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The Impact of Sustainability Labelling on Consumers' Evaluation and Choice of Food Products: A Systematic Literature Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The last five years of research on sustainability labelling, reported in 175 journal articles, documents its effectiveness in increasing consumer choices of more sustainable food products. Some sustainability labels come out as stronger than others and their impact varies across products, countries, and individual consumers, depending on label
John Thøgersen, Lucía Romero‐Verdú, Anne O. Peschel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information source and content – Drivers for consumers’ valuation of fairly traded chocolate

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 2022
To learn about the role of information content and source as catalysts to increase consumers' valuation of fairly traded foods, we conducted an online survey with 2500 consumers representative of the German population.
Liza von Grafenstein, Sarah Iweala, Anette Ruml   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ecolabels as Instruments for Biodiversity Governance in Agri‐Food Systems: A Comparative Assessment of EU Certification Schemes

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity underpins ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services, yet it continues to decline due to intensive agriculture, pollution, habitat loss and climate change. Although ecolabels are increasingly used to communicate sustainability attributes and influence consumer choices, their role in addressing biodiversity ...
Marzieh Aminravan, Parthena Chatzinikolaou, Sina Ahmadikaliji, Luca Camanzi, Luca Mulazzani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Certification Adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises' Food Supply Chains: Using a Complexity Approach to Build up Foundations

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adopting certifications in food supply chains (FSCs) is a common practice for sustainable management, including among small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study investigates how SMEs in FSCs navigate the complexities of certification adoption for sustainable supply chain management (SSCM).
Belinda Borrello, Verónica León‐Bravo, Minelle Silva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

In search of the citizen-consumer: fair trade activism in the Netherlands since the 1960s

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2017
Postwar prosperity enabled citizens to express their views in new ways. The success of the movement for fair trade since the 1960s underlines the significance of the figure of the citizen-consumer in postwar history.
Peter van Dam
doaj   +1 more source

Castanhais & quilombos do Alto Trombetas (PA): uma proposta de justiça socioambiental

Estudos Avançados, 2023
RESUMO Este artigo analisa a bioeconomia da cadeia produtiva da castanha-do-pará de acordo com parâmetros socioeconômicos de justiça socioambiental. As metodologias utilizadas foram: (1) revisão bibliográfica, (2) observação participante in loco, (3) a ...
FELIPE SOUTO ALVES, PATRÍCIA CHAVES DE OLIVEIRA   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Global Standards to Local Compliance: Implementation Heterogeneity in Cocoa Certification in Indonesia

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certified companies translate voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) into local practice, yet little is known about how company‐level implementation of VSS relates to farmer compliance. This paper examines Rainforest Alliance (RA) implementation by three certified companies in the Indonesian cocoa sector. Drawing on compliance and regulatory
Charline Depoorter, Janne Bemelmans, Eva Boonaert, Axel Marx, Miet Maertens   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Badge: Do Sustainable Business Certifications Reflect Employees' Workplace Experiences? Evidence From Employee‐Reported Workplace Evaluations

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between sustainability certifications and employee satisfaction by conceptualizing certifications as external signals and internal organizational resources. Drawing on signaling theory and the resource‐based view (RBV), a purposively selected dataset of 172 certified firms and a comparison group of 20,026 ...
Malte Bau, Sumaya Islam, Michael Wunsch
wiley   +1 more source

Solidarity With Planet Earth: Predictors of Pro‐Environmental Behavior Among Adolescents and Young Adults

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Conceptualizing pro‐environmental behavior (PEB) as solidarity with planet Earth and as a socio‐ecological dilemma, it is argued that PEB results when humans prioritize positive long‐term consequences for the entire planet over positive short‐term individual gains. Therefore, it was tested whether four socio‐cognitive competencies
Dagmar Strohmeier, Nicolas Eric Neef, Siegmar Otto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reshaping Labor Intermediation: An Integrated Workforce Management Strategy to Contrast Agricultural Workers' Exploitation in Italy

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Labor exploitation within agri‐food supply chains poses significant ethical and managerial challenges, particularly in Mediterranean contexts where irregular employment practices persist. This study investigates the case of NoCap, a third‐party ethical certification initiative operating in Italy that integrates social responsibility into ...
Claudio Mirabella, Emanuele Schimmenti, Antonino Galati, Valeria Borsellino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source