The waste of food: a perspective from the students of Business Administration of UPS Guayaquil

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Published: 2016-01-01
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17163/ret.n11.2016.04
Keywords:
Environmental impact, food waste.

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Ercilia Maria Franco Cedeno
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8661-7666

Abstract

To reduce hunger in the world today debates is about the priority of producing more or to reduce food waste. Ecuador is also part of the debate because having a large agricultural production still has levels of waste of resources and a large sector of the population with poverty levels that do not allow them procure the minimum nutrients. Reduce waste should be a priority for all states and for all people to remedy some of the negative impact on the environment and also allow these resources be exploited and the number of hungry people can be decreased.
The aim of this study was to determine the main reasons why people waste food, and stepped through a quantitative analysis, which allowed us to establish the place, time, type of food and the strategy to choose to reduce waste.
The results determined that people do not know the negative environmental impact generated by wasting food.

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Vol. 6 No. 11 (2016): (January-June)
Section
Monographic section

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Author Biography

Ercilia Maria Franco Cedeno

Magister en Sistemas Integrados de Gestión de la Calidad, Ambiente y Seguridad. Universidad Politécnica Salesiana- Guayaquil. Docente Titular Auxiliar de la Carrera Administración de Empresas

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