2023 Volume 53 Issue 2 Pages 119-132
In recent years, food loss has been regarded as an important problem worldwide that adversely affects society and the environment. Reducing food loss is also one of the goals of SDGs:“Sustainable Consumption and Production.” Due to policy and institutional factors for producers and related industries, safety required by consumers, and food shipping standards, it is generally difficult to reduce business food losses immediately. On the other hand, reduction of household food loss is considered easy to realize because it is influenced by consumer awareness and behavior.
Therefore, the purpose of this study was to clarify the cognitive status of food loss for junior high school students, and to explore the effect of organizational learning by games suitable for each developmental stage on cognition of food loss and habit formation. Specifically, we clarified the recognition status of food loss among junior high school students through a questionnaire survey, and the relationship between goal intention and action intention for food loss reduction by introducing covariance structure analysis. In addition, we verifiedy the effect of organizational learning by games according to the developmental stage by questionnaire surveys. The results of the empirical study revealed that organizational learning through educational games can transform tacit knowledge for food waste reduction to explicit knowledge, and bring about changes in the surrounding environment. Therefore, if stakeholders cooperate with each other, food loss can be expected to be reduced.
JEL Classifications:Q1
