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Increased negative media attention has focused on the environmental impacts the fashion industry has on the natural environment, thereby calling for solutions, focused on clothing purchase, use and end‐of‐life treatment. This research explores the relationship between consumers and their clothing consumption (from purchase through to disposal), through the lens of life histories, and thus exploring what impacts on end‐of‐life clothes treatment. The novelty of this study lies within connecting fashion consumption practices with the self‐concept in the context of clothing consumption (pre‐ purchase through to disposal), from an individual's life history perspective. This qualitative enquiry utilised life histories, thereby conducting 20 in‐depth semi‐structured interviews that were analysed through a grounded approach. Findings indicate that fashion consumption is heavily influenced by an individual's “self”, in that those that have a positive perception of themselves have reduced shopping habits, whilst those with a negative perception increase them. Our results show that our participants go through various consumption practices (hoarder, oniomaniac, and “fashionista”) that co‐exist within them and are influenced by the individual's self. Our study calls for more intergenerational research exploring fashion consumption and disposal.

This chapter analyses tobacco marketing strategies in British India. It reasons that printed tobacco advertisements mirrored the colonial environment in which smoking took place characterised by struggles between ‘modernity’ against ‘tradition’ and ‘coloniser’ against ‘colonised’. The focus is on three smokes, i.e. one hand-rolled (the bidi) and two types of machine-rolled cigarettes. After a succinct outline of previous tobacco consumption practices the remaining chapter concentrates on the first half of the twentieth century when these three relatively new smoking practices also induced new forms of advertising. All three products, it is submitted, were outcomes of ‘modernity’. Placed within a climate increasingly characterised by demands for independence among Indians, these smoking habits required advertising strategies which aimed at making these modern commodities ‘Indian’ too. While the more expensive (white) cigarettes were cast as Imperial Indian modern products that went well with ‘western’ life styles, the cheaper type of (white) cigarettes were submitted to the public as modern but ‘national’ commodities, made in India by Indian workmen and using Indian tobacco. Advertisement and branding strategies followed a rationale termed in the chapter as ‘colonisation of the modern’ in the case of the more expensive cigarettes and ‘Indianisation of the modern’ in the case of cheaper brands. Yet, despite these efforts it was the extremely cheap bidi that became most popular among smokers in India. Bidis, it is argued were subjected to marketing strategies that aimed at ‘traditionalisation of the modern’.

Data have played an extensive role in sustainable HCI research by informing the impacts of our behavior on the environment and helping us make better environmental choices. However, in the area of sustainable food consumption and sustainable HCI, there is little investigation on the roles of food data for the design of technology. This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of sustainable-conscious individuals’ food data seeking experiences. Our results show the way in which the current food data is challenging our understanding of its environmental impacts, which concern data of availability, data representations, and data cultures. Drawing from Loukissas’ six critical data principles, we discuss how “locality” and "place" could cast a new insight on food and its sustainability. We also offer possible design directions for sustainable HCI technologies utilizing food data.

This article offers a geographical study of the culinary heritage of Tunisia, a North African country in the Maghreb region, whose economy is strongly supported by the tourism sector. Thanks to the crossing, on the one hand, of the perimeter of production and development of a culinary culture inked through the succession of civilizations throughout the history of the country and, on the other hand, of the perimeter encompassing the Maghrebis (Tunisians, Algerians, Libyans and the diaspora) who currently consume spicy dishes (which characterize Tunisian cuisine) on a daily basis, the article proposes to determine the Territory of Tunisian Culinary Heritage (TTCH). He The article also suggests studying the link between generic places of consumption (hotels, restaurants, food trucks, snack bar, home, etc.) and the dishes consumed by tourists on vacation. The link thus obtained will be studied in relation to daily consumption practices through cultural, economic, family, etc. dimensions. This reasoning will show that the consumption strategy while on vacation is inevitably linked to daily consumption practices of all the tourists studied, either in a logic of rupture or of continuity. To reach the conclusions proposed in this article, the methodology followed is based on diversified survey tools (quantitative and qualitative) and combined statistical analyses (pivot table and chi-square tests).

Bu araştırmanın amacı, Covid-19 salgını sürecinde orta sınıfa mensup bireylerin tüketim alışkanlıklarında ortaya çıkan değişimleri incelemek ve sosyolojik açıdan değerlendirmektir. Araştırmada nitel araştırma yöntemi kullanılmış olup, Nevşehir ilinde ikamet eden 15 Eskişehir ilinde ikamet eden 5 olmak üzere toplam 20 orta sınıfa mensup katılımcı ile derinlemesine görüşmeler gerçekleştirilerek veriler toplanmıştır. 2020 Mayıs ayı boyunca yapılan görüşmelerden elde edilen veriler tematik analiz tekniğiyle analiz edilmiştir. Analiz aşamasında elde edilen veriler kodlanarak çeşitli tema ve alt temalara ulaşılmıştır. Araştırmada elde edilen genel bulgulara göre orta sınıfa mensup bireylerin tüketim alışkanlıkları Covid-19 salgını sürecinde önemli ölçüde değişmiştir. Katılımcıların salgın öncesi tüketim pratiklerine bakıldığında en çok harcama alanlarının giyim kuşam, yeme içme ve tatil kalemlerinden oluştuğu ortaya çıkmaktadır. Ancak Covid-19 salgını başladıktan sonra alınan önlemler dolayısıyla bu harcama kalemlerinde tüketim eğiliminin azaldığı anlaşılmaktadır. Giyim kuşam tüketimi azalmış, dışarıda yeme-içme kültürü evde yemek yeme şekline dönüşmüş, tatil planları ertelenmiştir. Ayrıca virüs korkusu ile katılımcıların ödeme araçlarını değiştirdikleri nakit para yerine temassız kredi kartı kullanımını tercih ettikleri tespit edilmiştir. Yine salgın korkusu ile hijyen ve temizlik ürünleri kullanımı oldukça artmıştır. Bu süreçte özel gün kutlamaları ertelenmiş hediye alma ve verme ritüellerini değişmiştir. Salgın sürecinde konser, sergi, sinema vb. etkinliklerinin yapılamaması sonucu hissedilen kültürel tüketim boşluğu yerini sanal kültürel tüketim (sanal tiyatro, sinema, sanal sergi vb.) alışkanlıklarına bırakmıştır. Medyada reklamlar aracılığıyla sunulan sağlık ile ilgili takviye gıda ve vitamin ürünlerinin çok daha fazla dikkat çektiği ve tüketildiği de bulgular arasındadır. Alışveriş mekanlarına gitme oranlarının azaldığı bunun yerine internet alışverişlerinin arttığı ve sanal market uygulamalarının da eskiye oranla çok daha fazla kullanıldığı bulgularına ulaşılmıştır. Salgın bittikten sonra bazı tüketim alışkanlıklarının (evde yemek yapmak vb.) devam ettirilme isteği de dikkat çekmiştir. The aim of this research is to examine the changes arising from the consumption habits of the individuals belonging to the middle class and also to evaluate them sociologically. In the research qualitative methods were used, and defailed interviews were made with 20 participants from middle class living in Nevşehir and Eskişehir and then necessary data was collected. At the process of the analysis, various theme and sub-themes were reached by encoding the data obtained. According to the findings obtained at the research, consumption habits of the middle class individuals have changed highyl during the Covid-19 epidemic. Looking at the consumption practices of the participants before the epidemic, it was noticed that the highest spending areas included clothing, eating and travelling items. But it is understand that consumption tendency because of the preacautions takenafter the start of the epidemic. Additionally it was found that participants changed their way of paying, in spite of cash Money they preferred coing contactless credit card. Also using of hygiene and cleaning products highly increased with the fear of epidemic. In this porcess celebrating special dates were delayed, ritüel of giving and receiving gifts has changed. During the epidemic, because the activities such as been done, this cultural consumption gap has been replaced with the virtual theatre, cinema, virtual exhibition. It was also noticed that food supplement and vitamins advertised in the media have been popular and consumpted rather more. It was also seen that the rate of going to malls decreased, and instead of this shopping on the net and application for virtual markets have increased compared to before. After the end of the epidemic it has been noticed that some consumptıon habits have a tendency to go on (like cooking at home)

Live spectatorship and mediated sports consumption are two distinct, although intertwined, types of consumption practices. Based on this premise, this study examined the similarities and difference...

يهدف البحث الحالي إلي تحديد مستوي وعي معلمات الاقتصاد المنزلي بالتنمية المستدامة وتعرف العلاقة بين مستوي الوعي بمتطلبات التنمية المستدامه وممارسات المعلمات الاستهلاکية؛ ولذلک تم تطبيق مقياس الممارسات الاستهلاکية (اعداد الباحثة). وتکونت عينة البحث من (90) معلمة وموجهة اقتصاد منزلي بإدارتي بنها التعليمية وطنطا التعليمية ( شرق وغرب). وتوصل البحث إلي النتائج الآتية: أن مستــــوي الوعي بمتطلبات التنمية المستدامة علي المقياس ککل جاء بدرجة متوسطة حيث کان متوسط الاستجابات الکلية (2.23) وهو مستوي متوسط وفقا لجدول الأوزان النسبية علي مقياس ليکرت، وبالنسبة لکل مستوي من مستويات الوعي علي المقياس ککل يلاحظ أن الاستجابات الأکثر لعينة البحث علي مقياس الوعي ککل کانت بمستوي متوسط بعدد تکرارات (48) تکرار، بنسبة ( 53.3 % )، بينما جاء مستوي الوعي المنخفض في الترتيب الثاني بعدد تکرارات ( 24) تکرار بنسبة (26.7% )، وجاء مستوي الوعي المرتفع في المرتبة الأخيرة بعدد تکرارات ( 18) تکرار بنسبة (20% )، وهذا يشير بشکل عام إلي أن مستوي الوعي بمتطلبات التنمية المستدامة ککل لدي معلمات الاقتصاد المنزلي متوسط، کما أشارت النتائج الي أن مستوى الوعي الاقتصادي کان مرتفع بمتوسط مرجح ( 2.47 ) يلية مستوي الوعي الاجتماعي بمتوسط مرجح ( 2.29 ) ثم الوعي البيئي بمتوسط مرجح ( 1.97) وهما في مستوي متوسط ،وأشارت الي أن مستوي الممارسات الاستهلاکية لدي المعلمات علي المقياس ککل کانت جيدة بمتوسط مرجح ( 2.81 ) کما أوضحت النتائج وجود علاقة ارتباطية موجبة دالة احصائيا بين مستوي الوعي بمتطلبات التنمية المستدامة والممارسات الاستهلاکية للمعلمات؛ وأنه لا توجد فروق في مستوي الوعي بمتطلبات التنمية المستدامة بين افراد العينه يرجع لاختلاف مکان العمل أو الدرجة الوظيفية. The Awareness level of the Home Economics Female Teachers about the Sustainable Development Requirements and its Relation to their Consumption Practices Abstract The current research is aimed to determine the awareness level of the home economics teachers in sustainable development. Also aimed to identify the relationship between the awareness level of the sustainable development requirements and consumer practices. So the researcher applied the measure of consumer practices). The sample of the study consisted of (90) female teachers and directors of home economics in Banha and Tanta Education Department (East and West). The research showed that; the awareness level of the sustainable development requirements on the scale as a whole came with an average degree, where the average of the overall responses (2.23) and according to each level of awareness on the scale as a whole, it is noted that the most responses of the research sample on the awareness scale of the Sustainable development requirements was at an average level with the number of repetition (48) with (53.3%), while the low level of awareness came second in the number of repetition (24) with (26.7%), and the high level of awareness came last in the number of repetition (18) with (20%). This generally indicates that the awareness level of the sustainable development requirements as a whole has average home economics parameters, as the results showed a positive correlation statistically significant between the level of awareness of the sustainable development requirements and consumer practices for teachers, and that there are no differences in the level of awareness of the requirements of sustainable development among individuals of the sample Due to the difference in workplace or job grade.

This paper aims to critically appraise the incorporation of opium poppy into medical practice in Song-dynasty China. By analysing materia medica and formularies, along with non-medical sources from the Song period, this study sheds light on the role of Chinese Buddhist monasteries in the process of incorporation of foreign plants into Chinese medicine. It argues that Buddhist monasteries played a significant role in the evolution of the use of opium poppy in Song dynasty medicine. This is because the consumption practices in Buddhist monasteries inspired substantial changes in the medical application of the flower during the Southern Song dynasty. While, at the beginning of Song dynasty, court scholars incorporated opium poppy into official materia medica in order to treat disorders such as huangdan and xiaoke, as well as cinnabar poisoning, this study of the later Song medical treatises shows how opium poppy was repurposed to treat symptoms such as diarrhoea, coughing and spasms. Such a shift in the medical use of the poppy occurred after Chinese literati and doctors became acquainted with the role of the flower in the diet and medical practices of Buddhist monks across China. Therefore, the case study of the medical application of opium poppy during the Song dynasty provides us with insights into how the spread of certain practices in Buddhist monasteries might have contributed to the change in both professional medical practices and daily-life healthcare in local communities in that period.

With an increasing range of products in global and local markets, more options are available for individuals to enhance their image and their (cognitive, social and physical) performance. These ‘performance consumptions’ relate to ideals of well‐being and improvement, and are based on constructed desires, expectations and needs that go beyond the (often blurred) dichotomy of health and illness. Drawing from mixed‐methods research in Maputo, Mozambique, this paper discusses individuals’ use of medicines and other substances – pharmaceuticals, food supplements, traditional herbs, cosmetics and energy drinks – for managing different aspects of their everyday lives. Through an overview of the main consumption practices, we explore the underlying purposes and strategies of users, and the perceived legitimacy and risks involved when using a variety of products accessible through formal and informal exchange channels. From tiredness to sexual and aesthetic management, we show how the body becomes the locus of experimentation and investment to perform in accordance with socially expected roles, individual aspirations and everyday tasks. With insights from individuals’ accounts in Maputo, we aim to add to discussions on pharmaceuticalisation of body management by showing how the emergence of new performance consumptions is articulated with the reconfiguration of more ‘traditional’ consumption practices. info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Luxury branding has received much attention from marketing and consumer research scholars. Yet, research into how consumers themselves shape luxury brand meanings is underdeveloped. Following the resurgence of the application of theories of social practices in consumer research, we offer a novel and comprehensive typology of luxury consumption practices. In doing so, we shed light on how personalized meanings of brand luxury are emerging in the private sphere of everyday life, as luxury consumers integrate various materials, meanings, and competencies within their practice performances. The findings provide important insights for both scholars and practitioners in developing a more holistic understanding of the multi-dimensionality and fluidity of luxury brand meanings in the context of contemporary consumer culture.

As reducing firewood intensity per household and increasing the uptake of LPG is central to the energy policy agenda of Ghana, firewood collection, consumption practices and barriers to the uptake of modern fuels among rural households in Ghana were investigated. An interview-based questionnaire was administered to 540 rural household heads in 32 communities in four different ecological zones. Whereas the ecological location of households was the most significant factor influencing daily firewood consumption per capita, the effect of household size on firewood consumption was ecological location dependent. The propensity for small households to adopt modern fuels such as LPG is greater than the larger ones. Females were found to collect firewood from sites farther away from their homestead suggesting that rural females are burdened when there is firewood scarcity and this could compromise their ability to engage in income generating activities. The heating values of the most firewood species used by households were in the range 14.79MJkg–1–18.75 MJkg–1. Cost, accessibility, and safety were the major barriers to modern fuels uptake. Rural energy policy should thus respond to these barriers by enforcing regulations and improving supply and distribution networks of LPG.

An ethnographic approach to consumption practices of upper-class young-adult women in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, shows how shopping and selling experiences are seen as opportunities for owners, staff, and customers to build social relations. As a consequence, the belt of trust that is built through such transactions creates a network of stores, women, brands, and goods attached by strong reciprocity ties. This also produces a distinction between shops that are “cozy,” and the ones that are bureaucratic and “open to everyone.” Among such practices, informants reproduce the particular Brazilian rite of asking “Do you know who you are talking to?” to reinforce local social hierarchies and distinctions, a rite that was previously analyzed by the anthropologist Roberto DaMatta. While consumption practices are often seen as some sort of North Americanization of the world, we argue for the importance of ethnographic accounts that map local forms of appropriation and particular power dynamics.

This study examines the shifting patterns in meal consumption practices among Canadians and the sources of disruption of meal habits. It analyses the notion of breakfast, lunch, dinner, out-of-hous...

Summary: Background: Frequency of nuts consumption has shown positive results, as preventive practices, on chronic diseases – such results were reviewed by recent epidemiological studies. There was also the emphasis on the intake pattern of nuts consumption with respect to encourage eating them. The objective of this study is to quantify and assess nuts intake, the average portion size against the percentage of consumers, mean grams eaten amongst subjects, and reporting the intake of nuts consumed as whole (raw, fried and roasted) or derived hidden sources. Finally, this work also aims to identify the predictors (attitudes, preferences and barriers) of nuts consumption. Data was obtained from a questionnaire on dietary nuts intake collected from 200 healthy adult students in the University of Jordan. The five nuts types under test were: cashew, almond, pine, pistachio and peanut. In general, the consumption of total nuts was lower than expected. Gender, BMI (body mass index), smoking and taking supplements, all have had a significant impact on the consumption of particular types of nuts (p value

Raw milk is a common component of agropastoralist diet in The Gambia. Characterization of raw milk consumption and handling practices in the country is limited, as is knowledge of bacterial contamination of raw milk sold by herdsmen or at informal markets, which may impact food safety and consumer health. We conducted a two part study in Gambia to comprehensively address these research gaps. In Study A, mixed interviews were conducted with herdsmen (n = 12) and market vendors (n = 31) in order to characterize milk intake and handling. The results showed that raw milk is a regular component of the diet of herdsmen, vendors, and their young children, with 25% of herdsmen and 41.9% of vendors introducing raw milk into their infant's diet before 3 months of age. Only 7.0% of interviewees were observed cleaning milk vessels before use, and 93% stored milk only in ambient temperatures. Study B documented visible impurities (e.g., hair, dirt, insects) and assessed the presence of potentially pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae in raw cow's milk (n = 53) from farms and informal markets upon collection (t = 0) and after 24 h (t = 24) in ambient temperature, which reflects local storage conditions. Visible impurities were present in 58.5% of milk samples. Enterobacteriaceae concentrations were >104 CFU/mL in 92.5% and 96% of t = 0 and t = 24 milk samples respectively, and were therefore considered unsafe for human consumption. This research concludes that raw milk, especially as a weaning food in this region, requires greater attention as the prevalence of contamination threatens food safety for infants and other consumers.

The fashion industry is responsible for bringing some of the worst consumption practices out of individuals by reinforcing tendencies for overconsumption throughout society. Consuming too much has led to negative economic, societal, and environmental consequences. The purpose of this paper is to understand whether promoting a style orientation among consumers (rather than a fashion orientation) will lead to more sustainable apparel consumption. Data collected from 6,386 consumers across five countries that are considered to be leaders in sustainable development (Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S.) suggest that promoting style can be a potential solution to attain slow fashion and, thus, improve sustainable apparel consumption. We further examine the role of hedonism and materialism in influencing sustainable practices in the industry. Based on the findings, the paper emphasizes the need for the collective effort of different actors, especially the role of government, in creating a more sustainable fashion system.

This article explores consumption practices in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow (1983) and Helen Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House (2007), which it reads as a macroeconomic critique. This critique repositions “diaspora” as a concept with a distinctive lineage in modern and contemporary migration literary narratives that articulate alternative models of economic exchange through representations of food and eating. In my reading, diaspora is not only a sociological group orientation or a conceptual lens on the interiorized subjectivity arising from involuntary migration; it is also a set of alternative economic practices that confront global commodity culture through quotidian acts of consumption. Marshall and Oyeyemi both employ the literary device of “enchanted consumption” to contest the premise of consumer passivity found in traditional models of commodity fetishism. Enchanted consumption accomplishes this by overlying global material exchange networks, local embodied consumption practices, and generic alternations between realism and fabulism. When read together, these three elements in particular suggest an under-examined economic dimension of diaspora that challenges dominant systems of valuation and exchange through the enactment of alternative gift economies. More specifically, Marshall and Oyeyemi depict black female characters struggling with choices about foodstuffs. This specificity is important, as it suggests that enchanted consumption derives most directly from the experiences of women in African diasporic culture. By including food in the constellation of other concerns faced by these women (domestic labour and childbirth, in particular) and, further, by understanding their consumption of food as a critical commentary on exchange systems, these authors disclose how the deeply personal consumption acts of black diasporic women advance an embodied critique of transnational capitalism that connects the globally dispersed sites of diaspora through local, gift-oriented approaches to food.

Before the arrival of the Spanish, Andean populations were in the process of redefining their own community and ethnic identities following incorporation into the Inka Empire. During the Inka period (1450–1532 CE), new domestic spaces were built in the highland region of Huarochiri. However, this change did not imply a substantial transformation of domestic life or consumption practices. Through archaeological excavations, architectural, ceramic, and zooarchaeological spatial analysis, we argue that everyday domestic life in Ampugasa was not strongly impacted by the Inka presence. Rather, architectural changes and domestic consumption patterns were built upon local practices already existing in Huarochiri.

This Special Issue seeks to contribute to the debate around less resource-intensive sustainable diets demonstrating just how critical a social science perspective is in problematising and enriching the terms of that debate. There is general consensus that the global dietary transition towards westernized diets with high intakes of meat, refined fats, sugar and salt are unhealthy for people and the planet. Healthier and more sustainable diets are widely recognised as necessary to mitigate climate change, reduce the pressure on natural resources including aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and lower the global burden of disease. This editorial introduction presents eight articles selected from papers presented at the Conference ‘Sustainable Food Systems Sustainable Diets’ held in October 2019 at The American University of Rome. Representing a diverse range of social science perspectives, the articles demonstrate the complexity in developing a shared understanding of what constitutes healthy and sustainable diets and which are likely to be inherently inter-connected with regenerative agriculture and sustainable food systems. To different degrees the articles also reflect upon policy experiences to date and identify obstacles to the introduction of measures that would facilitate changes in consumption practices. Demonstrating the vital role of critical social analysis in deepening our understanding of the institutional, social, and cultural dimensions of food systems, this Special Issue will fill an important gap in the literature around sustainable diets., The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 27 No. 1 (2021): Special Issue

The article focuses on the Neapolitan neighbourhood of Vomero, whose most recent transformations can be effectively read through the lenses of retail and consumption geography. In greater detail, the evolution of the neighbourhood will be briefly outlined through a long-lasting look on its retail change, from its urbanization to the current configuration of a fabric modified by new consumption practices, in turn generated by the different demands of (old and new) inhabitants and users. The fieldwork research, which took place on a selected core-area and was articulated into various moments – site visits, with the emotions and perceptions they aroused; mapping, to reconstruct the spatial organisation of retail and entertainment activities; in-depth interviews with privileged witnesses; analysis of local commercial policies – will allow to exemplify how the neighbourhood escapes the simplicity of some urban thesis on local-global dialectic. Even in a micro-space which has been the symbol of innovation and separation from the rest of Naples, the commercial core is disputed among various actors. At the scale of the polarizing nodes of the neighbourhood, the retail changes and the consumption practices – although not induced by top-down project or branding policies – highlight new tensions between forms of innovation and of embeddedness.

It is uncertain how the traditional forest sector can respond to the changing political environment, evolving markets, and global environmental problems. This study focuses on the development of forest-based bioeconomy (BE) in Finland from the perspective of three forest-based value networks (wooden multistory construction, fiber-based packaging, and biorefining) and thus breaks the tendency of siloed discussions. The study of expert opinions applies a collaborative interdisciplinary research method that combines group discussions and follow-up survey data. The results indicate that transformational regulation, proper incentives, and ways of increasing interaction at the business-consumer interface are required to support the creation of new practices and the destruction of old practices in the industry renewal. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Ready-to-use-therapeutic-foods (RUTF) was designed for the nutritional management of children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) treated as outpatients. However, to our knowledge, no study has evaluated the availability, use and consumption of RUTF within the beneficiary household in programs and in the context of a reduction in the dose of RUTF. This study, assessed the effect of a reduction in RUTF dose on the availability, use, consumption, and perceptions of caregivers on RUTF prescribed to 516 children treated for SAM, aged 6–59 months in Burkina Faso. Children received a weekly dose of RUTF according to their treatment arm until recovery. Data were collected by structured individual in-depth interviews, with caregivers one month and two months post-admission. Differences between children receiving reduced RUTF (intervention arm) and those receiving standard RUTF (control arm) were assessed by Poisson, logistic, and ordered logistic regression model. RUTF was available for the whole week in 95% in intervention arm compared to about 98% in control arm (p > 0.05). Starting from week 3 onwards, children in intervention arm consumed an average of 9 sachets of RUTF per week compared to 15 sachets in control arm (p < 0.001) and 5% of children in intervention arm reported leftover compared to 11% in control arm (p < 0.05). About 40% of children in intervention arm consumed RUTF at least 3-times per day compared to 82% in control arm (p < 0.001). The amount of RUTF prescribed was perceived as sufficient in 93% by caregivers in intervention arm against 97% in control arm (p > 0.05). In conclusion, reducing the dose of RUTF did not affect the availability of RUTF during treatment but did reduce leftover and the frequency of consumption of RUTF.

This research draws on protection motivation theory, temporal construal theory, and self‐determination theory to understand consumption practices during a pandemic crisis by looking at the narratives of British consumers during the COVID‐19 crisis. A two‐stage design is adopted: the first stage adopts an exploratory strategy to identify consumption‐related themes using netnography, while the second stage explores these themes further to gain a deeper insight through 13 semi‐structured interviews. Three themes emerge relating to different aspects of consumption practices. These themes are found to link to the self‐control research area and include consumers' self‐control changing their shopping behaviour, having less self‐control over unhealthy snack consumption and having less self‐control concerning alcohol. These lead to changes in other consumption practices, including store format and type of shopping. Different initiatives are discussed to help retailers retain their new lockdown customers to help manufacturers provide healthier options and to help weight management businesses and the National Health Service reduce unhealthy consumption habits.

This empirical study incorporates social space and gender into consumer behaviour research to explore consumer identities and consumption practices within the UK spa marketplace. The paper contends that the relationship between gender, consumption and space is intertwined and reciprocal. Semi-structured interviews with ten men who visit spas reveal that spas influence the construction of men’s consumer identities in multiple ways through empowerment, struggle and resistance that exist in the social spa space. The proposed theoretical framework reflects the dynamics between space, men’s consumer identities and their consumption habits. The perceived, conceived and lived experiences that emerge through the data suggest that spas can transform into a gender-inclusive marketplace.

Today, the world is facing natural resources and environmental crises. The actual consumption practices in different industries are linear and wasteful, which means that resources are extracted, transformed, consumed, and discarded. The generated waste results in pollution and becomes unmanageable. For this, new concepts have appeared like the circular economy which involves sorting and recycling. Governments have noticed the benefit of the circular economy and this is reflected in laws and policies that have seen the development of eco-material production strategies from industrial waste or natural waste such as dredged sediments. In Algeria, while waste management has evolved in the scientific, technical, and implementation fields, the concept of the circular economy still needs to be enhanced and developed. More comprehensive evaluations need to be carried out, as the United Nations calls it in its sustainable development goals. In this paper, an overview was achieved to shed light on the issues and prospects of optimal waste management and the circular economy development, in Algeria.

Актуальность. Работа обращает внимание на проблемы формирования практик потребления в старшем возрасте как быстрорастущего рыночного сегмента (темп прироста, по данным Всемирного банка, − 3 % в год). Цель − выявить тенденции изменения потребительского поведения в условиях социальных ограничений и определить доступность новых цифровых социальных сервисов для пожилых людей. Методы: в качестве эмпирической базы используются данные социологических опросов, проведенных в ноябре 2020 г. (N=60) и в марте-апреле 2021 г. (N=400; 55+) на территории Томской области. В результате установлено, что низкая потребительная способность влияет на формирование практик потребления. Выявлен институциональный разрыв высоких потребностей в социальных услугах и низкого спроса на созданные социальные сервисы. Выводы: практики потребления в старшем возрасте гетерогенны, значительное влияние оказывают дефицит финансовых ресурсов и ценностные установки помощи ближнему кругу, возникают стратегии экономии на самом необходимом. Субъективная оценка респондентов институтов социальной поддержки крайне низкая. Выявлено, что только в сфере социальной помощи создаются новые практики дистанционного взаимодействия на основе цифровизации сервисов социальных услуг. Практики дистанционного обращения за материальной или медицинской помощью не сформировались. Доверие к институту государственной поддержки крайне низкое, новые цифровые сервисы не оказывают существенного влияния на поддержание уровня и качества жизни в условиях социальных ограничений старшей возрастной группы. Relevance. The work draws attention to the problems of the formation of consumption practices in old age as a fast-growing market segment (the growth rate according to the World Bank is 3 % per year). The aim is to identify trends in consumer behavior in conditions of social restrictions and to determine the availability of new digital social services for the elderly. Methods. The data from sociological surveys conducted in November 2020 (N=60) and in March-April 2021 (N=400, 55+) in the Tomsk region are used as an empirical base. As a result, we established that low consumption capacity affects the formation of consumption practices. The institutional gap has been revealed between high needs for social services and low demand for created social services. Conclusions. Consumption practices in older age are heterogeneous, a significant impact is exerted by a shortage of financial resources and values of helping the inner circle, strategies for saving on the most necessary are formed. The subjective assessment of respondents of social support institutions is extremely low. It is revealed that only in the field of social assistance new practices of remote interaction are being formed on the basis of digitalization of social services. The practice of remote treatment for material or medical care has not been identified. Trust in the institution of state support is extremely low, new digital services do not have a significant impact on maintaining the level and quality of life in conditions of social restrictions of the older age group.

The Central Forest Spine (CFS) complex in Peninsular Malaysia supports two indigenous sub-tribes — the Semoq Beri and Bateq. Opportunistic ethnobotanical fieldwork and observation were conducted to document the utilisation of forest plant resources by these two tribes. More than 30 species of plants, which are used as food, ornament, herbs, alternative water source and craft, were documented. The grooming practice using plant parts is unique to the Bateq and Semoq Beri sub-tribes. Plant tubers (ubi in Malay) should be examined further for food security and conservation purposes. The consumption practices by the Orang Asli in the tropical rain forest of Kelantan and Terengganu for their livelihood are ecologically sustainable.

Objective. Mothers are exposed to various functional food components, including probiotics, which have a direct effect on the quality of their breast milk. Probiotics enhance the microbial composition of breast milk, making it more beneficial for the infant’s gut health. This study aimed to explore the extent of knowledge and dietary practices on probiotics among low- to middle-income healthy Filipino mothers in an urban area.Methods. Data was gathered using three focus group discussions (FGD) participated in by low- to middle-income healthy Filipino mothers residing in Barangays West Rembo and Rizal in Makati City, Philippines. Prior to the FGD, preliminary interviews of selected participants and market surveys were done to determine the food items to be included in the FGD questionnaire.Results. A total of 19 mothers participated in the FGDs. The most common probiotic sources identified were yogurt, fermented milk product (Yakult), miso and tausi. The most consumed probiotic source was fermented milk product (94.7% of participants), at least once a month; followed by powdered milk (78.9%), consumed daily. The most commonly reported influence for consumption of these food items was advertisements from television (89.5%). About 53% of the participants related probiotics to better digestion and increased immunity as heard from advertisements and through counselling by physicians. When asked to elaborate on how probiotics influence digestion and immunity, almost all participants had difficulty explaining the benefits.Conclusion. Although majority of the participants consumed food sources of probiotics, they had limited knowledge on its other non-food sources and benefits. In addition, the consumed food source was confined to the food item that was most advertised on television. Thus, there is a need for health and nutrition experts to exert a stronger influence in the community by disseminating information regarding probiotics.

The results in this note are mainly based on data from a nationally representative survey conducted in December 2020 - February 2021. SIFO regularly conducts consumption surveys (SIFO surveys) which provide large amounts of data on various aspects of consumption, including consumers' attitudes, knowledge and practices. In this note, we have highlighted data that can tell something about how the corona pandemic affected consumption in Norway in 2020.

Altres ajuts: El projecte "Los cambios en los usos del tiempo y la transformación de los hábitos cotidianos" ha estat cofinançat per l'Ajuntament de Barcelona (Exp 2019/280). El presente artículo se interroga por el impacto de género de algunas de las trasformaciones que acarrea la llamada cuarta revolución industrial en el trabajo doméstico. En concreto, se fija en la dimensión simbólica del uso y la distribución del tiempo que se dedica a las tareas relacionadas con la compra y preparación de los alimentos. La hipótesis de partida sustenta que, más allá de la innovación tecnológica, la disminución del tiempo dedicado a las tareas culinarias que evidencian las estadísticas responde al cambio de hábitos cotidianos y modelo de consumo. A modo de exploración, se propone una estrategia metodológica cualitativa centrada en la experiencia cotidiana y el sentido atribuido a las tareas domésticas según el género, el ciclo vital y la clase social. Como conclusión, se apunta que en el trasfondo de la menor dedicación de tiempo a la cocina emergen nuevos hábitos caracterizados por dedicar más tiempo a la compra de alimentos y menos a su preparación. En cualquier caso, parece que dichos hábitos siguen representando más trabajo para las mujeres según sus condiciones estructurales. This paper analyses the gender impact of the fourth industrial revolution on domestic work. It focuses on the symbolic dimension of time use related to the set of cooking tasks. The main hypothesis argues that, beyond technological innovation, the decrease in time devoted to cooking evidenced by the statistics responds to the change in daily habits and consumption model. To explore this question, the paper presents a qualitative methodological strategy to analyse the everyday experience and the meaning attributed to housework tasks according to gender, life cycle and social class. Preliminary results show that decrease of cooking tasks emerge new daily habits characterized by spending more time buying food and less time preparing it. The paper concludes that these daily habits continue to represent more work for women according to their structural conditions.

To explore the possible emergence and lived consequences of social inequality in the Atacama, we analyzed a large set (n = 288) of incredibly well preserved and contextualized human skeletons from the broad Middle Period (AD 500–1000) of the San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) oases. In this work, we explore model-based paleodietary reconstruction of the results of stable isotope analysis of human bone collagen and hydroxyapatite. The results of this modeling are used to explore local phenomena, the nature of the Middle Period, and the interaction between local situations and the larger world in which the oases were enmeshed by identifying the temporal, spatial, and biocultural correlates and dimensions of dietary difference. Our analyses revealed that: 1) over the 600-year period represented by our sample, there were significant changes in consumption patterns that may evince broad diachronic changes in the structure of Atacameño society, and 2) at/near 600 calAD, there was a possible episode of social discontinuity that manifested in significant changes in consumption practices. Additionally, while there were some differences in the level of internal dietary variability among theayllus, once time was fully considered, none of theayllusstood out for having a more (or less) clearly internally differentiated cuisine. Finally, sex does not appear to have been a particularly salient driver of observed dietary differences here. While we do not see anyde factoevidence for complete dietary differentiation (as there is always overlap in consumption among individuals,ayllus, and time periods, and as isotopic analysis is not capable of pinpointing different foods items or preparations), there are broad aspects of dietary composition changing over time that are potentially linked to status, and foreignness. Ultimately, these stand as the clearest example of what has been termed “gastro-politics,” potentially tied to the emergence of social inequality in the San Pedro oases.

We present a game designed with the specific purpose of transferring non-trivial knowledge about sustainable food production and consumption practices. The game simulation has been designed as an interactive infographic with a double impact: besides the obvious purpose of knowledge transfer we also wanted to provide users with a visceral visualization that at a glance can capture in detail the state of the system so it can represent the consequences of each player choice. This visualization tries to be aligned with the tenets of data humanism, "ready to question the impersonality of a merely technical approach to data and to begin designing ways to connect numbers to what they really stand for: knowledge, behaviors, people"[10]. In this article we show evidence of successful knowledge transfer as well as a detailed description of how the visualization functions.

Camelids have long played a key role in assessing the economies of Andean groups, not least in discussions of key anthropological themes such as domestication, diet, exchange, and verticality. Most discussions have focused on human intervention in animal use—most commonly how animals are incorporated and used by humans in their economic worlds. In this paper, I want to shift emphasis and examine how camelids came to be part of a mutually constitutive socio-cultural system. Two faunal assemblages (one from a small village and the other a major fortified center) and art imagery are assessed to describe the uptake of intensive camelid herding/consumption practices in the Recuay culture (c. AD 1-700) and the dramatic cultural transformations that ensued. At the same time that hunting diminished greatly, the faunal materials indicate increasing reliance on camelids in diverse residential food practices, corporate feasts, and fiber production. Just as important, camelids become the signal expression of the emerging wealth and status of nobles, which drive the production of effigy ceramics, figurines, and camelid fiber garments. Rather than being epiphenomenal to social change, camelids were therefore active elements, indeed co-participants, which shaped the look and reproduction of an ancient Andean society.

Deliberate technology phase-out is being recognised as a viable policy option to weaken incumbent socio-technical configurations. At the same time, phase-out as a phenomenon has not been the focus of much attention in innovation studies and science and technology studies, where interest in emergence of technologies dominates. This is puzzling because phase-outs of socio-technical configurations are real-world phenomena. We propose a conceptual framework to study the dynamics of phase-outs of socio-technical configurations drawing from social practice theory which offers specific, nuanced, yet simple heuristics to trace the multifaceted character of socio-technical configurations. We explore an historical case of an incomplete phase-out by revisiting cloud seeding technology in the US. We show how the incomplete phase-out of cloud seeding was reflected in incomplete disruption of linkages between the material, cognitive and symbolic elements of the configuration. This case shows how a technology once considered problematic can resurface and regain legitimacy.

La música popular ha ocupado un lugar relevante en la historia del documental. Un grupo numeroso de documentales se ha dedicado a la trayectoria profesional y privada de los músicos, figuras que encaran el desgaste de las giras, de las drogas, etc., mientras que otro grupo enfoca su atención en las prácticas de consumo de la música popular (aficionados, fans). El documental costarricense ofrece manifestaciones de ambas vertientes, en el marco de la modernidad centroamericana: la redención de un grupo de rock and roll, después del viaje a los infiernos de las drogas y el alcohol, en Los Vargas Brothers, y el consumo (baile) de un género considerado marginal por mucho tiempo, el swing criollo, en Se prohíbe bailar suin. La cultura popular urbana costarricense queda representada en ambos documentales. In documentary history, popular music has had a relevant place. A large group of documentaries is dedicated to the professional and private trajectory of musicians, dealing with exhaustion from touring, as well as drug consumption, etc., while another group focuses its attention on the consumption practices of popular music (fans). Costa Rican documentaries show examples from both venues, in the frame of Central American modernity: the redemption of a rock and roll band, after their journey to drugs and alcohol, in Los Vargas Brothers, and the consumption (dance) of a genre considered marginal for a long time, the ‘swing criollo’, in Se prohíbe bailar suin. Costa Rican urban popular culture is represented in both documentaries. Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica Universidad de Costa Rica Sede Regional Chorotega