AbstractAround 1.3 billion tons of the total food production and land that also use to produce food
is 0.9 million hectares was wasted every year. This is become a problem that has not yet
been resolved. One of the way to reduce food waste is covert into fertilizer. Therefore, the
purpose of this study to examine knowledge, attitude and perceive behavior towards small
scale farmers’ inattention in applying food waste as fertilizer by adopting Theory Planned
Behavior and Knowledge Attitude Practice Model. A field of survey was used; out of 450
survey distributed, only 370 small scale farmers responded to the questionnaire, were
identified using purposive sampling and analysed through SPSS, IBM-AMOS and PLSSEM.
The result found that the fitness indices met the acceptance level using Modification
Indices (MI) (CFI= 0.933; TLI=0.908; RMSEA=0.08). Result indicated that the initial model
was partially supported where attitude, subjective norm and behavior were significantly
predicted fa.....