A Note on Data-driven Actor-differentiation and SDGs 2 and 12: Insights from a Food-sharing App

Lucas, Benjamín; Francu, R. Elena; Goulding, James; Harvey, J.; Nica-Avram, Georgiana; Perrat, Bertrand

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2021.104266

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“…However, in this work, due to the use of mobile app data drawn from a popular food sharing platform, we are able to link a range of behavioural factors. For example, following existing work such as [50], we can analyse whether a person donates to or takes a lot of food from other people, whether they volunteer to help others, and whether they interact in tightly-knit community groups or sparsely connected networks. Previous work has shown some people who participate in food sharing are in food insecurity [51], typically meaning they participate differently in the social groups that form, and this adds an important dimension to the study as we know that food insecurity, like most other forms of deprivation, has a corrosive effect on life satisfaction [52].…”

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Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data

Milligan,

Harvey,

Dowthwaite

et al. 2023

2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)

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Life satisfaction significantly contributes to wellbeing and is linked to positive outcomes for individual people and society more broadly. However, previous research demonstrates that many factors contribute to the life satisfaction of an individual person, including: demography, socioeconomic status, health, deprivation, family life, friendships, social networks, living environment, and the broad range of behaviours enacted by the person, such as helping or volunteering. Consequently, it is challenging to disentangle the factors that contribute most significantly to life satisfaction, and thus more importantly, inform public policies designed to help foster positive wellbeing. We analyse primary survey data (n=2849) on self-reported life satisfaction in relation to a range of self-reported and observed variables associated with wellbeing. Specifically, we draw on a massive paired dataset related to use of a food sharing application in London, to augment the analysis using additional socioeconomic, environmental, and behavioural variables. Through a random forest machine learning approach and variable importance measures, we evaluate how a range of factors, that are often only evaluated individually, provide relative contributions towards life satisfaction. Result reveal that factors such as employment and social reliance contribute most significantly towards the experience of life satisfaction.

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Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data

Milligan,

Harvey,

Dowthwaite

et al. 2023

2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)

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“…Food sharing, an initiative to reduce food waste by redistributing surpluses [6,10], represents a response to United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2 and 12 that relate to zero hunger and responsible consumption [11,12]. The practice of food sharing was initially restricted to household or kinship relationships such as family, neighbours, or friends.…”

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“…Previous food sharing studies have mainly employed the sharing economy as a fundamental sharing model [13][14][15]. However, a significant drawback of using the broad and macroscopic sharing economy concept is that it may fail to capture the dynamics of food sharing at the micro level [12,[16][17][18][19], which is important because it encompasses the actors, their motivation, actions, and consequences of food sharing activities.…”

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A Conceptual Framework for Food Sharing as Collaborative Consumption

Octavia

Nasution

Yudoko

2022

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Food waste has increased significantly and become a global issue amidst a growing concern regarding famine in several countries. Food sharing constitutes the solution to the problem provided an appropriate framework is developed that guides its application. The sharing economy was touted as the appropriate framework, yet it is excessively macroscopic to be able to capture the dynamics of food sharing activities. A microscopic framework is required to overcome this problem, the concept of collaborative consumption with its focus on activity level being one potential solution. However, an investigation into how food sharing activities can be viewed as collaborative consumption should be completed. This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between food sharing activities and collaborative consumption. The authors employed a systematic literature review conducted by meta-analysis and content analysis to identify the commonalities between the two and the theories underlying them. The result is a conceptual framework of food sharing activities as a collaborative consumption practice. The framework highlights eight propositions that can explain the intention, performance, and continuity of food sharing activities. At the end of the paper, the authors outline the theoretical and managerial contributions and recommend future research activities.

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“…The SDGs comprise the 2030 Agenda, which serves as an action plan on ongoing issues for the planet, such as poverty, education, health, and access to water. Among the 17 SDGs, the SDG 12 focuses on sustainable production and consumption, highlighting the role of food distribution and access to local foods with family labour [5][6][7].…”

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Overcoming the Challenges of Sustainable Family Agriculture in Southern Brazil: Contributions to the 2030 Agenda

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Concerning sustainability and food production, efforts are made by social, political, and environmental actors to enact changes in production and consumption patterns and adopt new management models and instruments. Hunger, waste, poor distribution of food, and low diversity affect many countries, and small family farmers are abandoning their activities due to the challenges which minimize the possibilities of contemplating SDG 12. Local production and SDG 12 favor access to safe and cheaper food, thereby encouraging food security and minimizing food waste. Focus groups and interviews were conducted with the participation of local actors in 16 municipalities in southern Brazil. The study took a qualitative research approach and content analysis was used as a mode of investigation. It was then possible to provide assistance to the decision-making process of local and regional public authorities in terms of development to support sustainable production and consumption. This study highlights the contribution of family agriculture to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), specifically SDG 12. The study presents guidelines and means of implementation for a more sustainable family agriculture, as well as attributes to the challenges of the sector. With this approach, it was possible to connect the problem with the solutions, classifying them by thematic axes.

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A Note on Data-driven Actor-differentiation and SDGs 2 and 12: Insights from a Food-sharing App

Cited by 14 publications

References 58 publications

Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data

Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data

A Conceptual Framework for Food Sharing as Collaborative Consumption

Overcoming the Challenges of Sustainable Family Agriculture in Southern Brazil: Contributions to the 2030 Agenda

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