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Does the Sustainability of Food Products Influence Consumer Choices? The Case of Italy

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

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Title Does the Sustainability of Food Products Influence Consumer Choices? The Case of Italy
 
Creator Banterle, Alessandro
Ricci, Elena Claire
 
Subject Consumer choices; environmental sustainability; food labelling
 
Description In this paper we analyse if there is a diffused interest among consumers about the environmental impacts of their food choices, and try to capture the different types of attitudes of Italian consumers with respect to environmental sustainability of food products. The analysis builds on a survey based on vis-a-vis interviews with 240 consumers in Milan, and on a cluster analysis. The results highlight a high level of stated concern about environmental issues and about possible impacts of personal food consumption choices on the environment. Nevertheless, when investigating their actions during everyday shopping we have identified four groups of consumers: (1) those who take into consideration the environmental information on labels and do not require additional information; (2) those for which environmental information on labels does not have a great effect on purchase, but would like to receive more information; (3) those for which the presence of environmental information directs product selection and would also like to receive more; (4) those that do not take into account environmental issues when purchasing and are not interested in receiving more information about the impacts of the products.
 
Publisher CentMA
 
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Date 2013-11-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/426
10.18461/ijfsd.v4i2.426
 
Source International Journal on Food System Dynamics; Vol 4, No 2 (2013); 149 - 158
1869-6945
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/426/335