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Sustainable food consumption practices: Insights into consumers’ experiences
Full text linkIn recent years, the increasing consumer concern towards food safety, environmental
sustainability and social justice issues have stimulated new consumption practices more
oriented towards social, economic, and environmental sustainability [1–3].
This includes the growing consumers’ preference for organic food, local food,
and other sustainable food and beverage consumption (Contribution 1) [ 4], as well as
the spread of alternative distribution chains, which emphasise the importance of local
food productions [ 5 ], the short-distance transportation of food, and the direct relationship
between consumers and producers, although, as Kwil and colleagues (Contribution 2)
highlighted in this Special Issue, “local” is still an ambiguous term in the food domain.
Relatively to organic consumption, which represents one of the prominent examples of
sustainable consumption practices, Rizzo, and colleagues (Contribution 3) emphasized,
in this Special Issue, how the growing consumers’ interest in organic products is not only
due to their desire to protect the environment or sustain rural areas, but the perceived
positive impact on human health of organic food consumption has been shown as the main
driver of consumer preferences for organic extra-virgin olive oil. The preference for health
the attribute has also been highlighted by Butcher and colleagues (Contribution 4), as well as
by Buth and colleagues (Contribution 5), among Romanian urban consumers of ecological
food products, and by Nagy-Pércsi and Fogarassy (Contribution 6) for organic consumers
in the Hungarian market. In addition, Testa and colleagues (Contribution 7) showed that
the trend toward the preference for the health attribute also involved the consumer’s
convenient orientation and is not linked only to green products. In particular, the authors
also found that the category of ready-to-eat products, especially fresh-cut fruits, is affected
by health-conscious consumers
Measuring the quality conventions and consumer choice in short supply chains
No full textTheories and Empirical Applications on Policy and Governance of Agri-food Value Chain
Opening the black box of food quality in the short supply chain: Effects of conventions of quality on consumer choice
No full textIn recent years new forms of food distribution organisation, known as short supply chains, have gained ground. The local nature of such distribution has positive effects on the environment and on the local economy. Consumers appear to trust the short supply chain, and it has achieved considerable success. However, the short supply chain has credence characteristics which, by their very nature, cannot be identified through a system of certification. The question we address in this paper is whether it is possible to identify the constituent elements of the credence trait in relation to food quality in the short supply chain. Our hypothesis is that the latter are linked to a range of socially constructed food quality criteria. To develop a more inclusive vision of how such criteria are coordinated in food quality assessment by consumers, use has been made of convention theory. In accordance with convention theory, quality is identified, in a social context and informally, as one of the spheres in which economic activity is regulated by procedures which go beyond regulation by price. The aim of our study was to measure the effects of coordinated conventions of quality in the context of one type of short supply chain: farmers’ markets specialised in the sale of organic products. An ordered logit model was implemented. Our results allow credence characteristics to be classified within conventions of quality and could help support strategies aimed at spreading sustainable forms of food distribution and consumption. Future research might go to the direction of validating our results based on a single form of supply organisation. Moreover, additional efforts should be made understanding the effect of situational factors on socio-demographic variables such as gender. Finally, an attempt should be made to merge different theories to better understand the issue of consumer choice
Filiera corta e consumatore critico: il caso delle fiere del biologico in Sicilia
No full textStudio di filiero e consumo di credence goo
Sustainability and New Models of Consumption: The Equitable Purchase Groups in Sicily
No full textInnovation in Food Network
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Opening the black box of food quality in the short supply chain: Effects of conventions of quality on consumer choice
No full textIn recent years new forms of food distribution organisation, known as short supply chains, have gained ground. The local nature of such distribution has positive effects on the environment and on the local economy. Consumers appear to trust the short supply chain, and it has achieved considerable success. However, the short supply chain has credence characteristics which, by their very nature, cannot be identified through a system of certification. The question we address in this paper is whether it is possible to identify the constituent elements of the credence trait in relation to food quality in the short supply chain. Our hypothesis is that the latter are linked to a range of socially constructed food quality criteria. To develop a more inclusive vision of how such criteria are coordinated in food quality assessment by consumers, use has been made of convention theory. In accordance with convention theory, quality is identified, in a social context and informally, as one of the spheres in which economic activity is regulated by procedures which go beyond regulation by price. The aim of our study was to measure the effects of coordinated conventions of quality in the context of one type of short supply chain: farmers' markets specialised in the sale of organic products. An ordered logit model was implemented. Our results allow credence characteristics to be classified within conventions of quality and could help support strategies aimed at spreading sustainable forms of food distribution and consumption. Future research might go to the direction of validating our results based on a single form of supply organization. Moreover, additional efforts should be made understanding the effect of situational factors on socio-demographic variables such as gender. Finally, an attempt should be made to merge different theories to better understand the issue of consumer choice
Local economies and consumer participation: the organic food fairs
No full textChain and Network Managemen
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