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Food Waste Behaviour: A Cross-country Study

dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, P. R.
dc.contributor.authorAnjos, Ofélia
dc.contributor.authorGonçalves Oliveira Valente da Cruz-Lopes, Luísa Paula
dc.contributor.authorde Pinho Ferreira Guiné, Raquel
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-05T10:18:21Z
dc.date.available2026-01-05T10:18:21Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.description.abstractFood choices are influenced by personal, cultural, and religious factors influence food choices. Within the EATMOT project, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 11919 voluntary adult participants residing in 16 countries to investigate how people relate to food waste, their attitudes, and how these vary across socio-demographic groups. The questionnaire was translated into local languages, and non-probabilistic methods selected the sample. Descriptive statistics tools were used to at the 5% significance level. The decision tree method (Classification and Regression Trees) identified the best predictors, which split the samples into clusters. Statistically significant differences were found between groups for all socio-demographic variables related to avoiding food waste when cooking at home. Similar differences emerged for choosing local foods and preferring restaurants that promote strategies to minimize food waste. The tree classification analysis revealed that, for all three items studied, the variable country, characterized by different cultures, was the most important discriminating factor. This work highlighted that people from different countries and socio-demographic groups as defined by established cut-offs for each characteristic.por
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/9607
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectFood culture
dc.subjectfood surplus
dc.subjectconsumer behaviour
dc.subjectcooking
dc.subjectlocal food preferences
dc.subjecteating out
dc.titleFood Waste Behaviour: A Cross-country Studypor
dc.typejournal
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oaire.citation.titleBulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca. Food Science and Technology
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person.familyNameGonçalves Oliveira Valente da Cruz-Lopes
person.familyNamede Pinho Ferreira Guiné
person.givenNameOfélia
person.givenNameLuísa Paula
person.givenNameRaquel
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