Consumers? perceptions and policy implications towards the future of the Organic Food Sector in Italy

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41110%2F22%3A94328" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41110/22:94328 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://newmedit.iamb.it/2022/12/19/consumers-perceptions-and-policy-implications-towards-the-future-of-the-organic-food-sector-in-italy/" target="_blank" >https://newmedit.iamb.it/2022/12/19/consumers-perceptions-and-policy-implications-towards-the-future-of-the-organic-food-sector-in-italy/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30682/nm2204h" target="_blank" >10.30682/nm2204h</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Consumers? perceptions and policy implications towards the future of the Organic Food Sector in Italy

Original language description

Research on organic consumers preferences has been given a lot of attention in the past, analysing in detail the motives of organic food consumption across the World. However, less attention has been paid to the expectations of consumers change in the context of growing complexities of sustainable agriculture and competing discourses of numerous food movements. The main goal of this study is to explore how the ongoing changes of the organic sector are reflected in consumers perspectives of organic agriculture and their preferences for organic food quality. The study was conducted in Italy with the use of the Q -method-ology with a Q-set of 44 statements and a P-set of 20 participants. Three main groups of consumers were identified for the purposes of the study: Mainstreaming for the better good, Critical supporters look-ing for more, Organic intensification supporters. Despite each ideal-typical group showing different perceptions of the future of the organic movement, they all shared similar policy

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

New Medit

ISSN

1594-5685

e-ISSN

2611-1128

Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

97-110

UT code for WoS article

000903193700008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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