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Testing for the Best Instrument to Generate Sustainable Food Consumption

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

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Title Testing for the Best Instrument to Generate Sustainable Food Consumption
 
Creator Panzone, Luca
Perino, Grischa
Swanson, Timothy
Leung, Denise
 
Subject Sustainable consumption; Food shopping; Dietary Change; Policy instrument
 
Description  The increase in the level of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere in the last centuries, and the subsequent increase in temperature, has been a widely studied area in the last few decades. Climate change has become a key item on the political agenda due to concerns regarding the sustainability of current human consumption for future generations. Consumption of food and agricultural goods constitutes an important part of household based GHG emissions, and the relatively low costs associated with environmental improvements make it an interesting area of study to understand behavioural changes. Despite general agreement on the need to curb the amount of GHG emissions worldwide, little evidence exists regarding the best instruments policymakers can employ to stimulate changes toward more sustainable consumption. The present work explores which instruments are most effective in fostering change to more environmentally friendly food consumption. The instruments tested are CO2 labelling, GHG abatement subsidy and product-specific bans. We used a simulated online shopping trip in supermarkets in the Greater London area in the United Kingdom, where respondents shopped in four product categories: cola, milk, meat (chicken and beef), and butter/margarine. Consumer preferences reveal that, in the presence of these instruments, quantity instruments performed better than price incentives and labelling.
 
Publisher CentMA
 
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Date 2011-10-15
 
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/234
10.18461/ijfsd.v2i3.234
 
Source International Journal on Food System Dynamics; Vol 2, No 3 (2011): Special issue on sustainability in the food sector; 237 - 252
1869-6945
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/234/164