User practice-oriented design intervention areas for sustainable behavior change focusing on food waste

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The literature on food loss and waste is rapidly expanding. Most of the studies in this literature highlight the billion tons of food lost or wasted annually in an attempt to draw attention to the ever-growing issue which jeopardizes not only global food security by threatening the availability, accessibility, and utilization of food but also the sustainability of all food systems by causing economic, social, and environmental distress. This distress makes sustainable transitions an imperative for food systems and calls for Design for Sustainability for action. Since consumer-level food waste accounts for not only the waste of food but also the waste of all resources utilized farm to fork, Design for Sustainable Behavior focuses on consumer behaviors and Practice-Oriented Design for Sustainability on consumer practices to reduce food waste. Regarding these, this thesis aims at exploring and identifying consumer household food practices followed to reduce and even prevent food waste within which multiple problem areas were defined in the study for design intervention.

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Food waste, Design for sustainability, Practice-oriented design for sustainability, Design for sustainable behavior change

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O. B. Zafer, “User practice-oriented design intervention areas for sustainable behavior change focusing on food waste,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.