https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76688 2026-10-12T00:56:39Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/284700 Title: Public attitude towards food waste: The case of Lithuania Authors: Žičkienė, Skaidrė; Kovierienė, Ala; Griščiūtė, Vaiva Abstract: The purpose of the research is to investigate consumers' perception concerning food wastage and their awareness of economic, social and environmental costs concerning the issue. The research focused on the concept of food waste in context of consumers' attitude regarding this problem. Comparative analysis, synthesis and evaluation of scientific literature and legal documents, statistical data collection and analysis was performed together with the results of on-line survey of 500 households representing 1494 inhabitants from all Lithuanian counties. Data was analysed using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS): descriptive statistics, frequencies, crosstabs. Lithuanians discard relatively small amounts of wholesome edible food in comparison with averages for EU 27, but most of them have the limited knowledge of the meaning of "best-before" dates, consumers are strongly influenced by retail promotions, and wasting food for them is primarily associated with a waste of money. State waste management policy is focused on waste sorting, while this research provides the evidence that households are insufficiently informed about economic, social and environmental costs concerning food waste. This underlines the necessity to review the current state policy with emphasis on public education as an important factor in minimizing household food waste. Lithuanians recognize that the consumers are mostly responsible for food waste, but food wasting is treated mainly as financial lost. The added value of this article is the proposal to create information campaigns that will cause a sense of guilt for food squandering. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/284699 Title: Determinants of income diversification among support zone communities of Nigeria national parks Authors: Jacob, Daniel; Onadeko, Samuel; Nelson, Imaobong; Shotuyo, Abdul; Ityavyar, James Abstract: This paper examined determinants of income diversification among households in support zones communities of national parks in Nigeria. This involved the use of household data collected through questionnaires administered randomly among 1009 household heads in the study area. The data obtained were analyzed using probability and non-probability statistical analysis such as regression and analysis of variance to te st for mean difference between parks. The result obtained indicates that the majority of household heads were male (92.57% between the age group of 21-40 years (44.90%), had non-formal education (38.16%), were farmers (65.21%), owned land (95.44%), with the household size of 1-5 (36.67%) and an annual income range of ₦401,000 - ₦600,000 (24.58%). Mean Simpson index of diversity showed a general low (0.375) level of income diversification among the households. Income, age, off-farm dependence, education, household size and occupation where significant (p<0.01) factors that affected households' income diversification. The study recommends improvement in the existing infrastructures and social capital in the communities as avenues to improve the livelihood and ensure positive conservation behaviors in the study area. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/284693 Title: The determinants of management systems implementation: Study results Authors: Boczkowska, Katarzyna; Niziołek, Konrad Abstract: In the recent years the slowdown in the field of management system certification has been observed. There is a need to try and identify the causes of this phenomenon and the use of exploratory factor analysis may prove a very useful tool. The aim of the article is to identify the factors determining the decision to implement management system(s) in accordance with the requirements of the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS/PN-N 18001 standards, related barriers and the effects of the system(s) implementation. Based on the survey carried out on 36 companies with the use of CAWI technique a construct with distinguished scales for the reasons, barriers and benefits of implemented management systems was developed. The selected groups of factors allow to identify the problems more precisely. For example, 3 latent variables determined for the barriers highlighted the problems of implementing the systems connected with the documentation development, the attitudes of management and employees and system documentation implementation or combining it with the one currently existing in the organization. The presented study is an introduction to further extended research. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/284686 Title: Relations between incomes and expenditures on food of Polish households: Regional perspective Authors: Leszczyńska, Małgorzata Abstract: The article assesses the economic condition of households in a time frame view (2000-2016) in the light of income and expenditure (including food expenditure) on an all-Poland scale. It compares selected relations of these categories and indicates the economic health of the households in different regions of Poland. It has been assumed, as a point of reference, that polarisation of the analysed variables is dependent on the geographical area of residence. The data from the research on household budgets performed by GUS was used. A comparative analysis shows that despite the significant improvement in the financial status of households, there are still serious regional disparities. Especially The Eastern region is adversely marked in this respect. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z