The Impact of Environmental and Health Motivations on the Organic Share of Produce Purchases

Durham, Catherine A.

doi:10.1017/s1068280500007115

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“…According to Aertsens et al [29], age does not seem to have an influence in shaping organic food consumption, or only slightly. Other research shows that younger people have a more positive attitude towards organic products than older people and are willing to pay a price premium although their purchasing frequency is rather low [2,30,31]. This allows us to formulate a first hypothesis: Hypothesis 1.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Demand For Organic Food Productsmentioning

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Beer and Organic Labels: Do Belgian Consumers Care?

Poelmans

Rousseau

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:We investigate whether beer drinkers are willing to pay a price premium for organic beer compared to conventional beer. Moreover, we identify subgroups of consumers with different preference patterns by investigating whether specific personal characteristics of the purchasers have an influence on this willingness-to-pay. Specifically, results are reported from a survey including a stated choice experiment of consumer decisions concerning beer purchases in Flanders (Belgium), focusing on organic labels. A non-probabilistic sampling method was used over the Internet and 334 responses were useable for the empirical analysis. Each respondent was asked to choose their preferred beer from a series of nine choice cards describing three different beer varieties. In this respect, we created a two-block design, each consisting of nine choice cards. Each respondent was randomly presented with one of the two blocks, so that an equal distribution of the blocks could be obtained. Overall, we find that our sample is statistically indifferent between a beer with an organic label and a similar beer without an organic label. This is in line with previous research that stated that consumers are unwilling to pay high price premiums for organic vice products, such as beer. We find no statistically different preferences for male or female respondents, or for members or non-members of nature protection organizations. However, we find a significant difference (p-value = 0.029) between primary beer shoppers who have a zero willingness-to-pay (WTP) for organic beer compared to similar non-organic beer and the reference group that has a negative WTP of 14 Euro per 1.5 L for organic beer. In addition, the WTP for beer drinkers older than 40 (negative WTP of 22 Euro per 1.5 L) and the WTP for frequent beer drinkers (zero WTP) are statistically different from the reference group (p-value = 0.019 and 0.000 respectively).

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Section: Characteristics Of Demand For Organic Food Productsmentioning

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Beer and Organic Labels: Do Belgian Consumers Care?

Poelmans

Rousseau

2017

Sustainability

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“…The research is strongly suggestive, but not conclusive, that higher-income households are more likely to purchase organic food (Dimitri & Dettmann, 2012;Govindasamy & Italia, 1990;Loureiro, McCluskey, & Mittlehammer, 2001). That said, Durham (2007) found that income is unrelated to the purchase of organic food. Following the literature on consumers of organic food, Figures 2 and 3 demonstrate how organic food availability in this dataset varies with education and income.…”

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Two-Stage Determinants of the Organic Food Retailing Landscape: The Case of Manhattan, New York

Dimitri

Geoghegan

Rogus

2016

Journal of Food Products Marketing

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Retail sales of organic food products have been increasing faster than any other category of food and have penetrated mainstream retail grocery outlets. The majority of the literature on organic markets explores the socioeconomic characteristics of consumers, linking these traits to the probability of buying organic food, and it suggests that access to organic food is an important but overlooked factor in such studies. More recently, research focusing on food retailer marketing strategies for organic food finds that traditional strategies such as price promotions are largely unsuccessful with increasing sales for the organic food consumer. This article focuses on the retailer decision to offer organic food for sale. We model the decision as a two-stage process, where the retailer's first decision is whether to sell organic food, and the second decision determines how many different organic products to offer for sale. In doing so, by using data collected in stores, we assess the organic food retail landscape in Manhattan, NY. We find that the decision to offer organic food for sale depends on the neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics, and the amount of organic food offered for sale depends on the size of the store.

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“…Future research into the relationship between access to organic food for black households is warranted; it is likely that a complicating factor is related to the general barriers to food access caused by a lack of food stores or the type of food stores in neighborhoods with mostly black residents. Recent research relating the likelihood of consuming organic food with income has yielded inconclusive results, with some finding that households with higher income are more likely to buy organic food and others suggesting that income is not statistically related to the likelihood of buying organic food (Durham, 2007;Govindasamy & Italia,1990;Loureiro et al, 2001). Because income and education are highly correlated, it is difficult to isolate the effects of education and income on behavior, including food access.…”

Section: Socioeconomic Characteristics and Organic Food Availabilitymentioning

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“…The choice of demographic characteristics mapped follows from the literature on organic food consumers, which finds that, after accounting for income and other factors, consumers with higher levels of education are more willing or likely to purchase organic products (Dettmann & Dimitri, 2010;Fotopoulos & Krystallis, 2002;Krystallis, Fotopoulos, & Zotos, 2006;Magnusson, Arvola, Koivisto Hursti, & Åberg, 2001;O'Donovan & McCarthy, 2002;Zepeda & Li, 2007). Research has yielded conflicting results on the impact of income and race on the likelihood of buying organic food (Durham, 2007;Govindasamy & Italia, 1990;Loureiro, McCluskey, & Mittlehammer, 2001). Access to organic food, approximated by distance to a Whole Foods retail store, suggests that availability likely has a measurable effect on consumption of organic food (Dimitri & Dettman, 2011).…”

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Access to Sustainably Produced Food: An Investigation of Organic Food Availability in Manhattan, New York

Mirsch

Dimitri

2012

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Increasing access to food and improving the sustainability of producing and marketing food are both goals of the "food movement." One problem embedded in these dual goals is that improving access relies on low-priced food, while increasing sustainability of the food system necessarily raises prices. Further complicating the discussion is the fact that while the definition of a sustainable food system is intuitive, it is also vague, which does not make an analysis of sustainable food simple. Thus we use organic food as a case study to provide insight into the availability of a sustainably produced (but not necessarily sustainably marketed) food. This paper is a first step toward exploring potential links among availability, access, and consumers. Using a new data set of in-store organic food availability in Manhattan, mapping suggest that stores that carry a wider range of organic products are located in neighborhoods with populations that are both highly educated and affluent. Neighborhoods with a higher proportion of black households have little access to organic food. Bivariate correlation coefficients find that the relationship between education and organic food access increases as the level of education rises, that median household income is positively associated with organic food availability, and that the relationship between the proportion of black residences is weakly and negatively correlated with organic food availability.

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The Impact of Environmental and Health Motivations on the Organic Share of Produce Purchases

Cited by 45 publications

References 25 publications

Beer and Organic Labels: Do Belgian Consumers Care?

Beer and Organic Labels: Do Belgian Consumers Care?

Two-Stage Determinants of the Organic Food Retailing Landscape: The Case of Manhattan, New York

Access to Sustainably Produced Food: An Investigation of Organic Food Availability in Manhattan, New York

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