Community social capital and status: The social dilemma of food waste

Piras, Simone; Pancotto, Francesca; Righi, Simone; Vittuari, Matteo; Setti, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106954

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“…Second, competing motivations related to food could be introduced, e.g. a desire to achieve a status through food abundance (Piras et al 2021). These motivations could interact through a utility function, creating trade-offs, and also be influenced by social network.…”

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“…We choose Italy because the model was developed at the University of Bologna, and because of the lack of evidence about the effectiveness of campaigns, and of large-scale simulations of food waste levels in this coun-try. Italy represents an interesting case study due to the wide economic and socio-political diversity across its territory, which has been extensively studied in the literature (Putnam et al 1993), and which results in different levels of social commitment towards environmental goals, including food waste reduction (Piras et al 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…between enjoying large portions and avoiding waste, is common (Cornil et al 2014). Piras et al (2021) have shown that food waste is a social dilemma between care for the society (which is more common in areas with high social capital measured as political participation and blood and organ donations) and individual status deriving from food abundance. An "acceptable range of dishonesty" (i.e.…”

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“…As Mihajlov and Puda [ 121 ] rightfully mention, modifying food choices towards healthier diets along with reducing food loss and waste can decrease greenhouse gas emissions and improve the production potential of food systems in the long run. While Piras et al [ 122 ] found the largest share of food to be wasted at the household level in developed countries, the waste–consumption relationship is mediated by the level of income even across the developing world. For instance, Eini-Zinab et al [ 123 ] revealed that eating more dairy products and fruits and vegetables and less bread, rice, pasta, legumes, hydrogenated fats, and sugars could reduce the total water and carbon footprints of the agricultural sector by 14% each.…”

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The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

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Over the past decades, both the quantity and quality of food supply for millions of people have improved substantially in the course of economic growth across the developing world. However, the number of undernourished people has resumed growth in the 2010s amid food supply disruptions, economic slowdowns, and protectionist restrictions to agricultural trade. Having been common to most nations, these challenges to the food security status of the population still vary depending on the level of economic development and national income of individual countries. In order to explore the long-run determinants of food supply transformations, this study employs five-stage multiple regression analysis to identify the strengths and directions of effects of agricultural production parameters, income level, price indices, food trade, and currency exchange on supply of calories, proteins, and fats across 11 groups of agricultural products in 1980–2018. To address the diversity of effects across developing nations, the study includes 99 countries of Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa categorized as low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income economies. It is found that in low-income countries, food supply parameters are more strongly affected by production factors compared to economic and trade variables. The effect of economic factors on the food supply of higher-value food products, such as meat and dairy products, fruit, and vegetables, increases with the rise in the level of income, but it stays marginal for staples in all three groups of countries. The influence of trade factors on food supply is stronger compared to production and economic parameters in import-dependent economies irrelevant of the gross national income per capita. The approach presented in this paper contributes to the research on how food supply patterns and their determinants evolve in the course of economic transformations in low-income countries.

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“…In Shanghai, it may appear that I am a Shanghainese, and I cannot lose the face of Shanghainese. The theory of social capital believes that social capital can have a significant positive impact on the classification of domestic waste [45]. Cultivating social capital to form an independent governance model has become a new direction for improving the effectiveness of domestic waste governance [46], and a community should create an opportunity for the residents to communicate, consolidate and improve their trust bond with one another [47].…”

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Research on the Treatment of Municipal Solid Waste Source Classification Behavior Based on Institutional Engineering – Comment on “Shanghai Municipal Domestic Waste Management Regulations”

Weng¹

2021

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Currently, waste classification management is being carried out in various parts of China. In order to solve the pain points and difficulties of individuals' "reluctant to sort, lazy to sort", which is the source of domestic waste management behavior, the thesis is based on the cost-utility theory, using institutional engineering research methods to study the behavioral cost and utility of individuals' disposal of domestic waste. Studies show that after the implementation of waste classification management, the increase in the cost and the decline in utility of the individuals' behaviors in handling domestic waste is the root cause of the failure of waste classification management in China. At present, the implementation of Shanghai's domestic waste management regulations has problems such as mismatch of penalties, poorly targeted penalties, excessive supervision costs, too few convenient facilities, and individuals' resistance. The paper puts forward a "double-track" differentiated garbage classification management method, in which market mechanism is introduced to collect garbage classification service fee from individuals with time cost and reward individuals without time cost, while existing measures such as strengthening supervision and increasing convenient garbage classification facilities are taken. On the premise of ensuring the implementation of waste classification management objectives, the utility of individuals' waste classification behavior can be improved, the government supervision cost can be reduced, and the Pareto improvement can be achieved.

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Community social capital and status: The social dilemma of food waste

Cited by 33 publications

References 42 publications

From social interactions to private environmental behaviours: The case of consumer food waste

From social interactions to private environmental behaviours: The case of consumer food waste

The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

Research on the Treatment of Municipal Solid Waste Source Classification Behavior Based on Institutional Engineering – Comment on “Shanghai Municipal Domestic Waste Management Regulations”

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