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Environmental Issues as Drivers for Food Choice: Study from a Multinational Framework

doi: 10.3390/su13052869
handle: 10400.19/6658
This work intended to explore some motivations that influence people’s eating habits towards sustainability. This was an observational, cross-sectional study, carried out by questionnaire survey on a non-probabilistic sample of 10,067 participants from 13 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania and United States). Results indicated that people prefer fresh local foods from the season, being important because it allows transportation and storage to be reduced, which in many cases implies refrigeration systems and consequent energy expenditure. Although people avoid food waste at home, the awareness for the waste at restaurants still needs to be improved. Consumers seem to prefer foods that have been produced and packed in sustainable ways but still give importance to the package—understandable for food products. The results also indicated significant differences in the food choice motivations between groups for all sociodemographic variables tested (age, sex, marital status, education, professional area, living environment and country), but the association was high only for variable country. Additionally, a tree classification analysis allowed to identify the relative importance of the influential variables on the sustainable food choices, with country being the most important, followed by age and sex. Additionally, discriminant function analysis allowed establishing a model for the relation between country and six variables accounting for preservation of biodiversity, respect for life, save natural resources, save energy, reduce industrial pollution and minimal packaging. Although with some limitations, this study brings valuable insight into some aspects linked with sustainable food choices on a number of countries and how people shape their food choices according to some sustainability issues.
- University of Kragujevac Serbia
- Research Center for Natural Resources, Environment and Society Portugal
- University of Rijeka, Faculty of Physics Croatia
- University of Belgrade Serbia
- Universidad Maimónides Argentina
Food choice, food choice ; food waste ; sustainable agriculture ; sustainable packaging, TJ807-830, Rinka. Rinkodara / Market. Marketing, food choice, TD194-195, Renewable energy sources, Sustainable packaging, Lietuva (Lithuania), sustainable packaging, GE1-350, Aplinkos politika / Environmental policy, Environmental effects of industries and plants, Food waste, Sustainable agriculture, sustainable agriculture, Environmental sciences, Vartojimas / Consumption, food waste
Food choice, food choice ; food waste ; sustainable agriculture ; sustainable packaging, TJ807-830, Rinka. Rinkodara / Market. Marketing, food choice, TD194-195, Renewable energy sources, Sustainable packaging, Lietuva (Lithuania), sustainable packaging, GE1-350, Aplinkos politika / Environmental policy, Environmental effects of industries and plants, Food waste, Sustainable agriculture, sustainable agriculture, Environmental sciences, Vartojimas / Consumption, food waste
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