The Additional Costs of Organic Food Products – A Basket of Goods-based Analysis Differentiated by Income

Held, Benjamin; Haubach, Christian

doi:10.5771/0935-9915-2017-1-6

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“…As a key example, organic food products are generally more expensive than non-organic alternatives (Bezawada and Pauwels, 2013;van Doorn and Verhoef, 2015;Aschemann-Witzel and Zielke, 2017). Held and Haubach (2017) estimate that in the German market, households with a belowmedian net equivalent income cannot afford to purchase solely organic food products without getting into debt.…”

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Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research Agenda From a Goal-Directed Perspective

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The challenge of convincing people to change their eating habits toward more environmentally sustainable food consumption (ESFC) patterns is becoming increasingly pressing. Food preferences, choices and eating habits are notoriously hard to change as they are a central aspect of people's lifestyles and their socio-cultural environment. Many people already hold positive attitudes toward sustainable food, but the notable gap between favorable attitudes and actual purchase and consumption of more sustainable food products remains to be bridged. The current work aims to (1) present a comprehensive theoretical framework for future research on ESFC, and (2) highlight behavioral solutions for environmental challenges in the food domain from an interdisciplinary perspective. First, starting from the premise that food consumption is deliberately or unintentionally directed at attaining goals, a goal-directed framework for understanding and influencing ESFC is built. To engage in goal-directed behavior, people typically go through a series of sequential steps. The proposed theoretical framework makes explicit the sequential steps or hurdles that need to be taken for consumers to engage in ESFC. Consumers need to positively value the environment, discern a discrepancy between the desired versus the actual state of the environment, opt for action to reduce the experienced discrepancy, intend to engage in behavior that is expected to bring them closer to the desired end state, and act in accordance with their intention. Second, a critical review of the literature on mechanisms that underlie and explain ESFC (or the lack thereof) in high-income countries is presented and integrated into the goal-directed framework. This contribution thus combines a topdown conceptualization with a bottom-up literature review; it identifies and discusses factors that might hold people back from ESFC and interventions that might promote ESFC; and it reveals knowledge gaps as well as insights on how to encourage

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“…The focus of the current review is on high-income countries, but even in these countries, many consumers face financial limitations (Held and Haubach, 2017). Most research (often implicitly) addresses a narrow target group of individuals who are financially able to engage in green consumption.…”

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“…For example, indexes are being developed to determine the environmental sustainability of food consumption at the household level (Panzone et al, 2013). In this direction, it should also be underlined the impact on the purchase decision of sustainable products of the additional costs in their production, reflected in the higher acquisition cost (Held & Haubach, 2017). In this sense, the additional costs that households incur to purchase sustainable products can be seen as directly linked to their motivation to offset the negative environmental footprint they leave through the choice and consumption of food products.…”

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Sustainable Consumer Activities of Varna Households

Kehayova-Stoycheva

Ivanov

Vasilev

2023

Studies in Business and Economics

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The purpose of this article is to present the process for developing individual indexes of sustainable household actions in several thematic areas of sustainable consumption. These areas are energy efficiency, electricity and water consumption, food consumption, transport use and product disposal. Based on these individual indexes, a proposal for the creation of an aggregated individual household index for sustainable consumption is discussed. Based on the developed indexes, a segmentation of households into three basic segments is proposed. The proposed indexes are designed based on the results of a survey conducted among 342 households from the city of Varna, Bulgaria in the months of January - April 2022. The proposed indexes, after adaptation, can be used as a tool for self-assessment of sustainable household consumption in different cities and countries. In this sense, as a result of their implementation, it is expected that the motivation of households towards inclusion in sustainable consumption will be increased.

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“…Accordingly, it could be overseen by general support (truly, still shy) to encourage the replacement of the consumerist option with a more sustainable one, the type of model promoting huge and irresponsible consumption tending to become a not viable one, while the sustainable consumer being promoted as the correct and most recommended alternative. Particularly, the approach regarding the sustainable consumption shift should take into consideration different barriers toward change, such as lack of consumer awareness regarding the impact of, for example, eating meat on the environment (Hartmann and Siegrist, 2017;Mullee et al, 2017;Vermeir et al, 2020); perceived and actual prices, as organic food products are generally more expensive than non-organic alternatives (Aschemann-Witzel and Zielke, 2017;Held and Haubach, 2017;Vermeir et al, 2020); more important priorities of consumers such as saving money, indulging, or looking for a convenient and comfortable way of living in the short-term (Lanzini and Thøgersen, 2014;Tate et al, 2014;Vermeir et al, 2020) or time pressure, especially in the case of local food, generally implying more time for buying this type of products (Feldmann and Hamm, 2015;Vermeir et al, 2020). Accordingly, properly responding to these barriers could be a step forward to a higher level of sustainable consumption.…”

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Implications of COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable consumption patterns. Evidence from Iasi County, Romania

Brumă

Ulman

Tănasă

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Across the literature, two broad behavior strategies toward sustainable food consumption are emphasized across the literature. The first strategy is related to sustainable product choices concerning how the outcome is produced, while the second one keeps a check on sustainable dietary patterns in terms of the composition within product categories. Considering these behavior strategies, while focusing especially on purchasing sustainable organic foods and preferring curtailment behaviors, conversion to this type of intake became a relevant objective among the specialists established for attaining sustainability. Consequently, the aim of this study was to observe the main changes in sustainable consumption patterns concerning these behavior strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic (August 2020), compared to the previous period (November–December 2019), in Iasi County, Romania. This study emphasizes an image of daily consumption that has been changed, at least regarding some specific aspects, due to the pandemic in the investigated Romanian context. First, the tendency to shop more during the working days could be generally observed and completed by the fact that the consumers felt safer in open spaces, like the food markets, compared to close spaces, be they supermarkets or grocery stores. Next, other main results showed that (1) the responsibility of consumers increased with regard to the purchase and waste of fresh vegetables and meat, preferring to buy more often and throw away less during the pandemic; (2) the behavior strategy in terms of organic food seemed to be discouraged in this period; and (3) local food appeared to have increased consumers' support. In addition, the pandemic crisis was shown as a driver in the digitalization of the shopping process. Accordingly, the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to have significant effects on sustainable consumption over the short and (at least) medium run, determining some changes in consumption patterns that could support, to a considerable extent, the effort of attaining a more sustainable path. However, our findings revealed some gaps in terms of societal knowledge about sustainable consumption and, consequently, call for the necessity of educating individuals on what this concept really means and why it is important to be achieved.

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The Additional Costs of Organic Food Products – A Basket of Goods-based Analysis Differentiated by Income

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research Agenda From a Goal-Directed Perspective

Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research Agenda From a Goal-Directed Perspective

Sustainable Consumer Activities of Varna Households

Implications of COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable consumption patterns. Evidence from Iasi County, Romania

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