Thou shalt not waste: Unpacking consumption of local food

O’Neill, Claire; Hashem, Shadi; Moran, Christopher R.; McCarthy, Mary

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2021.06.016

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“…Purchasing from local, short supply chains ‘reduces storage and transportation, provides a better supply-demand balance, creates more transparency and tracking and contributes to waste reduction’ (Giudice et al ., 2020, p. 11). Indeed, food purchased from local channels is ascribed a higher value by consumers and, consequently, is much less likely to enter the waste stream (O'Neill et al ., 2022).…”

Section: Sustainability-related Food Behavioursmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food interests, preferences and behaviours: a profile of the sustainable food consumer

O’Neill

McCarthy

O’Reilly

et al. 2023

BFJ

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PurposeSustainability challenges are omnipresent. This study aims to identify consumer segments based on food consumption practices from purchasing to disposal. A priori work identified quality attributes, food responsibility, dietary choices and food organisation and management within the home as key influences. Each represents an opportunity for consumers to employ more sustainable food behaviours. A priori work identified several indicators for each of these influences. This study explored the suitability of these indicators for measuring the identified key influences.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used an online survey of 324 Irish food consumers in January 2021 to address online food interests, purchasing preferences and purchase behaviour linked to food sustainability.FindingsThe authors identify four consumer segments – food dabblers, food appreciators, pro-sus and pressured – which present a holistic view of the sustainable behaviours practiced by food consumers. The findings provide insight into the range of sustainability-related food behaviours actioned by consumers – from interest in meat-free products, organics and local produce to having an organised stock at home and minimising waste. The findings shed light on how consumers integrate elements of sustainability into their food lifestyles.Originality/valueThis study captures sustainability-related food behaviours from the point of purchase through to consumption and disposal and identifies four new consumer segments based on interests, preferences and behaviours.

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Section: Sustainability-related Food Behavioursmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food interests, preferences and behaviours: a profile of the sustainable food consumer

O’Neill

McCarthy

O’Reilly

et al. 2023

BFJ

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“…Social practice approaches attempt to understand the processes implicated in how societies prevail and develop or fail to develop, forming an important part of the sustainability literature [26]. A social practice approach subsequently allows for a broad perspective of how food provision is mobilised by actors' collective actions in SFSCs [27][28][29], and in turn food hubs.…”

Section: Social Practice and Stategic Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Actor Social Networks: A Social Practice Approach to Understanding Food Hubs

Hyland¹,

Macken‐Walsh²

2022

Sustainability

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Food hubs are collaborative entities that strategically manage the assemblage, delivery, and promotion of food from a range of local food producers. They are essentially multi-actor institutions, involving horizontal collaboration between producers and vertical collaborations up and down the food chain, involving all actors required to bring food products from producers to consumers. Although food hubs offer many advantages to both producers and consumers, they remain a recognisably neglected research topic in Europe. Furthermore, the strategic networks of actors involved in these collaborative entities is often overlooked. Empirically, this study draws from a collection of ‘good practices’ gathered for the Short Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN) EU-funded H2020 project. Drawing on a social practice approach and network diagrams, this article explores the good practices of three food hub typologies. This study primarily investigates the context in which food hubs practice multi-actor food provision. We apply social practice as a lens to ’zoom in’ and explore the shared materials, meanings and skills that aid such systems of provision. Social network diagrams are utilised to ‘zoom out’ to examine and facilitate the detection of key actors involved in food hubs’ strategic networks. This research addresses the lack of academic attention on European food hubs by placing practice as the central unit of focus. Our approach enables better comprehension of what constitutes a short food supply chain (SFSC) when orchestrated within three main typologies of food hubs. The findings are of interest to researchers, policy makers, agricultural development intermediaries, and actors involved in systems of food provision who are interested in understanding and supporting the functioning of SFSCs.

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“…Despite decades of sustainability science and practice, progress towards lasting wellbeing for all remains a distant target [252,[268][269][270]. Deepening rates of poverty and privation, compounded by challenges ranging from climate change to loss of biological diversity, are undermining conditions for long-term viability [4,5,271].…”

Section: Inner Capacities For Sustainability Transformationsmentioning

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A Novel Framework for Inner-Outer Sustainability Assessment

Cooper

Gibson

2022

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Calls for systemic transformations have become prevalent throughout sustainability discourse. Increasingly, these calls point towards consciousness expanding practices and interventions, such as mindfulness, to support the development of individual understandings, skills, and capacities that are conducive to more sustainable ways of being and doing. The growing interest in leveraging inner capacities, including mindsets, worldviews, values, and beliefs for sustainability transformations emerges from concerns that conventional approaches are failing to align social and ecological systems towards long-term viability. Interest in these consciousness-driven transformations is spreading, particularly in governments and prominent organisations. Tempering this enthusiasm are concerns that untethered from moral and ethical guidelines as well as caring understanding of local and global prospects for lasting wellbeing, mindfulness programs, workshops, and interventions for inner transformation can inadvertently strengthen unsustainable systems and deepen inequities. Accordingly, this paper presents an exploratory assessment framework to increase understandings of how events focused on interventions for inner transformation align with broad sustainability requirements. Findings from application of the framework should help to elucidate how these offerings can disrupt normative ways of thinking and doing, and in turn, positively influence multi-scalar transformations. Furthermore, use of the assessment process to plan and/or evaluate inner development offerings is anticipated to help strengthen progress towards sustainability and reduce adverse trade-offs that might undermine positive systemic transformations.

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Thou shalt not waste: Unpacking consumption of local food

Cited by 9 publications

References 67 publications

Food interests, preferences and behaviours: a profile of the sustainable food consumer

Food interests, preferences and behaviours: a profile of the sustainable food consumer

Multi-Actor Social Networks: A Social Practice Approach to Understanding Food Hubs

A Novel Framework for Inner-Outer Sustainability Assessment

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