Food system orientation and quality perception among consumers and producers of organic food in Hedmark County, Norway

Torjusen, Hanne; Lieblein, Geir; Wandel, Margareta; Francis, Charles

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“…Moreover, consumers' environmental attitudes are factors determining consumers purchase of organic foods (Schifferstein and Oude Ophuis, 1998;Loureiro et al, 2001;Torjusen et al, 2001;Millock et al, 2004;Chryssohoidis and Krystallis, 2005;Durham and Andrade, 2005;Kuhar and Juvancic, 2005;Padel and Foster, 2005;Verhoef, 2005). Those papers conclude that the most important motives to buy organic foods are consumers' attitudes toward health and environmental issues.…”

Section: Previous Empirical Studies On Consumers and Organic Foodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In particular, some of the studies have found that both attitudes influences organic food purchase (Millock et al, 2003;Durham and Andrade, 2005;Padel and Foster, 2005) but the health attitudes are more influential than the environmental ones in consumers' purchases of organic foods [except for Durham and Andrade (2005) who found, for USA consumers, that environment is more influential than health in consumers' organic purchase decision]. Moreover, some studies have found that whether organic food products are locally produced also influences consumers decision to purchase organic foods (Torjusen et al, 2001;Padel and Foster, 2005;and Onyango et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Organic food product purchase behaviour: a pilot study for urban consumers in the South of Italy

Gracía¹,

Magistris²

2013

Span. j. agric. res.

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The aim of this paper is to explain factors that influence organic food purchases of urban consumers in the South of Italy. To achieve this goal, a multivariate limited dependent variable model has been specified to simultaneously analyse consumers’ organic food purchases, the intention to purchase organic food products and the level of organic knowledge. This study uses survey data gathered from 200 consumers in Naples in 2003. Results indicate that consumers who are more willing to buy organic food products are more likely to buy a larger amount of those products. The intention to purchase depends on attitudes and organic product knowledge. Moreover, consumers’ attitudes towards health and environmental benefits provided by organic foods are the most important factors explaining, both, the intention to purchase and the final decision. Finally, income and organic knowledge positively influences the final decision to buy organic food products

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Section: Previous Empirical Studies On Consumers and Organic Foodsmentioning

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Section: Previous Empirical Studies On Consumers and Organic Foodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organic food product purchase behaviour: a pilot study for urban consumers in the South of Italy

Gracía¹,

Magistris²

2013

Span. j. agric. res.

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“…Public perception, animal welfare, and milk quality call for a continued use of grasslands for grazing in dairy farming (Torjusen et al, 2001). To meet the public concern some milk producers offer incentives to dairy farmers if they let their dairy cows graze, but for many farmers this is impossible * Corresponding author at: Research Center Bygholm, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Aarhus University, Schuttesvej 17, DK-8700…”

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ZigBee-based wireless sensor networks for monitoring animal presence and pasture time in a strip of new grass

Nadimi

Søgaard

Bak

et al. 2008

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

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ZigBee-based wireless sensor networks for monitoring animal presence and pasture time in a strip of new grass Nadimi, Esmaeil; Søgaaard, Henning T.; Bak, Thomas; Oudshoorn, Frank W. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.? Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. ? You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain ? You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us at vbn@aub.aau.dk providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.Downloaded from vbn.aau.dk on: May 08, 2018 c o m p u t e r s a n d e l e c t r o n i c s i n a g r i c u l t u r e 6 1 ( 2 0 0 8 ) The problem of online monitoring of cows' presence and pasture time in an extended area covered by a strip of new grass using wireless sensor networks has been addressed. The total pasture time in the extended area was estimated by measuring the pasture time in a specific part of that area called the gateway connectivity area where sensor nodes mounted on the cows could communicate directly with a gateway. Packet loss causes a node that was present in the connectivity range of the gateway frequently to be classified as an absent node. Therefore, a moving average window with optimal window length and threshold was designed to minimize the misclassification. As the measured pasture time in the gateway connectivity area was an underestimation of the total pasture time in the extended area, an area-based correction factor, same for all individual animals was applied.As only 23% of the animals in a herd were equipped to be monitored by sensor nodes, investigations to evaluate if the monitored number of animals could represent the whole herd were of great importance. To accomplish the investigations, the number of monitored cows by sensor nodes and the total number of cows (with and without sensor nodes) in the extended area were counted manually each minute over a period of 3 h during 3 days.Pearson chi-square test of goodness of fit showed that the number of cows in the extended area was normally distributed. Furthermore, a statistical test showed that the mean number of monitored cows in the extended area and the mean of total number of cows in the extended area corresponded with the percentage of monitored cows by sensor nodes in the herd (23%).

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“…Similar results were obtained by Royne et al (2011) for environmentally friendly products in general, and by Dickson (2001) for a "no sweat" label on apparel. In a European setting, De Pelsmacker et al (2005) showed that people who regarded themselves as idealistic and unconventional were willing to pay more for coffee carrying a "fair trade" label, while several studies (Sparks and Shepherd, 1992;Torjussen et al, 2001) showed that people who care about ethical, environmental, and health issues are more likely to buy "organic" meat.…”

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Creating Consumer Confidence in CSR Communications

Berens

Popma

2014

Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives and Practice

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A large number of studies have suggested that consumers in Western countries increasingly attach importance to corporate social responsibility (CSR), i.e., the social and environmental activities of the companies they buy from (e.g., Cone, 2005). This is paralleled by an increasing interest in CSR among businesses, particularly large companies. For example, a survey by the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College (CCCBC, 2005) reported that 98% of the large companies surveyed in the U.S. were actively involved in at least some CSR activities, and that 53% were motivated in these activities by the belief that CSR is important to consumers. In

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Food system orientation and quality perception among consumers and producers of organic food in Hedmark County, Norway

Cited by 291 publications

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Organic food product purchase behaviour: a pilot study for urban consumers in the South of Italy

Organic food product purchase behaviour: a pilot study for urban consumers in the South of Italy

ZigBee-based wireless sensor networks for monitoring animal presence and pasture time in a strip of new grass

Creating Consumer Confidence in CSR Communications

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