Food waste in Latvian households: amounts, economic aspects
2017
Tokareva, T., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia) | Eglite, A., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia)
Even though thousands of people suffer from hunger every day, there are people that simply throw away their food. Nowadays, even if the food wasting problem is getting more and more urgent, and all kinds of political and non-governmental organizations accentuate the importance of research on this problem, still not much research has been conducted regarding food wasting. A broader research study of food wastage would help to understand how fundamental the influence of a food choice pattern is on the lives of people. The aim of the paper was to find out how much food gets wasted and to identify factors that influence such behaviour in Latvia from the perspective of eating habits. To achieve the aim, the authors conducted a survey in 2013. The 2013 survey questionnaire consisted of 48 open and closed questions. The 2013 study revealed that 13.3 % of all the food bought household members lost and 9.39 % − wasted. In monetary terms, the average household wastes EUR 475.56 per year. By stressing the food waste issue in Latvia early on, it could be possible not to reach average EU wastage rates, which were around 22−25 % in 2016.
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