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000089748 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-3096-302X$$aGracia, A.$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000089748 245__ $$aFood sustainability and waste reduction in Spain: Consumer preferences for local, suboptimal, and/or unwashed fresh food products
000089748 260__ $$c2020
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000089748 5203_ $$aImproving food sustainability and reducing food waste are among the top challenges for achieving global sustainable development. In particular, changes towards more sustainable consumption are of vital importance in creating a more sustainable world. To shed light on these issues, we analyze to what extent and how consumers'' food preferences move towards more sustainable behavior. We assess the importance consumers attach to the following critical sustainable attributes of food related to food waste: (i) "Visual imperfections", (ii) "washed/unwashed", (iii) "size", (iv) "locally produced", and (v) "price". We hypothesize that consumer preferences for these attributes are heterogeneous. Therefore, we segmented consumers into homogenous groups according to preferences for these sustainability attributes. To do this, we employed a direct ranking preference method using data gathered in an experiment conducted with consumers living in a mid-sized town in the northeast of Spain in 2018. The results suggest a high degree of consumer heterogeneity, and we identified four clusters according to the importance consumers attach to these attributes. The results are encouraging for the promotion of sustainability because different groups of consumers might prefer to purchase food products with different sustainable characteristics, such as locally grown, foods with visual imperfections, and minimally processed foods.
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000089748 591__ $$aENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES$$b124 / 273 = 0.454$$c2020$$dQ2$$eT2
000089748 593__ $$aEnergy Engineering and Power Technology$$c2020$$dQ1
000089748 591__ $$aENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES$$b60 / 125 = 0.48$$c2020$$dQ2$$eT2
000089748 593__ $$aEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)$$c2020$$dQ1
000089748 591__ $$aGREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY$$b30 / 44 = 0.682$$c2020$$dQ3$$eT3
000089748 593__ $$aRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment$$c2020$$dQ1
000089748 591__ $$aGREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY$$b6 / 9 = 0.667$$c2020$$dQ3$$eT3
000089748 593__ $$aManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law$$c2020$$dQ1
000089748 593__ $$aGeography, Planning and Development$$c2020$$dQ1
000089748 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
000089748 700__ $$aGómez, M.I.
000089748 7102_ $$15011$$2235$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. CC.Agrar.y Medio Natural$$cÁrea Econom.Sociol.Polit.Agra.
000089748 773__ $$g12, 10 (2020), 4148 [15 pp]$$pSustainability (Basel)$$tSustainability (Switzerland)$$x2071-1050
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