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Raippalinna explores how consumers are mobilised for food waste reduction in media discourse. Food waste reduction initiatives are often criticised for putting the responsibility on individual consumers, but little research exists on the mobilisation of consumers in actual contexts. Through critical discourse analysis of media texts, Raippalinna investigates how the food waste problem and consumers are constructed in relation to each other in Finlands leading newspaper Helsingin Sanomat 2010–2017. The analysis demonstrates that the discourses of consumer mobilisation appear mostly as consumer education where the consumer's role is to manage individual consumption and household practices. The theoretical framework combines governmentality studies with a practice theoretical approach on consumption. Raippalinna discusses if and how media discourse can contribute to a transformation of food (waste) related practices. ; peerReviewed

This paper argues that food safety did not arise as a "new" obsession at the end of the twentieth century, but has been an intermittent object of public and policy concern over the last two hundred years in the UK. However, the nature of food policy has shifted over that period, from an orientation towards protecting a largely ignorant public from fraud, through controlling the risks potentially arising from negligence in food–handling, to informing rational consumers to enable them to "choose" the right foods. Most recently, the public have had a nominally more active role in food policy, as citizens consulted on the content of the policy agenda. Drawing on histories of food policy in the UK and social science research on consumers, this paper explores the links between the changing risks and publics addressed by British food policy.

The organic food industry of India is in its inceptive stage and the government has been introducing ample stratagems to flourish this industry. One such initiative is the certification of organic food products in order to ensure the authenticity of the products that are sold under the organic label. This research attempts to check the awareness level and opinion of the organic food consumers about the certification of organic food products. There exists a lack of awareness about these initiatives among the organic food consumers. This study also provides the practical implications of research results for the producers, farmers and marketers and provides suggestions to improve and integrate the organic food market.

AbstractA growing literature in health and nutrition suggests that healthy foods are less available and more expensive at nontraditional store formats such as supercenters, convenience stores, and drug stores. We use Nielsen Homescan data to investigate the relationship between store format and the healthfulness of consumers' grocery shopping. Accounting for a rich set of controls, as well as food retail market structure, we simultaneously estimate the healthfulness of consumers' food purchases and the shares of food expenditure at traditional and nontraditional store formations. We find that healthier food choices are generally associated with higher food expenditure shares at supermarkets and supercenters and lower shares at drug stores and convenience stores. In addition, market concentration has a negative effect on shopping healthfulness.

This study looks at food as a realm of political consumption by examining buycotting and boycotting of foods for ethical, political or environmental reasons in Finland. The results of an Internet-based survey (N = 1021) showed that around half of the respondents often or occasionally both buycotted and boycotted foods. Multinomial regression models indicated that women, the highly educated, the political left, those who donated for charity, those whose food choices were motivated by domestic origin and ethical food production, and those who trusted that consumption choices, institutional actors and the media can advance ethical food production and consumption, were most likely to be active in buycotting and boycotting. Buycotters/boycotters were very active in buying local food but less eager, for instance, to buy organic or Fair Trade products or to reduce the use of meat or milk. The article concludes by critically assessing the complex relationship between buycotting/boycotting and sustainable practices and suggesting that consumers may be more willing to transform their eating patterns if other societal actors, too, make an effort to influence ethical food consumption. ; Peer reviewed

Purpose
This study aims to identify the key factors that influence the intention and behavior of Chinese consumers toward purchasing organic food. The extended theory of planned behavior (TPB) model is adopted as the underlying theory to explore the relationship between attitudes (ATT), subjective norms (SN) and perceived behavioral control (PBC) on consumers' intention and behavior to buy organic food. Trust (TR) and the moderating role of short food supply chain preferences (SFSCPs) were integrated to address the research gap.


Design/methodology/approach
Three hundred three questionnaire responses were received from organic food buyers in China using a convenience sampling method. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and to examine the relationship between the various constructs.


Findings
The results demonstrated that the purchase intention (PI) of Chinese consumers correlates positively with ATT, SN, PBC and TR. Additionally, the results show that consumers' SFSCPs positively moderate the relationship between PI and purchase behavior (PB).


Practical implications
The findings of this study provide valuable insights for marketers to develop compelling messages that evoke positive ATT, establish consumer TR and integrate short food supply chains to drive PB. The study can also be useful to policymakers and other supply chain participants.


Social implications
An increased understanding of the factors influencing Chinese organic food consumption can contribute to promoting healthier food choices, supporting sustainable agriculture and fostering environmentally friendly consumption habits.


Originality/value
This research contributes to the existing pool of knowledge by incorporating TR into the conventional TPB. The study also introduces SFSCP as a moderating variable on the relationship between PI and PB.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Fighting Over Food: Change in the Agrifood System -- Contributors -- part I. conceptual framework -- 1. Agency and Resistance in the Sociology of Agriculture and Food -- 2. Agency and the Agrifood System -- 3. resistance, agency, and counterwork: a theoretical positioning -- PART II MAKING ROOM FOR AGENCY -- 4 counterhegemony or bourgeois piggery? food politics and the case of foodshare -- 5 resistance, redistribution, and power in the fair trade banana initiative -- 6 sustaining outrage: cultural capital, strategic location, and motivating sensibilities in the u.s. anti-genetic engineering movement -- 7 social life and transformation in salmon fisheries and aquaculture -- PART III CONSTRAINTS TO AGENCY -- 8 infertile ground: the struggle for a new puerto rican food system -- 9 possibilities for revitalizing local agriculture: evidence from four counties in washington state -- 10 consumers and citizens in the global agrifood system: the cases of new zealand and south africa in the global red meat chain -- conclusion: from mindful eating to structural change -- INDEX