Socioeconomic Relations of Food Waste in Selected European Countries

Filip Tkáč, Ingrida Košičiarová, Elena Horská and Kristína Mušinská
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Filip Tkáč: Trade and Social Studies, Institute of Marketing, Slovak University of Agriculture, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia
Ingrida Košičiarová: Trade and Social Studies, Institute of Marketing, Slovak University of Agriculture, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia
Elena Horská: Trade and Social Studies, Institute of Marketing, Slovak University of Agriculture, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia
Kristína Mušinská: Trade and Social Studies, Institute of Marketing, Slovak University of Agriculture, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia

Economies, 2022, vol. 10, issue 6, 1-10

Abstract: The present paper deals with the issue of food waste in selected European countries, in which we have tried to analyze the socioeconomic rations. The main aim of our research was to analyze food waste quantity and compare the amount of wasted food in European Union countries (except Cyprus due to the unavailability of food waste data). The analysis was based on a dataset provided through the Food Waste Index Report 2021 by the UN environment program and complemented by socioeconomic variables obtained from EUROSTAT. For a deeper analyses of the obtained results, we formulated three assumptions, which have been tested with the use of several statistical methods—Pearson’s correlation coefficient, linear regression, the distance from a fictitious object method, and hierarchical clustering. Our results show that the amount of food wasted in different sectors (retail, food, households) is not correlated, and any of the analyzed socioeconomic variables do not influence the ranking of countries by the crucial variable.

Keywords: food loss; food waste; European Union countries; consumption; sector; household (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E F I J O Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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