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Three Essays on the Economics of Food Waste.

Danyi. Qi ProQuest Information and Learning Co.; The Ohio State University. Agricultural, Environmental and Developmental Economics. 2018

Dissertations Abstracts International 80-06A.

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  • 題名:
    Three Essays on the Economics of Food Waste.
  • 著者: Danyi. Qi
  • ProQuest Information and Learning Co.; The Ohio State University. Agricultural, Environmental and Developmental Economics.
  • 主題: Economic theory; Sustainable Development Goals; food insecurity; Electronic books
  • 所屬期刊: Dissertations Abstracts International 80-06A.
  • 描述: Approximately 40% of food produced in the United States is lost or wasted, while 12.7% of the U.S households were food insecure at least some time during the year 2015. Hence, in 2015, the United States announced the first ever national goal to reduce food waste by 50% by 2030, and on the heels of this announcement, the United Nations adopted a similar objective as part of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to halve per capita food waste worldwide at the retail and consumer levels by 2030. Efforts have been made to reduce food waste worldwide since then, however, the progress towards the 50% reduction goal is stagnant or regressed. Consumers are responsible for most food loss and waste in the U.S., racking up almost 90 billion pounds annually, or 20% of the U.S. food supply. Hence, addressing consumer food waste is one of the potential keys to achieve the ambitious national goals. The current intervention efforts show that consumer food waste is difficult to curb and food waste policies may alter not only food waste behaviors but also other food related decisions, e.g., food selection and intake decisions. Therefore, it is critical to explore the likely impacts of food waste reduction initiatives on consumer food selection, intake and waste and anticipate potential market and behavioral responses so that policy priorities can be set. In the following three essays, I analyze how consumers respond to food waste reduction policies and compare the effects of different policies based on consumer adjustments. I find that the perceived costs and benefits of wasting food are most likely to be heterogeneous among consumers; hence consumers' responses to changes in the costs and benefits induced by food waste reduction polices are also likely heterogeneous. Hence, to be more efficient, food waste reduction policies should discriminate among consumers based on their own characteristics and their elasticities to the cost and benefit of changes. When the cost of foo
  • 出版者: Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2018.
  • 建立日期: 2018
  • 格式: 1 online resource (138 pages)..
  • 語言: 英文
  • 識別號: ISBN9780438592346
  • 資源來源: NUTN ALEPH
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