Sprechi di cibo e tentativi di riduzione. Un caso sperimentale

Zonna, Davide (2016): Sprechi di cibo e tentativi di riduzione. Un caso sperimentale.

Abstract

Food waste is not sustainable anymore. Population growth and inefficiencies into the system will lead to overproduction, deforestations, climate change, social riots. It's time to examine how to reduce those inefficiencies and to make social experiments in order to change this trend. This paper studies all efforts all around the world made to solve the issue and gives the results of a new pilot case study.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Avoiding food waste. A field experiment
• Language: Italian
• Keywords: food waste environment field experiment household FAO WRAP spreco cibo rifiuti esperimento ambiente casa 2016
• Subjects: Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology > Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification

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