Innovations in Organic Food Systems for Sustainable Production and Ecosystem Services: An Introduction to the Special Issue of Sustainable Agriculture Research

Mallory, Ellen B.; Halberg, Niels; Andreasen, Lise; Delate, Kathleen; Ngouajio, Mathieu

doi:10.5539/sar.v4n3p1

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“…The current research on organic foodsuch as Denver and Christensen (2015), Hasselbach and Roosen (2015), Lockie et al (2002), Mallory et al (2015), Paoletti (2014), and Azak and Miran (2015) is mostly from Europe and America. There is a lack of related research on organic food in Asia; thus, we include a perspective from Asia and Taiwan to determine the influence of consumers' doubts about whether manufacturers provide honest ingredient labels, given the series of global food safety incidents.…”

Section: Research Motivation and Purposementioning

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An analysis of purchase intentions toward organic food on health consciousness and food safety with/under structural equation modeling

Hsu

Chang

Lin

2016

British Food Journal

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influences of natural content, food safety concern, health consciousness, and subjective knowledge on attitudes towards organic food and purchase intentions. Design/methodology/approach – Samples are collected in Taiwan from April to May 2014 with a total of 252 returned effective questionnaires. The data are analyzed by structural equation modeling. Findings – The results show that food safety concern and subjective knowledge have a significantly positive impact on attitudes towards organic food and purchase intentions, and natural content has a significantly positive effect on attitudes towards organic food. Moreover, it also shows that health consciousness and attitudes towards organic food have a significantly positive effect on purchase intentions. This study has found that subjective knowledge of organic food, health consciousness, and food safety concern are important factors impacting organic food purchase intentions. Practical implications – This study provides organic industry to understand the consumer’s demand from the consumers’ perspective and as a basis for the future development of organic food. Originality/value – The study results will provide a reference for the agricultural department of the government and the organic food promotion and education of organic food producers.

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Section: Research Motivation and Purposementioning

confidence: 99%

An analysis of purchase intentions toward organic food on health consciousness and food safety with/under structural equation modeling

Hsu

Chang

Lin

2016

British Food Journal

194

153

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Impact of organic food and organic agriculture on human health and ecosystem

Das

2023

Advances in Resting-State Functional MRI

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Human health implications of organic food and organic agriculture: a comprehensive review

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This review summarises existing evidence on the impact of organic food on human health. It compares organic vs. conventional food production with respect to parameters important to human health and discusses the potential impact of organic management practices with an emphasis on EU conditions. Organic food consumption may reduce the risk of allergic disease and of overweight and obesity, but the evidence is not conclusive due to likely residual confounding, as consumers of organic food tend to have healthier lifestyles overall. However, animal experiments suggest that identically composed feed from organic or conventional production impacts in different ways on growth and development. In organic agriculture, the use of pesticides is restricted, while residues in conventional fruits and vegetables constitute the main source of human pesticide exposures. Epidemiological studies have reported adverse effects of certain pesticides on children’s cognitive development at current levels of exposure, but these data have so far not been applied in formal risk assessments of individual pesticides. Differences in the composition between organic and conventional crops are limited, such as a modestly higher content of phenolic compounds in organic fruit and vegetables, and likely also a lower content of cadmium in organic cereal crops. Organic dairy products, and perhaps also meats, have a higher content of omega-3 fatty acids compared to conventional products. However, these differences are likely of marginal nutritional significance. Of greater concern is the prevalent use of antibiotics in conventional animal production as a key driver of antibiotic resistance in society; antibiotic use is less intensive in organic production. Overall, this review emphasises several documented and likely human health benefits associated with organic food production, and application of such production methods is likely to be beneficial within conventional agriculture, e.g., in integrated pest management.

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Innovations in Organic Food Systems for Sustainable Production and Ecosystem Services: An Introduction to the Special Issue of Sustainable Agriculture Research

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

An analysis of purchase intentions toward organic food on health consciousness and food safety with/under structural equation modeling

An analysis of purchase intentions toward organic food on health consciousness and food safety with/under structural equation modeling

Impact of organic food and organic agriculture on human health and ecosystem

Human health implications of organic food and organic agriculture: a comprehensive review

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