- Provide a critical review of current best practice in household-level food waste prevention, to analyse the effectiveness of the current food waste prevention models against identified alternative behaviour change interventions and subsequently provide insight into the future format of food waste prevention initiatives in Ireland.
- Identify and analyse relevant international best-practices in household-level food waste prevention using behaviour change techniques.
- Identify and analyse best practice in other similar consumer behaviour fields
- Determine the effectiveness of the current waste prevention actions in Ireland through the use of both existing data and the generation of new, more long-term indicators of consumer behaviour change.
- Design a framework for the food waste prevention actions to implement best practice behavioural change
- Implement a behaviour intervention protocol, conducting a statistical analysis of the data collected and providing recommendations on the most suitable behaviour intervention to reduce food waste in Ireland.
Reports
To date 3 Work Packages consisting of 4 Reports have been drawn up to detail the progress of the Project. The Reports are as Follows.
Work Package 1
Report 1 of 2
Review of Best Practice for Interventions to Reduce Consumer Food Waste
This report is one of two outputs for Food Path Workpackage 1. It consists of a detailed review of food waste prevention best practices and interventions. It is accompanied by the report: Review of Relevant Consumer Behaviour Change Studies and Initiatives, which provides a broader view of behaviour change policies and interventions that are relevant to food waste prevention.
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Report 2 of 2
Review of relevant behaviour change studies and interventions
This report is one of two outputs for Food Path Workpackage 1. It provides an overview of a wide range of behaviour change policies and interventions that are relevant to food waste prevention. A more targeted review of food waste prevention best practices and interventions is provided in the accompanying report: Review of Best Practice for Interventions to Reduce Consumer Food Waste.
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Work Package 2 Report
LThe aim of the work covered in this report on ‘expert insights’ is to support the existing Food Path best practice review, and to access information on food waste prevention that may not have been formally reported, in particular, information on the practicalities of running interventions and on lessons learned from previous work. This will be used to inform the development of upcoming Food Path trial interventions and to support others working in the field.
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Work Package 3 Report
Report on the Design of Consumer-Focused Food Waste Prevention Interventions in Ireland
This Report discusses conducting two interventions in this study, intervention A will examine food waste habits at a household level, whilst intervention B will examine food waste habits within the community. The purpose of these two interventions is to make comparisons between the two intervention groups.
