A5011469490- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Regional Development and Management Studies
- Global Trade and Competitiveness
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Rural development and sustainability
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Diverse academic and cultural studies
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Agricultural economics and policies
University of Bologna
2016-2025
International Water Management Institute
2020
University of Reggio Calabria
2015
The growing volumes of food globally lost or wasted and implications for security sustainability have raised the concern researchers, governments, international organizations grass-root movements. Much research experiences investigating waste causes drivers focus on one specific segment supply chain limit analysis to situation few countries, while studies wider geographical scope also target other relevant diversified objectives (e.g., definition, quantification, environmental economic...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide insights on the relationships between consumers’ income and household food waste behaviors. Design/methodology/approach Attitude toward a paradigmatic (economic) non-standard decision making. Based behavioral economics concepts empirical evidences, study analyzes frequency its main drivers with focus individual income. Through panel 1,403 Italian consumers, behavior determinants are modeled for five typologies using proportional odds models...
Food losses and waste are currently at the heart of academic debates, civil society initiatives, political agendas. This paper investigates food in school catering services focusing on six schools located municipality Verona (Italy). It aims to quantify waste, as a measure inefficiency, identify main causes, suggest set prevention reduction interventions. For these purposes is defined all products discarded from chain while still preserving their nutritional value complying with safety...
Reducing food waste is globally considered as a key challenge in developing sustainable systems. Although most generated at the household level, consumers hardly recognize their responsibility, and factors underpinning perception of quantity wasted home are still unclear. This paper aims to fill this gap by analyzing results large-scale survey conducted Italy. The perceived was measured through Likert scale analyzed means logistic regression against set predictors, including motivations,...
The COVID-19 pandemic unveiled the fragility of food sovereignty in cities and confirmed close connection urban dwellers have with food. Although was not responsible for a systemic failure, it suggested how citizens would accept indeed support transition toward more localized production systems. As this attitudinal shift is aligned sustainability literature, work aims to explore tools actions needed policy framework transformation that recognizes multiple benefits systems, while considering...
About one third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted. Along with a lively debate on loss and waste definition quantification, growing attention dedicated to the faceted dimensions consumers’ waste. Drivers, effects, mitigating factors have been mainly studied in isolation, limited paid their interrelationships. This study aims contribute better understanding underlying relationship between causes perception role concern effects factors. The article draws survey submitted 938...
Economies have begun to shift from linear circular, adopting, among others, waste-to-energy approaches. Waste management is known be a paramount challenge, and food waste (FW) in particular, has gained the interest of several actors due its potential impacts energy recovery opportunities. However, selection alternative valorization scenarios can pose queries certain contexts. This paper evaluates four FW based on anaerobic digestion composting, comparison landfilling, by applying consistent...
In developed countries, the largest share of food is wasted at household level. Household waste results from a complex interaction between economic factors, well-established routines, and social norms. To explain this interaction, we propose simple model behavior where individual costs generated by wasting are counterbalanced security status through acquiring excess food, thus causing dilemma. This trade-off mediated capital, which measures intensity with each within community evaluates...
The City Region Food Systems approach has been proposed to achieve food system resilience and nutrition security while promoting the urgent ecological transition within urban peri-urban areas, especially after COVID-19 pandemic. However, great diversity of initiatives composing in Europe poses barriers assessment their integrated sustainability. Hence, present work is developed EU-H2020 project System European Cities (FoodE), build a consistent sustainability scoring that allows comparative...
The environmental impacts of farming practices are central to discussions on sustainable food systems, as current often degrade soils, water, biodiversity, and ecosystem health. Carbon has emerged a promising strategy, shown enhance soil health, increase organic carbon, support farm profitability. This study explores the use Life Cycle Thinking methodologies evaluate environmental, economic, social dimensions conservation agriculture, specifically testing three models involving introduction...