Competence Centre on Behavioural Insights

The Joint Research Centre, in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), has set up a multi-disciplinary forum to address consumer food waste. Researchers and practitioners...

Exciting News from the EU! This week, the European Council and European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on a proposal for regulating packaging and packaging waste. Why is this important? Because...

The EU has committed to halving food waste at the retail and consumer level following SDG 12.3 by establishing legally binding reduction targets and enabling their reach...

Food waste is a pressing issue that has significant environmental, social, and economic consequences. In line with its commitment to the global Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3 of halving...

Food waste is a global concern already identified to be addressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (12.3) and the EU policy agenda under the Circular Economy Action Plan...

Growing disparities on multiple socio-economic dimensions have contributed to a sense of unfairness and discontent in Europe. Fairness is a subjective phenomenon, but the far-reaching consequences of perceptions of unfairness warrant a closer...

This report presents the results of a literature review investigating alternative sources of food information available in the marketplace apart from packaging labels, and investigating how consumers use, understand...

Abstract This addendum of the JRC Science for Policy report “Front-of-pack nutrition labelling schemes: a comprehensive review” provides an update of the former publication regarding the effects of front-of-pack nutrition...

This report responds to the anger and frustration felt by too many EU citizens. It asks whether a rising sense of unfairness may be fuelling it. It...

For the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to be a success, it is necessary to understand farmers' decision-making and viewpoints beyond the assumptions made by neoclassical economics, because farmers'...