Department of Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
10.21608/sjas.2024.290731.1425
Abstract
The research aimed to identify the current situation of food waste within the rural family in the study sample, to identify the causes of food waste from the point of view of the respondents in the study sample, to identify the behavior of the respondents to reduce food waste, and to identify the factors influencing the behavior of the respondents to reduce food waste. The data was collected through the questionnaire for rural women living in the villages of Kafr El-Shiekha Salma in Qalyoubia Governorate, the months of August and September 2023, and the size of the study sample was 155 female respondents, Frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, alpha-Cronbach coefficient, and chi-square test using SPSS for statistical analysis. The results showed that about 40% of the female respondents had very little food waste, and about 98.3% of the female respondents do not dispose of their wasted food, but rather benefit from the wasted food by feeding it to birds and animals, and that about 86.1% of the female respondents fall into the middle category to the degree of benefiting from waste. Food, the most important cause of food waste was “food rot”. The results also showed that the most important factors influencing the behavior of rural women in practices to reduce food waste in the study sample are: (the age of the wife, the number of shopping times, the degree of benefit from the wasted food, and the economic value of the wasted food).
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