Search Results - "Piras, Simone"

Are questionnaires a reliable method to measure food waste? A pilot study on Italian households by Giordano, Claudia, Piras, Simone, Boschini, Matteo, Falasconi, Luca

“…Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the reliability of questionnaires as a method of quantifying household food waste (FW), thus providing context…”
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Model selection and averaging in the assessment of the drivers of household food waste to reduce the probability of false positives by Grainger, Matthew James, Aramyan, Lusine, Piras, Simone, Quested, Thomas Edward, Righi, Simone, Setti, Marco, Vittuari, Matteo, Stewart, Gavin Bruce

“…Food waste from households contributes the greatest proportion to total food waste in developed countries. Therefore, food waste reduction requires an…”
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Utilizing Sensory and Visual Data in the Value Estimation of Extra Virgin Olive Oil by Suurmets, Seidi, Clement, Jesper, Piras, Simone, Barlagne, Carla, Tura, Matilde, Mokhtari, Noureddine, Thabet, Chokri

“…Food evaluation is a topic central to consumer research and food marketing. However, there is little consensus regarding how consumers combine sensory stimuli,…”
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Volatile and sensory characterization of white wines from three minority Portuguese grapevine varieties by Piras, Simone, Brazão, João, Ricardo-da-Silva, Jorge M., Anjos, Ofélia, Caldeira, Ilda

“…This work focused on the characterization of the volatile compounds and sensory profile of white wines produced from three minority grapevine varieties of…”
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Home‐grown food and the benefits of sharing: The “intergenerational pact” in postsocialist Moldova by Piras, Simone

“…The policy literature on postsocialist Europe tends to frame smallholders' practices of food self‐provisioning and sharing as driven by necessity and proposes…”
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Community social capital and status: The social dilemma of food waste by Piras, Simone, Pancotto, Francesca, Righi, Simone, Vittuari, Matteo, Setti, Marco

“…In developed countries, the largest share of food is wasted at the household level. Household food waste results from a complex interaction between economic…”
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Food waste between environmental education, peers, and family influence. Insights from primary school students in Northern Italy by Piras, Simone, Righi, Simone, Banchelli, Federico, Giordano, Claudia, Setti, Marco

“…Education plays a central role in tackling consumers' food waste. However, research on children's food waste at school tends to focus on quantification and…”
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Problems of farm succession in the post-Soviet space: insights from the Republic of Moldova by Piras, Simone, Botnarenco, Svetlana

“…In post-Soviet countries, the breakdown of collective agriculture generated large numbers of subsistence-oriented smallholders. Two decades later, most land…”
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Post-Soviet smallholders between entrepreneurial farming and diversification. Livelihood pathways in rural Moldova by Piras, Simone, Botnarenco, Svetlana, Masotti, Matteo, Vittuari, Matteo

“…The breakdown of socialist agriculture in post-Soviet countries generated a large number of smallholders, of which only a minority turned to entrepreneurial…”
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From social interactions to private environmental behaviours: The case of consumer food waste by Piras, Simone, Righi, Simone, Setti, Marco, Koseoglu, Nazli, Grainger, Matthew J., Stewart, Gavin B., Vittuari, Matteo

“…•Private food waste behaviours can deviate from the opinions stated during social interactions.•We create an ABM of opinion exchange with interaction threshold…”
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Sustainable Community Movement Organisations and household food waste: The missing link in urban food policies? by Giordano, Claudia, Graziano, Paolo, Lazzarini, Monica, Piras, Simone, Spaghi, Sabrina

“…Household food waste reduction is an important component of the EU action for waste management, and one of the subgoals of SDG 12. So far, policy actions have…”
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Over winter cover crops provide yield benefits for spring barley and maintain soil health in northern Europe by Holland, Jonathan, Brown, Jennifer L., MacKenzie, Katrin, Neilson, Roy, Piras, Simone, McKenzie, Blair M.

“…•Over winter cover crops support spring barley rotations in northern latitudes.•Brassica dominated cover crops increased barley grain yield and grain…”
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Understanding inconsistencies in risk attitude elicitation games: Evidence from smallholder farmers in five African countries by Kahsay, Haftom Bayray, Piras, Simone, Kuhfuss, Laure, Setti, Marco, Marini Govigli, Valentino

“…•Smallholder farmers in developing countries operate under various risk constraints.•Incentivized field experiments eliciting risk attitude report high degrees…”
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Food waste reduction in supply chains through innovations: a review by Aramyan, Lusine, Grainger, Matthew, Logatcheva, Katja, Piras, Simone, Setti, Marco, Stewart, Gavin, Vittuari, Matteo

“…Purpose Agri-food supply chains are facing a number of challenges, which cause inefficiencies resulting in the waste of natural and economic resources, and in…”
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Remittance inflow and smallholder farming practices: The case of Moldova by Piras, Simone, Vittuari, Matteo, Möllers, Judith, Herzfeld, Thomas

“…In the Republic of Moldova, a large number of households that received land shares after the break-down of the collective farm structure currently focus on…”
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Spatial justice on the horizon? A combined Theory of Change scenario tool to assess place-based interventions by Piras, Simone, Tobiasz-Lis, Paulina, Currie, Margaret, Dmochowska-Dudek, Karolina, Duckett, Dominic, Copus, Andrew

“…This paper presents a methodology to assess the internal and external coherence, and the robustness to future uncertainty, of place-based interventions…”
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Corrigendum to ‘From social interactions to private environmental behaviours: The case of consumer food waste’, Resources, Conservation and Recycling 176 (2022), 105952 by Piras, Simone, Righi, Simone, Setti, Marco, Koseoglu, Nazli, Grainger, Matthew J., Stewart, Gavin B., Vittuari, Matteo

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Political debates and agricultural policies: Discourse coalitions behind the creation of Brazil’s Pronaf by Ghinoi, Stefano, Wesz Junior, Valdemar João, Piras, Simone

“…The literature on rural development focuses on the socio-economic effects of agricultural support policies; the process of policy design, however, is devoted…”
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The use of systems models to identify food waste drivers by Grainger, Matthew James, Aramyan, Lusine, Logatcheva, Katja, Piras, Simone, Righi, Simone, Setti, Marco, Vittuari, Matteo, Stewart, Gavin Bruce

“…In developed countries, the largest share of food waste is produced at household level. Most studies on consumers’ food waste use models that identify…”
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Volatile and Sensory Characterization of White Wines from Minority Grapes Varieties by Piras, Simone

“…This work was born from the need of the Portuguese wine sector to increase biodiversity in the production and cultivation of the vine; since over the years,…”
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