سلوك الريفيات المتعلق بالحد من الهدر الغذائي المنزلي في بعض قرى بنجر السكر محافظة الإسكندرية

الملخص EN

This research aimed to identify rural women behavior level concerning of reducing household food waste as a dependent variable and its correlation relationship with some rural women respondents distinguished characteristics as independent variables, also to identify their information sources about reducing household food waste.

Data were collected through personal interview questionnaire from a systematic random sample amounted to 154 rural women respondents in some villages in Bangar El Soker district , Alexandria Governorate.

Frequencies, percentages, person and Spearman simple correlation coefficients and Chi square were used to analyse data and show the results.

The results revealed that: - 48% of respondents were found in the low level category of reducing household food waste.

- 50% of respondents were found in the moderate ( middle) level category of reducing household food waste ,while only 1.3% of them were found in the high level category .

- There was a positive significant relationship between the respondent's behaviour of reducing household food waste as a dependent variable and both of respondent's job , respondent's husbands job , breeding domestic poultry, type of farm land holding and food purchasing places as independent variables at level of significance 0.01 - There was a positive significant relationship between the respondent's behavior of reducing household food waste as a dependent variable and type of respondent's family as independent variable at level of significance 0.05 - According to the respondent's information sources about reducing household food waste the results revealed that : Mothers were come in the first rank (42.2%) , relatives come in the second rank (22.62%) , respondent's neighbors come in the third rank ( 22.07%) ,television come in the fourth rank (18.18%) ,then the internet come in the fifth rank (12.98%)