The COVID-19 pandemic has represented a major global challenge. In Latin America, both Brazil and Peru reported the highest levels of impact in terms proportional infection death rates. Within this context, study sought to compare food consumption wastage patterns Peruvian Brazilian households. For these purposes, authors conducted quantitative research based on self-reported online survey subm...

The continuing population growth, decreasing availability of productive land due to land conversion, transport emissions of food and other factors will create significant challenges for supplying future food demand and sustainability. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) identified that by 2050 there will be an additional 2.7 billion people in the world (UNDP, 2009). Two thirds of th...

Three experiments were conducted to assess water intake, water wastage, and a means to decrease water wastage by growing-finishing pigs from nipple drinkers. In Exp. 1, 48 pigs were studied during two periods (average BW = 53 and 72 kg for Period 1 and 2, respectively). Water disappearance and wastage were determined for 4 d, while nipple drinkers were set at 50 mm above the shoulder height of ...

BACKGROUND Sub-Saharan Africa faces a human resources crisis in the health sector. Over the past two decades its population has increased substantially, with a significant rise in the disease burden due to HIV/AIDS and recurrent communicable diseases and an increased incidence of noncommunicable diseases. This increased demand for health services is met with a rather low supply of health worker...

The economic, social and environmental costs of food waste are being increasingly recognised. Food waste consists of both edible and inedible components. Whilst wastage of edible food is problematic for obvious reasons, there are also costs associated with the disposal of the inedible fraction to landfill. This is the third in a series of papers examining the costs of food waste throughout the ...

The article aims to compare various aspects of food waste in the context rational management using example two groups: students and employees Poznań University Life Sciences (PULS). survey was conducted on current level wastage households PULS, involving 266 respondents, including 187 (N1) 79 (N2). research analysis obtained results showed differences between younger older people relation prope...