News of the Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Group
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New food system should curb food waste
- Dutch people waste about 2 billion kilos of food a year. This has a negative impact on food availability, the economy and the environment. Within the... -
Eat Today, Sustain Tomorrow
- This is the title of the inaugural address delivered by Marleen Onwezen on 13 September at Omnia. Onwezen is endowed professor in the Marketing and... -
Symposium: Food Waste | From Excess to Enough
- During the Waste-Free week, on September 12, the Food Waste, From Excess to Enough Symposium will take at Wageningen University. Academics and... -
Starting students learn waste-free cooking during introduction days
- Students taking part in the General Introduction Days (AID) can attend a workshop on waste-free cooking on Monday 21 August. The workshop is offered... -
Marketing and Consumer Behaviour group receives funding to combat food waste
- Globally, around 931 million tonnes of food is wasted every year (UNEP food waste index report 2021). Along the EU food supply chain, from primary... -
Betina Piqueras Fiszman featured on the Table Talk podcast
- Recently Betina Piqueras Fiszman, Associate Professor at the Marketing Consumer and Behaviour group, featured on the Table Talk podcast. Her research... -
Understanding markets fosters environmental stewardship
- Markets drive users of shared natural resources, like grazing lands and fresh water reserves, to overexploitation, that is what is commonly believed.... -
Body wisdom: A new approach to eating
- Working as a dietitian, Katerina Palascha saw how people struggled with the rules that come with a diet. Her observations were in line with a growing... -
Organics unpacked - Absence of packaging can promote the sales of organic fruit and vegetables
- Have you ever wanted to buy fruit and vegetables in your local supermarket and wondered about the plastic wrapping that these products often come in?... -
When attitudes go to waste
- Oftentimes people waste products that could still be used, that is, products that still have remaining value left. For instance, they waste food that...