Effective policies to mitigate food waste in Qatar

Abusin, Sana; Lari, Noora; Khaled, Salma; Emadi, Noor Al

doi:10.5897/ajar2019.14381

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“…Similar to other countries, Saudi Arabian consumers tend to overbuy food and beverages during Ramadan (Aktas et al, 2018;Sobaih, 2023). Cultural traditions can result in unnecessary food waste, specifically during festive events (Abusin et al, 2020;Elshaer et al, 2021). Based on Jan Mohamed et al (2013), people spend much time buying and consuming large quantities of food during Iftar.…”

Section: Excessive Food-buying and Food Wastementioning

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Spur of the moment: the unintended consequences of excessive food purchases and food waste during Ramadan

Hassan,

Low

2024

BFJ

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PurposeFood waste, a global conundrum with adverse socioeconomic and environmental implications, occurs when more money is spent on food during occasions akin to Ramadan. This study examines the moderating role of antecedents (festive experience, nostalgic food memory, perceived scarcity, and religiosity) to understand the impacts of excessive food buying on Ramadan food waste.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional survey was performed with a self-administered questionnaire using Google Forms to gather data on social media. Notably, 349 valid responses were analysed via Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) with SmartPLS 4 for model development and hypothesis testing.FindingsFestive experience, nostalgic memory, and perceived food scarcity could explain excessive buying behaviour. In this vein, excessive food buying contributed to Ramadan food waste. Meanwhile, religiosity was found to moderate excessive food-buying behaviour.Practical implicationsThe empirical findings offered useful insights for practitioners and policymakers to implement optimal marketing strategies and interventions that improve responsible consumption and minimise food waste.Originality/valueThis study provided a sound understanding of consumer buying behaviour during Ramadan regarding food waste and overconsumption. The current work delineated the role of descriptive, injunctive norms and cognitive dissonance in shaping buying behaviour during Ramadan.

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Section: Excessive Food-buying and Food Wastementioning

confidence: 99%

Spur of the moment: the unintended consequences of excessive food purchases and food waste during Ramadan

Hassan,

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2024

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Contribution of Non-profit Organizations to Food Security and Sustainability in the State of Qatar

2022

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Despite the relatively long experience of charitable organizations in social and humanitarian aspects in Qatar, little is known about their role in food security and sustainability. This chapter sheds light on the issue of food waste and assesses the role of non-profit organizations in food security and sustainability in the State of Qatar. The analysis is based on data sourced from two active non-profit organizations working on food surplus and redistribution in Qatar, namely, Hifz Al Naema and Wahab. The results indicate that the organizations under study are exerting a considerable effort to maintain food security and to reduce food waste, and their intervention increase over time. However, despite the sizable efforts exerted by charitable organizations to sustain food security, the issue of food surplus in Qatar still is a puzzling problem. The chapter recommends that collective cooperation between academics, government entities, and civil society would help in designing an effective strategy that aims to sustain food security. Moreover, policymakers need to support and encourage charitable organizations to participate in managing, sustaining, and achieving food security. Therefore, allocating grants and facilities to organizations that operate in food waste management would stimulate the charitable societies to contribute to food sustainability.

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Food security strategy to enhance food self-sufficiency and overcome international food supply chain crisis: the state of Qatar as a case study

Amhamed,

Genidi,

Abotaleb

et al. 2023

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The food security challenge continues to be one of the main issues that currently face the world despite improved economic development in many countries. The challenge is particularly unique in one of the world’s arid regions, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). This paper analyses the food security strategies of Qatar (one of the six countries that make up the GCC), especially since 2017 when the blockade of the country by its neighbors began. Qatar’s current food sufficiency was made possible by the country’s swift and profound changes in its food production strategies to ensure food security for its population. In order to provide locally sourced foods to the population, private and public initiatives were activated to support small farmers to distribute and supply their farm produce to local markets. The results show that Qatar has shifted from importing some food commodities to locally producing a high proportion of its foods to the extent of becoming an exporter of some farm produce. However, this increase in the local food production was achieved at the cost of depleting the local groundwater at a rate higher than the natural recharge. This paper thus critically assesses the specific situation of food security in Qatar that could be used as an example for other countries aiming to strengthen their food security, especially during transnational crises when international food supply chains suffer from unavoidable disruption (e.g., COVID-19 crisis).

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Effective policies to mitigate food waste in Qatar

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Spur of the moment: the unintended consequences of excessive food purchases and food waste during Ramadan

Spur of the moment: the unintended consequences of excessive food purchases and food waste during Ramadan

Contribution of Non-profit Organizations to Food Security and Sustainability in the State of Qatar

Food security strategy to enhance food self-sufficiency and overcome international food supply chain crisis: the state of Qatar as a case study

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