| dc.description.abstract | With the growing world population and increasing consumption of natural resources, there is also a significant amount of food wasted. At the same time, people suffer from hunger. This shows that the current food system does not only fail to feed those who are hungry, but it also wastes food that could have been eaten. Food surplus redistribution could be a solution, as it moves along food to food insecure people that would have been otherwise wasted. Yet, food redistribution initiatives may be prone to failure as grassroots initiative or as a business. Thus, in order for these initiatives to exist and positively impact food waste and hunger issues, a better understanding is needed on what factors influence success or failure. Accordingly, this research asks: What factors influence the success and failure of food redistribution initiatives in Bogotá? Through quantitative inductive research, the factors that can lead to success or failure have been identified, as well as the objective and subjective degree of success of the initiatives. A policy analysis has been carried out as well, to understand the policy impact on the initiatives. Success has been operationalized in both subjective and objective measures, to give deeper insights on what is successful in hard facts and what an initiate’s founder perceives as successful. All initiatives were considered objectively successful, and they perceive their subjective success differently. Factors to success that were present in the quite successful initiatives are collaborations, long-term funding, resources, capital investments, supply and demand, and competition. The current Colombian policies intend to attack food waste, yet fail to reach all sorts of food redistribution initiatives and do not enforce the policies properly. | |
