Rebound effects of food waste prevention: Environmental impacts.

Food waste prevention across the food supply chain has been addressed by the European Union (EU) as the top priority to reduce farm-to-fork impacts. Despite the environmental benefits of food waste prevention are widely acknowledged, life cycle assessments usually do not account for rebound effects, the inclusion of which may decrease or even cancel out the expected environmental savings. Rebound effects are understood as the re-spending of accrued monetary savings, determined by the implementation of food waste prevention initiatives, either on the same product (i.

Bridging between economy-wide activity and household-level consumption data: Matrices for European countries.

This dataset represents bridging matrices between two different data classification systems: consumption by purpose (COICOP) and products by activity (CPA). While the former classification is used in household budget and expenditure surveys, the latter represents the industry sector dimension that is typically adopted in national accounts and input-output tables. We collect input data from Eurostat on total household consumption for 35 COICOP and 63 CPA categories for the year 2015.