Review: Consumption-stage food waste reduction interventions – What works and how to design better interventions

Food waste prevention has become an issue of international concern, with Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 aiming to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels by 2030. However there is no review that has considered the effectiveness of interventions aimed at preventing food waste in the consumption stages of the food system. This significant gap, if filled, could help support those working to reduce food waste in the developed world, providing knowledge of what interventions are specifically effective at preventing food waste. This paper fills this gap, identifying and summarizing food-waste prevention interventions at the consumption/consumer stage of the supply chain via a rapid…

• SF
  Stiftelsen för Miljöstrategisk Forskning
• SR
  Sight Research UK

  Award: NE/R007160/1
• NE
  Natural Environment Research Council

  Awards: NE/R007160/1, NE/R007160/1