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“Stay at Home”: The effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on household food waste in Colombia

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Title “Stay at Home”: The effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on household food waste in Colombia
 
Creator Mejia, Daniela
Díaz, Manuel F.
Charry, Andrés
Enciso, Karen
Ramírez, Oscar
Burkart, Stefan
 
Subject covid-19
consumer behaviour
households
food wastes
pandemics
logit analysis
comportamiento del consumidor
hogares
desechos alimentarios
 
Description Household food waste represents one of the main challenges for sustainable development as this directly affects the economy of food consumers, the loss of natural resources and generates additional greenhouse gas emissions. The COVID-19 pandemic and its mitigation strategies caused one of the most serious economic crises in recent decades and could become the worst economic crisis that Latin America has had in its history. The objective of this study is to analyze changes in food waste behavior during the COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia in 2020, applying the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). For this purpose, we conducted a survey with 581 Colombian food consumers, which examined the influence of intentions to not waste food, subjective norms, some situational predictors, questions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the control of perceived behavior on food waste. The results suggest that the TPB can predict the intention to not waste food and, through it, the actual household food waste behavior, considering the lockdown in Colombia as an external shock. We observe that regarding the intention to not waste food, the most relevant variables are attitudes, subjective norms, control of the perceived behavior, and concerns regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. These variables increase the probability on average by a 0.8 Odds Ratio that the intention not to waste food increases, too. Regarding food waste behavior, whether it is considered ordinal or nominal, we see that the most relevant variables are intention, financial attitudes, and control of perceived behavior, doubling the probability that food waste behavior will improve. Based on the results, we provide recommendations for interested stakeholders that can help in the design of instruments for household food waste reduction.
 
Date 2021-10-28
2021-11-09T14:01:57Z
2021-11-09T14:01:57Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Mejia, D.; Diaz, M.; Charry, A.; Enciso, K.; Ramírez, O.; Burkart, S. (2021) “Stay at Home”: The effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on household food waste in Colombia. Frontiers in Psychology 12:764715. ISSN: 1664-1078
1664-1078
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115916
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.764715
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 764715
application/pdf
 
Publisher Frontiers Media SA
 
Source Frontiers in Psychology