Women’s Role in Food Waste Management in Indonesia (Study Case in Bandung)
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.201203.006How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Community food waste management, Food waste, Waste management, Women, Women organisation
- Abstract
Food waste is considered as a significant challenge in improving global health. Therefore, proper food waste management is essential. In Indonesia, women are in charge of managing the household, including food waste. They are responsible for taking care of food-related activities such as groceries shopping then store it, cook it and eventually manage its waste. Moreover, Indonesia has an active women organisation that is supported by the government. It could be claimed that in Indonesia, food waste management will improve if women are empowered. However, there are only limited studies investigating women role in reducing food waste in the community. To investigate the research objective, I use a qualitative method with a case study approach and in-depth interviews. Based on the study, women activities in the neighbourhood influences food waste management in the household and community. The analysis indicates that women who keenly engage with the women community organisation activities can reduce the amount of food waste generated from home. They also manage their food and their waste appropriately. All in all, women and community women organisation engagement with food waste is enhancing food waste reduction and management in the household and community.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Gumilar Hadiningrat PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/04 TI - Women’s Role in Food Waste Management in Indonesia (Study Case in Bandung) BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Meeting on Public Health and Sports (ISMOPHS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 31 EP - 35 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.201203.006 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.201203.006 ID - Hadiningrat2020 ER -