Food Waste in Denmark and Sweden
Health in the Humanities Seminar: Presentation by Sebastian Abrahamsson, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at CoRe, Saxo Institute.
Consumer knowledge and food waste
Globally, a startling amount of food is being wasted. This is costly, both in financial and in environmental terms. Consumers, especially those living in wealthier regions of the world, throw away considerable amounts of food. However, much of current food waste research, campaigning and policy is not based on any actual knowledge of what consumers do.
Studying anti-waste and household practices
In this presentation Sebastian will present his project on how consumers handle their food (buy it, use it, waste it, and/or avoid wasting it). Mixed methods are used to comparatively study online anti-wasting campaigns/communities and household practices in two Danish and two Swedish cities in the Sund region.
Challenging understandings of food waste
In the process current understandings of food waste will be challenged by:
- combining a focus on wasting practices and understanding the perishable nature of food,
- highlighting the techniques that consumers use to avoid wasting by caring for it, and
- exploring how people balance sustainable food care with other hopes and daily life demands.
All interested are welcome.
