciences universities in Poland and Sweden. Own questionnaire studies were conducted in the years 2014 and 2015 on a sample of 234 consumers: 132 Polish and 102 Swedish ones. Polish students more often declared behaviours proving or leading to irrational management of food. Respondents from Sweden behaved more rationally when it comes to using food surpluses and less often declared the majority of the causes of food wastage. The results indicate the necessity to publicize the issue of food waste, especially undertaking actions aiming at its reduction in the consumption processes in the households.

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Zabłocka, K., Prandota, A., & Rejman, K. (2016). Wasting of food and rational food management in the households of Polish and Swedish students. Zeszyty Naukowe SGGW - Ekonomika I Organizacja Gospodarki Żywnościowej, (114), 19–32. https://doi.org/10.22630/EIOGZ.2016.114.17
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