The use and usefulness of carbon labelling food: A policy perspective from a survey of UK supermarket shoppers

Gadema, Zaina; Oglethorpe, David

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2011.08.001

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“…This awareness has encouraged in the last years the development of an extensive literature about the issues of sustainable consumption (De Pelsmacker et al 2003;Verbeke 2006, 2008;Vanhonacker et al 2012; Vecchio and Annunziata 2013;Cembalo et al 2013;Pomarici and Vecchio 2014). The topics of these studies range from the environmental sustainability, with a particular reference to the organic food products (Fotopoulos and Chryssochoidis 2001;Thøgersen 2010; food miles (Kemp et al 2010), the carbon foot-print (Gedema and Oglethorpe 2011), and the water footprint (Khan 2009) recyclable packaging (van Birgelen et al 2009) to social sustainability with a particular reference to the Fair Trade products, the respect of human rights (De Pelsmacker et al 2007;Mariani and Viganò 2013), the animal welfare (de Boer and Cornelissen 2002;Vecchio and Annunziata 2012), the local food to support local farmers (Zepeda and Deal 2009).…”

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Factors affecting consumer attitudes towards food products with sustainable attributes

Annunziata¹,

Scarpato²

2014

Agric. Econ. - Czech

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Sustainable food consumption is a core policy objective of the new millennium in the national and international agenda, as a consequence, the attention towards sustainable consumption has signifi cantly increased in the last decade. However, the consumer attitudes and buying behaviours of sustainable food are still not completely understood. In this context, this paper aims to investigate the factors aff ecting consumers' attitudes towards food products with sustainable attributes. Th e fi rst part of the work presents an overview of the theoretical concepts of sustainable consumption. Subsequently, the results of an empirical analysis with a sample of 300 consumers aimed at assessing factors' aff ecting consumer attitudes towards food products with sustainable attributes, such as Organic, Fair Trade and typical products, are presented. Th e results presented in this paper are valuable for both producers in the formulation of marketing strategies and for public institutions in the planning of the programs of education and information for the promotion of sustainable consumption.

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Factors affecting consumer attitudes towards food products with sustainable attributes

Annunziata¹,

Scarpato²

2014

Agric. Econ. - Czech

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“…However, in order for these products to take a larger place in the consumer's perception, better labeling should be used with these products. Also, a legal groundwork may have to be created for these [19].…”

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Impacts of Cattle and Sheep Husbandry on Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Time Series Analysis for Central European Countries

Gürlük¹,

Uzel²,

Turan³

2015

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…Gadema and Oglethorpe (2011) surveyed 428 consumers in British shopping malls and found that 72% consumers show interest in the introduction of carbon labels while as many as 89% of them have doubts or problems in understanding carbon footprint information because of ineffective promotion. Based on the questionnaire survey on 6 foreign-invested supermarkets in Beijing, Ying (2011) shows that 64.8% respondents are now well-informed of the term -low-carbon -and 83.8% of them only accept a premium of 20% on the average counterparts.…”

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Consumer behavior on low-carbon agri-food purchase: a carbon labeling experimental study in China

Shuai¹,

Xiao-min²,

Zhang³

et al. 2014

AGR ECON-CZECH

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With the world economic development and the dramatic increase of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the issue of sustainable development that is largely related with the environmental deterioration has aroused a world-wide concern. Low-carbon economy, therefore, has gradually shifted from the ideology and advocacy to theoretical researches and practical policy actions throughout the world. As a revolutionary new mode of economic development, a new model of energy consumption and a new way of life for mankind, the low-carbon economy is rooted in the low-carbon consumption (He et al. 2011a). It is an important issue to achieve sustainable development and sustainable consumption by changing the consumption ideology and readjusting consumption patterns of the people's livelihood. The existing research findings demonstrate that the change of consumer behaviour has a more obvious and a far-reaching impact on the emissions reduction than improving the energy efficiency of machines and facilities such as automobiles and buildings (Wang et al. 2010). Unlike industrialized countries such as Europe and the USA, China is still at the post-industrialization stage and the rising well-off consumers tend to consume more goods with energy intensity; the studies show that the consumption activities contribute 30-40% to the environmental degradation (Wang and Jing 2012), the high-carbon consumption tendency, the scarcity of low-carbon awareness and deficiency of social norms are the main obstacles of low-carbon consumption behaviour (Chen and Li 2012). Therefore, it is of great significance to conduct an experimental study on consumers' potential behaviour on purchasing low-carbon agri-food products in China. Literature reviewThe research on the impact of carbon labelling on low-carbon consumption began only a few years ago. Edwards-Jones et al. (2009) Abstract: By adopting the scenario experimental methodology of carbon labelling on agri-food products, coupled with 873 questionnaires collected from six cities in China, we made a statistical analysis of diff erent types of consumers' behaviour on the low-carbon agri-food purchase by using the SPSS software. Th e results indicate that: (1) there are great diff erences of the low-carbon purchasing behaviour between diff erent types of consumers: male groups at young and middle-aged, especially those who are highly educated and better paid in economically developed areas, have strong low-carbon product purchasing powers; (2) consumers' low-carbon purchasing behaviour is highly correlated with their preference for low-carbon products; (3) young consumers and some of the high-income consumers have a weak environmental consciousness and; (4) consumer's perception on government policies and the implementing effi ciency shows a positive moderating eff ect on the consumers' low-carbon purchasing behaviour. Finally, we proposed policy recommendations accordingly based on the fi ndings of this study for further facilitating low-carbon consumption in China.

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The use and usefulness of carbon labelling food: A policy perspective from a survey of UK supermarket shoppers

Cited by 248 publications

References 14 publications

Factors affecting consumer attitudes towards food products with sustainable attributes

Factors affecting consumer attitudes towards food products with sustainable attributes

Impacts of Cattle and Sheep Husbandry on Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Time Series Analysis for Central European Countries

Consumer behavior on low-carbon agri-food purchase: a carbon labeling experimental study in China

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