Household Food Purchases and Sustainable Diets
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 22693
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Interests: environmental life cycle assessment; ecosystem ecology; global carbon dynamics; plant and animal ecophysiology; systems modelling
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Interests: consumers’ food and drink demand; operation of agrifood supply chains; introduction of new food and drink products
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Changes in eating patterns are an important step for building sustainable food and agricultural systems, and there is an agreement that global food sustainability cannot be achieved without a significant change in consumers’ diets. However, to reach this goal, there is a need to identify and facilitate the adoption of more sustainable diets. As part of this, it is essential to understand consumers’ interests in those diets, factors that affect their decisions, and how policy can help to move current diets towards more sustainable ones.
This Special Issue will comprise papers covering a wide range of aspects related to sustainable food consumption. It will explore—in developed and developing countries—food-purchasing patterns and consumers’ interest in food products with sustainable attributes. Therefore, we particularly encourage empirical papers that focus on understanding the demand for sustainable food products, consumers’ response to the introduction of new products associated with more sustainable primary production (including both conventional and organic production) processing, transport and packaging, and studies evaluating policies encouraging consumers to adopt sustainable diets (e.g., sustainability labels, marketing, taxes, and subsidies). Furthermore, papers on novel methodologies for sustainability assessment of diets are also highly encouraged.
Prof. Ilkka Leinonen
Dr. Cesar Revoredo-Giha
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainable diets
- Sustainability assessment of food products
- Life cycle assessment
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Food purchases
- New food products
- Sustainability attributes
- Consumers’ interest
- Sustainability labels
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