Mitigating climate change: food consumption and food waste behavioral interventions

This research paper presents a systematic map of existing research on behaviourally-informed interventions aimed at altering consumer food consumption and food waste patterns to mitigate climate change.

• The study identified 49 articles containing 56 separate studies and 18 literature reviews, noting a significant rise in publications starting in 2016 and a prevalence of research conducted in canteens and restaurants.
• Research is geographically concentrated in the Anglo-Saxon world, with a primary focus on actual food consumption behavior—specifically animal proteins like meat, fish, dairy, and eggs—rather than food waste behavior.
• The authors identified specific knowledge clusters that are suitable for systematic reviews regarding intervention effectiveness, including defaults, social norms, priming, disclosure, ease of use, and micro-environment changes.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2020). Mitigating climate change: food consumption and food waste behavioral interventions. https://www.sei.org/publications/mitigating-climate-change-food-consumption-food-waste-behavioral-interventions/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Mitigating climate change: food consumption and food waste behavioral interventions. 2020. https://www.sei.org/publications/mitigating-climate-change-food-consumption-food-waste-behavioral-interventions/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2020mitigating, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Mitigating climate change: food consumption and food waste behavioral interventions}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2020}, month = oct, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/mitigating-climate-change-food-consumption-food-waste-behavioral-interventions/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }