Environmental and Health Components in Consumer Perception of Organic Products: Estimation of Willingness to Pay

The role of ethics and product personality in the intention to purchase organic food products: a structural equation modeling approach

“…Naturalness is saturated by adjectives such as genuine, healthy and natural, and it turned out to influence both perceived behavioral control and moral norms. This result is in line with previous research which recognized the key benefit of food products in terms of healthiness (Cicia et al 2009;McEachern and McClean 2002;Padel and Foster 2005;Zanoli and Naspetti 2002). Consumers perceive that organic food products, when compared to conventionally produced alternatives, have long-term beneficial effects on ones' health, as they are free of chemical and pesticide residues, additives and preservatives.…”

“…The profile of the consumers of organic food products seems to be multifaceted as it involves both socioeconomic and psychographic aspects (Bellows et al 2008;Cicia et al 2009). Several studies have investigated socioeconomic characteristics-gender, family size, marital status, income, and level of education.…”

Human values and preferences for cleaner livestock production

“…It is not directely related to environmental or nature conservation. However, security has been identified as strongly related to the choice of organic products, considered safer from the point of view of human health (Schifferstein and Oude Ophuis, 1998;Shepherd et al, 2005;Cicia et al, 2009). Vermeir and Verbeke (2008) found a positive association between tradition and attitudes towards environmentally friendly products.…”

Pertinence d’une double labellisation biologique-écologique auprès des consommateurs. Une application au cas des œufs

“…Récemment, certaines études (Tsakiridou et al, 2008 ;Cicia et al, 2009 ; Agence RECHERCHE Bio/CSA, 2010) ont montré que les deux motivations d'achat de produits biologiques (santé, respect de l'environnement) sont équivalentes. L'étude de Cicia et al (2009) par exemple évalue la disposition à payer des consommateurs italiens pour 1 kg de tomates biologiques à 0.86 €/kg par rapport aux tomates conventionnelles. La valeur attribuée à la composante santé est de l'ordre de 0.46 €/kg et celle associée à la composante environnementale est de 0.40 €/kg.…”