European Approach for Reducing Consumer Food Waste; Putting Insights in Practice

A.J.M. Timmermans; Stephanie Wunder; H.W.I. van Herpen

European Approach for Reducing Consumer Food Waste; Putting Insights in Practice

A.J.M. Timmermans^*, Stephanie Wunder, H.W.I. van Herpen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

1. Enacting policy to drive food waste reduction
With an estimated contribution of 53%, the consumer is the primary
contributor to food waste across the food chain in higher income countries (Stenmarck et al. 2016). Considering that a large amount of this waste
could be avoided, the urgent need to change consumer behaviour is evident. Reducing consumer food waste and policy interventions to support
this effort is therefore a key area of the EU project REFRESH, within
which this report was developed. Reducing food loss and waste can help
meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, contribute
to the Paris Agreement on climate change, and sustainably feed the planet
by 2050. A Global Action Agenda was composed by a group of global experts in 2019 to help reduce food loss and waste and achieve SDG 12.3. This
action agenda included 10 “scaling interventions” designed to take the approach and to-do list to scale (Flanagan, 2019). A follow-up report explores
these 10 “scaling interventions”, one being to shift social norms (Hanson,
2019). Leveraging the latest findings of behavioral science, the report engages grassroots campaigns, social media, religious communities, and others to
make “wasting food” as unacceptable as littering now is in many countries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reduction of Food Loss and Waste
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of a Conference held atCasina Pio IV, Vatican City, November 11-12, 2019
Editors	J. von Braun, M. Sánchez Sorondo, R. Steiner
Place of Publication	Vatican City
Pages	62-70
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	Reduction of Food Loss and Waste \| A Cooperation between the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and The Rockefeller Foundation - Casina Pio IV, V, Vatican City, Italy Duration: 11 Nov 2019 → 12 Nov 2019 http://www.pas.va/content/dam/accademia/pdf/pas_sv147.pdf

Publication series

Name	Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia
Volume	147

Conference

Conference	Reduction of Food Loss and Waste \| A Cooperation between the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and The Rockefeller Foundation
Country	Italy
City	Vatican City
Period	11/11/19 → 12/11/19
Internet address	http://www.pas.va/content/dam/accademia/pdf/pas_sv147.pdf

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Timmermans, A. J. M., Wunder, S., & van Herpen, H. W. I. (2020). European Approach for Reducing Consumer Food Waste; Putting Insights in Practice. In J. von Braun, M. Sánchez Sorondo, & R. Steiner (Eds.), Reduction of Food Loss and Waste: Proceedings of a Conference held atCasina Pio IV, Vatican City, November 11-12, 2019 (pp. 62-70). (Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia; Vol. 147).. http://www.pas.va/content/dam/accademia/pdf/pas_sv147.pdf#page=63

Timmermans, A.J.M. ; Wunder, Stephanie ; van Herpen, H.W.I. / European Approach for Reducing Consumer Food Waste; Putting Insights in Practice. Reduction of Food Loss and Waste: Proceedings of a Conference held atCasina Pio IV, Vatican City, November 11-12, 2019. editor / J. von Braun ; M. Sánchez Sorondo ; R. Steiner. Vatican City, 2020. pp. 62-70 (Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia).

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Timmermans, AJM, Wunder, S & van Herpen, HWI 2020, European Approach for Reducing Consumer Food Waste; Putting Insights in Practice. in J von Braun, M Sánchez Sorondo & R Steiner (eds), Reduction of Food Loss and Waste: Proceedings of a Conference held atCasina Pio IV, Vatican City, November 11-12, 2019. Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia, vol. 147, Vatican City, pp. 62-70, Reduction of Food Loss and Waste | A Cooperation between the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and The Rockefeller Foundation , Vatican City, Italy, 11/11/19. <http://www.pas.va/content/dam/accademia/pdf/pas_sv147.pdf#page=63>

European Approach for Reducing Consumer Food Waste; Putting Insights in Practice. / Timmermans, A.J.M.; Wunder, Stephanie; van Herpen, H.W.I.

Reduction of Food Loss and Waste: Proceedings of a Conference held atCasina Pio IV, Vatican City, November 11-12, 2019. ed. / J. von Braun; M. Sánchez Sorondo; R. Steiner. Vatican City, 2020. p. 62-70 (Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia; Vol. 147).

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Timmermans AJM, Wunder S, van Herpen HWI. European Approach for Reducing Consumer Food Waste; Putting Insights in Practice. In von Braun J, Sánchez Sorondo M, Steiner R, editors, Reduction of Food Loss and Waste: Proceedings of a Conference held atCasina Pio IV, Vatican City, November 11-12, 2019. Vatican City. 2020. p. 62-70. (Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia).