Fig 1.
Location of study towns in South Africa.
Fig 2.
South Africa’s agricultural regions.
Table 1.
Comparison of the eating patterns of households in the three towns.
Table 2.
Percentage of households not consuming all the prepared food and the frequency of occurrence per month.
Table 3.
Different ways in which households usually deal with the leftover food.
Table 4.
Percentage of households throwing away different types of food waste within each town in the previous 48 hours and the aggregate.
Table 5.
Percentage of households wasting different types of prepared foods per town in the previous 48 hours.
Table 6.
Percentage of households wasting different types of unprepared foods per town in the previous 48 hours.
Table 7.
Percentage of households wasting different drinks per town in the previous 48 hours.
Table 8.
The mean amount of food wasted per household in the past 48 hours.
Table 9.
The overall estimate of the amount of food waste generated by each household and each person per year.
Table 10.
Most cited reasons by households for throwing away food at each study site.