Creating Value for Customers,Clients, Partners and Society: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Food Waste

ABSTRACT

Roughly one-third of edible food produced in the world is wasted, that is, it is never consumed by humans, despite the persistent demands for nutrition throughout the world. The American Marketing Association defines marketing as “…the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.” When it comes to food, an increasing number of these key stakeholders question how a global marketing system that routinely wastes a startling fraction of its product comports with “…value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large,” and whether the food marketing system can do more to sustainably convert scarce planetary resources into global nutrition. We introduce the articles in this special issue, which provide an intellectual and empirical basis for exploring how the global marketing system generates a substantial amount of food waste and how the food marketing system can do more to reduce the amount of wasted food.     

Estimating a Local Food Waste Baseline

ABSTRACT

This article estimates the amounts of food that is discarded, diverted, and landfilled in Minnesota by comparing and applying approaches and statistics from selected national, regional, and local studies. Our preferred estimates suggest 2.1 million tons of food is discarded in Minnesota, of which 60% is diverted through recovery and recycling efforts. The remaining 834 thousand tons are landfilled. This landfilled amount, considered as “food waste,” is smaller than the 1.3 million tons calculated using the ReFED (2016) methods, but its estimated distribution across the food supply chain is similar. Residential losses account for the largest proportion of food waste landfilled (43%). The processing and manufacturing stage discards the largest proportion of food (36%), but generates the smallest amount landfilled because of a high diversion factor. The range of estimates obtained from various methods highlights the complexities in choosing appropriate assumptions, factors, and datasets when calculating food waste baseline amounts.     

流通环节食品检测的问题和决策

随着近年来我国各地不断频发的食品安全质量问题,越来越多的人开始逐渐的关注食品的安全质量问题,而公众对于食品安全问题的担忧,也逐渐造成了一定的社会隐忧。由于民众的生活水平不断地提高,人们对于生活中食品安全的考量越来越敏感。所以,食品流通环节的质量检测逐渐的引起人们的关注,食品检测工作作为一项繁杂的工作也存在着很多问题,本文旨在探寻食品检测中存在的问题,并加以商讨寻找应对措施。     

The Quality Dimensions of Internet Retail Food Purchasing

ABSTRACT

This exploratory study examines relevant factors affecting consumers' evaluation of product and service quality in the context of Internet retail food purchasing. A total of 489 anecdotes, written by online consumers based on their own shopping experience, were collected and content analyzed. In turn, 18 quality dimensions and 58 sub-attributes were identified. The asymmetric effect of positive and negative attribute-level performances on consumer dis/satisfaction was discussed. The impact of two delivery strategies on consumers' perceived quality was also examined. Finally, managerial implications and recommendations were provided in order to pave the way for possible improvement of the quality of Internet retail food purchasing and, in turn, consumer satisfaction.     

罐头食品杀菌技术研究现状

在食品加工的过程中,杀菌技术有效地使罐头食品安全得到保障,在一定程度上让细菌、霉菌等微生物对其的损伤降低。本文分析了各类杀菌技术对本国罐头食品领域产生的作用,一定程度上改进了罐头食品的质量和营养,展示了现代高效灭菌技术在罐头食品领域中的良好前景。     

Do discounted food products end up in the bin? An investigation into the link between deal‐prone shopping behaviour and quantities of household food waste

Household food waste is considered to be the largest share of food waste along the food supply chain. Given that its recoverability is also more challenging compared to food waste in other stages of the chain, most studies on household food waste adopt a pre‐emptive approach by aiming to identify and address consumer beliefs, attitudes and actions that are linked to food waste. In scientific literature, household food waste has often been studied in relation to the habit of purchasing discounted food products (DFP). However, findings have been contradictory. Specifically, while some authors found that deal‐prone consumers are usually of lower income and therefore display a wiser and more attentive attitude towards grocery shopping, other authors reported that the purchase of discounted products was usually linked to compulsive shopping, hence resulting in higher food waste quantities at home. Due to these discrepant findings, a definitive answer on the impact of DFP on household food waste does not currently exist in the literature. This paper analyses the correlation between the purchase of DFP and weekly household food waste quantities. To do so, we examine (a) the results of a food waste diary experiment carried out on a representative sample of 385 households in Italy in February 2017, and (b) the results of a 23‐items Computer Assisted Web Interview survey administered to the same householders, in which shopping habits were investigated. Results revealed no evidence of either a positive or negative relationship between the purchase of DFP and household food waste quantities. Frequency of grocery shopping was the only variable found to have a significant impact on household food waste quantities.     

城市可持续发展思路下废旧家电回收模式探讨

随着国家对城市废旧家电所带来的经济问题和社会问题的普遍关注,废旧家电回收问题成为非常值得研究的重要课题。应用城市可持续发展理论,从企业和政府两个层面提出我国城市管理废旧家电回收问题的思路和对策,以期为我国解决废旧家电给城市发展所带来的环境和资源问题提供合理化建议。     

关于食品添加剂与食品安全的研究

随着人们生活水平的提高,饮食安全逐渐成为人们关注的重点问题之一,特别是食品中的添加剂,一直是备受人们关注的食品安全问题。为了帮助人们更好地了解食品添加剂,进一步保证人们的正常食品安全,根据笔者自身多年的工作经验,总结了当前比较常见的一些食品添加剂,并对其作用和应用现状进行了简单的介绍,然后对当前存在的食品安全问题提出几点建议,以期有助于我国人民改善当前食品安全问题。     

食品快速检测技术在餐饮监管中的应用

简述食品快速检测的定义、常见方法,详细介绍的食品快速检测在餐饮监管中的应用,描述了食品快速检测的应用现状并展望了食品快速检测的前景。     

出口食品生产企业信息化管理初探

我国出口食品生产企业的数据管理大多数都停留在纸质文档管理的阶段,而食品生产过程原辅料繁多、加工过程复杂,传统的数据管理方式既难以适应现代化的生产,也不利于食品的追溯追踪,影响食品安全。本文从出口食品生产企业信息化管理的角度出发,详细分析成都地区出口食品生产企业的生产经营特点以及在信息化管理方面存在的相关问题。根据相关的特点和问题,提出出口食品生产企业信息化管理的总体规划、建设目标以及相关细则。旨在通过建立信息化的数据管理手段,实现对食品生产企业的现代化管理,有效实现食品整个环节的追溯和追踪,保障食品安全。     

Buying Behavior of Western European Food Retailers

Abstract

The aim of this study has been to analyze important aspects of buying behavior of food retailers, i.e., trade buyers' evaluation of product and vendor attributes, based on a number of background variables, when choosing a new supplier of an already well-known product category. The study encompassed the retailers' buying behavior for pork, fish and cheese products. By conducting a conjoint analysis in sixteen Western European countries (15 'old' EU Countries (except Luxemburg), plus Norway and Austria), it is demonstrated that the traditional four Ps are losing ground to some previously neglected attributes, and that it is possible to generalise retailers' buying behavior for different food products across countries, retail organizations, and buyers.     

保障国家粮食安全的对策建议

农田水利是粮食生产的命脉,是保障粮食安全不可或缺的重要前提.保障我国粮食安全,必须首先重视农田水利发展中的根本性问题,明确农田水利设施的公益性,创新农田水利公共制度安排.其次,要在引入市场化供给机制的同时,加强政府配套制度支撑,完善投入稳定增长机制,加大中央对土地出让收益的统筹力度,增加水利建设中长期贷款,并给予适当财政贴息,鼓励水利企业上市融资,建立“一事一议”激励约束机制,打破市场失灵与政府失灵双重困境.再次,要加强提高水资源利用效率的技术支撑,推广农业节水灌溉技术,提高用水效率和效益,实现水利跨越式发展.     

关于餐饮业食品质量的社会实践报告

实践是检验真理的唯一标准,大学生理应将在学校所学的知识运用到实践中。基于此,笔者选择到餐饮业工作,尽可能地运用所学的知识,在实践中巩固自己所学的知识。     

How to prevent food waste behaviour? A deep empirical research

Food waste has recently emerged as a threat that has negative economic, social, and environmental consequences. Therefore, this study aims to reveal the effect of the intention to avoid food waste (IAFW) on food waste behavior (FWB) and the mediating role of the variables of awareness, knowledge, and habits in terms of these relations. The results of the structural equation model analysis show that the intention to avoid food waste and habits have an essential role in preventing waste behaviour. It is seen that if awareness can be supported by IAFW, then FWB can be reduced. Also, knowledge alone cannot contribute to the FWB, however, knowledge has a significant and negative effect on FWB, when habits and intention were mediators. In another finding that distinguishes the study, it has been revealed that married and women categories should be the most prestigious groups among the demographic variables from the point of the FWB. Theoretical and managerial implications were discussed, and future suggestions were presented.