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2. Do consumers’ values and attitudes affect food retailer choice? Evidence from a national survey on farmers’ market in Germany
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cicia, Gianni (author), Furno, Marilena (author), and Del Giudice, Teresa (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-04
- Published:
- United States: Springer Link
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12506
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural and Food Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 9 (3)
- Notes:
- 21 pages., New trends in food consumption are shaping consumers’ preferences and buying behavior. Non-traditional food retailing and short supply chains (SSCs) are offering bundles of attributes that fit the needs of larger consumers’ segments. Several studies have analyzed factors affecting the choice of traditional and non-traditional food retailing. Very few, however, are those studies that analyze the predictive role of human values and attitudes on the choice of traditional and non-traditional food retailing and supply chains. Usually, due to the low percentage of consumers involved in SSC, analyses of consumer behavior have been conducted using convenience samples. This study, based on online questionnaires submitted to a representative sample composed by 1009 German consumers, tests the hypothesis that the frequency of purchases at farmers’ markets is related to human values: attitude toward the industrialized food market and attitude toward the environment. The econometric approach here implemented computes the model on average and in the tails of the dependent variable, frequency of purchases at farmers’ market, thus investigating the model in a representative sample even where the percentage of non-traditional food retailing consumers is low, as occurs in the tails for low/high frequency of purchases. The questionnaire included the Schwartz value survey, attitudes toward environment and attitude toward industrialized food market, and self-reported estimates of the frequency of buying at farmers’ market. Results suggest that the frequency of buying at farmers’ markets is hierarchically related to attitudes and values. The frequency of purchases at farmers’ markets is negatively related to industrialized food attitudes and positively related to pro-environment attitudes. Attitudes are in turn affected by values: self-transcendence has a positive impact on pro-environment attitude and the reverse is true for conservation. Furthermore, these relationships are not constant in the sample: they change according to the selected frequency of purchases.
3. Dynamics of asymmetric conflict: The case of the German Milk Conflict
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Alpmann, Jan (author), Bitsch, Vera (author), and Technical University of Munich, Chair Group Economics of Horticulture and Landscaping, Alte Akademie 16, Freising, Germany Technical University of Munich, Chair Economics of Horticulture and Landscaping, Alte Akademie 16, Freising, Germany
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01
- Published:
- Germany: Elsevier Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08106
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 66: 62-72
4. Effects of information on trust in farmers regarding animal welfare
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gross, Sabine (author) and Roosen, Jutta (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2017-07-30
- Published:
- Germany
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09242
- Notes:
- Research paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, July 30-August 1, 2017. 22 pages.
5. German pic farmers' attitudes toward animal welfare programs and their willingness to participate in these programs: an empirical study
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- von Hardenberg, Louisa (author) and Heise, Heinke (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Germany
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11110
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(3) : 289-301
- Notes:
- Available online at www.centmapress.org, Four factors and three farmer groups were identified which significantly differed regarding their attitudes towards animal welfare programs and willingness to participate in them. Authors cited evidence of need to design tailor-made strategies for communicating with farmers about this subject.
6. Identification of key components for a new urban food strategy - results of a delphi study in Cologne, Germany
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hirsch, Darya (author), Heuschkel, Zoe (author), and Terlau, Wiltrud (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Germany
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10930
- Notes:
- 2018 International European Forum (163rd EAAE Seminar), February 5-9, 2018, Innsbruck, Austria. International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks. 5 pages., Urban food systems consist of many stakeholders with different perspectives, different interests and different governance tools. This study aimed at developing potential future scenarios for the food system of Cologne by analysing the system with a Delphi approach. In our research-design, the suitability of the Delphi-method was evaluated not only as a tool for future modelling and scenario design, but also as a communication tool among the group of participants on a multistakeholder platform. As a case study, the Food Policy Council of Cologne, Germany was used. Cologne can be seen as a forerunner among German cities in the development of a new urban food policy. Some of the successful steps to re-envisioning food as an urban system include joining the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, the decision of the City Council to become an edible city and the establishment of a Food Policy Council. For the study it was important to capture participants’ visions of a common goal regarding the governance of the urban food system and also to identify mental ‘silos’. It was obvious that the municipality of Cologne together with the Food Policy Council made great efforts towards participatory processes to build a vision for a sustainable and regional food supply. However, many stakeholder-groups in the process still work exclusively among themselves and do not actively practice the confrontation with the viewpoints of other relevant groups. This supports the maintenance of ‘silos’ and leaves little room for face-to-face discussions. Therefore, the primary aim of this study is to explore key components of food provisioning in the future for Cologne while confronting all stakeholders (municipal administration and politicians, farmers and food activists) with the perspectives of all group members. We used a multi-stakeholder Delphi approach with 19 panellists to find out essential components of the municipal regional food provisioning system in Cologne. Unique in this Delphi study is the bringing together of municipal administration, regional urban farmers and food activists. The research is still on-going, but preliminary results show that more communication among all relevant actors, especially horizontally among different city departments, in the urban food system is needed.
7. Managing your image
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Beth, Katjo (author), Leroy, Adrien (author), Madsen, Jens (author), and Read, Peter (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-06
- Published:
- International: John Deere (European Edition in English language)
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06584
- Journal Title:
- Furrow
- Journal Title Details:
- 120(2) : 14-18
- Notes:
- Includes 2014 research results involving consumer trust of farmers in countries throughout the world.
8. Market research in Germany
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brandt, Karl (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1936-07
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D07471
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Marketing
- Journal Title Details:
- 1 (1): 35-39
9. The farmers’ dilemma: Meat, means, and morality
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bryant, Christopher (author) and Van der Weele, Cor (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12-01
- Published:
- United States: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12511
- Journal Title:
- Appetite
- Journal Title Details:
- 167
- Notes:
- 6 pages., Evidence overwhelmingly supports the view that we need to drastically reduce our consumption of animal products for reasons related to the environment and public health, while moral concerns about the treatment of animals in agriculture are becoming ever more common. As governments increasingly recognize the need to change our food production and alternative protein products become more appealing to consumers, agriculture finds itself in a unique period of transition. How do farmers respond to the changing atmosphere? We present secondary analyses of qualitative and quantitative data to highlight some of the uncertainty and ambivalence about meat production felt throughout the farming community. Survey data from France and Germany reveals that in both countries, those who work in the meat industry have significantly higher rates of meat avoidance than those who do not work in the industry. While non-meat-industry workers are more likely to cite concerns for animals or the environment, meat industry workers more often cite concerns about the healthiness or safety of the products. Concurrently, interviews with people who raise animals for a living suggest that moral concerns among farmers are growing but largely remain hidden; talking about them openly was felt as a form of betrayal. We discuss these findings in the context of the ongoing agricultural transition, observe how tension has manifested as polarization among Dutch farmers, and offer some thoughts about the role of farmers in a new world of alternative proteins.
10. What should we do about animal welfare?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Appleby, Michael C. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- International: Blackwell Science Ltd., Oxford, England.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07326
- Notes:
- 192 pages.