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Stimulating Green Growth in Bandung’s Food Sector: An Agent Based Simulation on Food Waste Problem

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Food waste is one of the primary contributors to environmental change in Indonesia, posing a significant threat to global sustainability. Food waste in landfills contributes to more methane emissions than any other landfilled material due to its quick decay rate. One of these problems is occurring in the Bandung area, where a humanitarian tragedy caused by a garbage explosion and landslide took place 20 years, leading to a severe waste problem. A similar issue is now happening again. The latest data shows that the final waste disposal site in Bandung area has reached 1200% of its capacity, with around 45% of total waste being dominated by food waste. As a response to this situation, this study simulated the food waste problem in Bandung area, especially in a buffet restaurant to identify the mechanisms beyond the waste problem and find a solution. This study proposes an Agent-Based Modelling as a tool to explain the food waste problem in Bandung, Indonesia and how to reduce it, as shaped by different scenarios. Our simulations indicate that introducing the new policy can reduce the amount of food waste generated by the restaurant. The most effective one is the mixed instrument of rewards and fines policy.

Feeding Patterns and Food Waste Behavior on the Nutritional Status of Toddlers

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Food Waste is a growing problem. In household scale, Food Waste often considered as a normal thing. Food composition and less variant (quality) is one of factor who can affect to nutritional status of toddlers and Food Waste, if the more Food Waste produced by toddlers, the more nutrients are wasted in vain, so that the food intake eaten by children does not match the required needs. Toddlers who do not get the food intake that should be, able to affect the nutritional status and result in stunted growth and development of children. This research aims to determine the relationship between Food Waste Behavior and Feeding Patterns on the Nutritional Status of Toddlers in Tanah Sareal District, Bogor City. This type of research is cross sectional with purposive sampling data collection technique with 100 respondents. The statistical test used is Chi-Square. Based on the results of the research, it was found that in Tanah Sareal Subdistrict had a high Food Waste behavior of 69%. While the results of the feeding pattern in Tanah Sareal District have an inappropriate feeding pattern of 52%. There is a significant relationship between Food Waste behavior on the nutritional status of toddlers (p-value of 0.000) and there is a significant relationship between feeding patterns and nutritional status of toddlers (p-value of 0.000).