Consumer Behaviour

REFRESH Final Results Brochure

franka.paetzke — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:48:09 +0000

Flyer

The REFRESH final results brochure provides an overview of the work undertaken within the project including key insights and links to the results that are available online.

REFRESH Video: Research against food waste

franka.paetzke — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 16:32:02 +0000

Video

In 2019, REFRESH has come to an end. Since 2015, the 26 project partners from across Europe and China have made considerable progress in tackling food losses and food waste along production and supply chains with an integrated approach towards a more sustainable and responsible food system. This video summarises the main activities and findings of the project.

REFRESH Video: Reducing consumer food waste

franka.paetzke — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 14:51:53 +0000

Video

Policy recommendations to improve food waste prevention and valorisation in the EU

franka.paetzke — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:28:14 +0000

Report

This report presents a series of policy recommendations based on research conducted within REFRESH to reduce food waste along the whole supply chain, and improve the management of surplus food and food waste flows at the European level.

A roadmap to reduce food waste in Europe

franka.paetzke — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:18:25 +0000

Report

This report adopts a Bayesian hierarchical mixed-effects modelling approach, based on previous REFRESH work, to quantify the relationships between socioeconomic and demographic indicators and household food waste and the potential impact of an external intervention on food waste.

A pan-European simulation of selected interventions

franka.paetzke — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:14:25 +0000

Report

This report consists in a series of reports developing estimates for household food waste levels under four different scenarios for each European country and for the whole EU28.

Pan-European scenarios of food waste levels

franka.paetzke — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:13:50 +0000

Report

This report collects 29 single food waste scenarios (28 country scenarios and a prediction scenario related to the whole EU-28), describing the amounts of food wasted every year by an average household and are based on predictions of food waste levels conducted considering the current values of different socioeconomic and demographic factors.

Final report on dissemination and exploitation of REFRESH results

franka.paetzke — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:36:06 +0000

Report

This report provides a detailed overview of REFRESH’s activities as well as an assessment of their outreach and impact. It also reflects on the lessons learned of REFRESH’s communication activities, including barriers and success formats.

Video message from EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis

ILM — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:05:45 +0000

With the close of REFRESH in June 2019 the EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis congratulates to the success of an outstanding research project. In a video message, he says that with its concrete actions and tools developed, REFRESH results will continue to guide EU policy for food waste reduction. The Commissioner himself was involved in many events and activities of the project. In particular, Commissioner Andriukaitis underlines the value of REFRESH insights on how to better understand and reduce consumer food waste and the voluntary agreements that have been established in four EU countries and that will guide the way for more public private partnerships.

Behavioural Economics: Linking Bayesian and agent-based models to assess consumer food waste

franka.paetzke — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:41:07 +0000

Report

This report presents the results of the simulations from an integrated model of consumer food waste. This is the first step in developing a model that can assess the impact of policy interventions on reducing food waste among consumers. Final aim is to create a predictive and dynamic policy support tool for a road map for the 50% reduction of European food waste by 2030. This model combines an Agent Based Model and a Bayesian Network.

Evaluation Framework for Action Innovation projects

franka.paetzke — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:43:11 +0000

Report

A suite of case studies from across the EU, demonstrating actions to reduce food losses and waste.

Behavioural economics: Assessing Food Waste innovations diffusion through Agent Based Models (ABM)

franka.paetzke — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:03:22 +0000

Report

Food Waste is problem related to all the actors of the Food Value Chain: producers, retailers and consumers. In this context, retail sector plays an important role in tackling the food waste problem. Food waste at the retail level can be reduced through the adoption of food waste reducing innovations. The authors investigate the most relevant factors that promote the adoption of those innovations among retailers.

Guided Bicycle Tour and Tasting of Local Organic Produce in the Agricultural Park of Gallecs

franka.paetzke — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 15:24:36 +0000

On May 9th, one day before the REFRESH final conference 2019 that was organized in cooperation with the Barcelona Design Centre, four on hands experience were offered, featuring food waste innovators from business and civil society in the Barcelona area. One of these was a guided bicycle tour followed by a tasting of local organic produce in the Agricultural Park of Gallecs, organized by Gemma Safont I Artal (Manager of the Consortium of Gallecs), and Albert Garcia Macian (Head of the European projects and International Relations at the City Council of Mollet).

Food-for-Thought: an Interactive Dialogue over Dinner about Food Sustainability in the City

franka.paetzke — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 15:08:25 +0000

On May 9th, one day before the REFRESH final conference 2019 that was organized in cooperation with the Barcelona Design Centre, four on hands experience were offered, featuring food waste innovators from business and civil society in the Barcelona area. One of these was "Food-for-Thought: an Interactive Dialogue over Dinner about Food Sustainability in the City", organized by Mayya Papaya from Foodisms.

World Food Day 2019

franka.paetzke — Tue, 14 May 2019 15:11:01 +0000

The World Food Day is celebrated each year on 16 October to promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for all.