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Study reveals why food waste rises, falls as incomes grow

phys.org·Karn Dhingra·about 1 month ago
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Emiliano Lopez Barrera, Ph.D., an agricultural economist with Texas A&M AgriLife Research, led a study examining how household food waste changes as incomes rise, revealing patterns that could inform policy and consumer behavior. Credit: Laura McKenzie/Texas A&M AgriLife A new study by a Texas A&M AgriLife Research agricultural economist offers fresh insight into a global problem hiding in plain sight: How can we measure household food waste when it is so hard to track consistently? Emiliano Lopez Barrera, Ph.D., and his co-authors developed a new way to estimate consumer food waste across countries and over time. Their study addresses the long-standing challenge of consistent estimating by using a model-based approach that is less costly than food diaries or direct tracking and flexible enough to be applied with different datasets at different scales, from household surveys to broader country-level analysis. "Before this, estimates were scattered and often costly.…

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