Editorial Board
Publication date: May 2019Source: Food Policy, Volume 85Author(s): (Source: Food Policy)
Source: Food Policy - May 28, 2019 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Consumer willingness to pay for food safety interventions: The role of message framing and issue involvement
Publication date: Available online 25 May 2019Source: Food PolicyAuthor(s): Kofi Britwum, Amalia YiannakaAbstractThe study examines the impact of gain and loss message framing and issue involvement elicitation on consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for two food safety enhancing technologies; cattle vaccines against E. coli and direct-fed microbials. A random sample of 1,842 US consumers completed a survey instrument that included six information treatments and a choice experiment. Empirical results show strong consumer preference and WTP for the technologies and consumer welfare gains from their introduction. Consistent with...
Source: Food Policy - May 27, 2019 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Adherence to WHO’s nutrition recommendations in the UK: Dietary patterns and policy implications from a national survey
Publication date: Available online 24 May 2019Source: Food PolicyAuthor(s): Giuseppe Nocella, C.S. SrinivasanAbstractAnalysis of dietary patterns has largely focused on their association with diseases or risk factors, but limited research has been conducted on the heterogeneity of population dietary patterns and their adherence to international or national nutritional guidelines. As a result, the aim of this study is to identify latent dietary patterns of UK residents and to assess how well different segments comply with WHO dietary norms.To achieve this objective, the UK’s National Diet and Nutrition Surveys for 2011–...
Source: Food Policy - May 25, 2019 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
Consumer responses to front-of-package labeling in the presence of information spillovers
This article examines how consumer responses to FOP labeling via product participation and information spillovers shift consumer demand across competing products. Applying a random coefficient logit demand model to sales data from the U.S. ready-to-eat cereal market (RTEC) empirically confirms a positive participation effect of FOP and a strong negative spillover effect on non-participating products. Further results indicate that the participation and spillover effects are stronger for healthy RTECs than they are for unhealthy ones. Moreover, ignoring such effects leads to underestimation of consumer valuation of FOP label...
Source: Food Policy - May 24, 2019 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
The system-wide impact of healthy eating: Assessing emissions and economic impacts at the regional level
In this study we use a multi-sectoral modelling framework to examine the environmental and economic impacts of such a dietary change, and illustrate this using a detailed model for Scotland. We find that if household food and drink consumption follows healthy eating guidelines, it would reduce both Scotland’s “footprint” and “territorial” emissions, and yet may be associated with positive economic impacts, generating a “double dividend” for both the environment and the economy. The economic impact however depends critically upon how households use the income previously spent on higher meat/higher calorie diet...
Source: Food Policy - May 23, 2019 Category: Food Science Source Type: research
