Consumers discard a lot more food than widely believed: Estimates of global food waste using an energy gap approach and affluence elasticity of food waste

• Monika van den Bos Verma ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: monika05@gmail.com

  Affiliation Wageningen Economic Research, Wageningen University and Research, The Hague, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9393-6171

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• Linda de Vreede,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Current address: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  Affiliation Wageningen Economic Research, Wageningen University and Research, The Hague, The Netherlands

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• Thom Achterbosch,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wageningen Economic Research, Wageningen University and Research, The Hague, The Netherlands

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• Martine M. Rutten

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Current address: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands

  Affiliation Wageningen Economic Research, Wageningen University and Research, The Hague, The Netherlands

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