Impact of Food Consumption and Consumer Choices on the Environmental Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 6210
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food choices; food labeling; consumer behavior; food; policy; innovation in the food sector
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is well-known that the food system has an increasingly disruptive impact on the environment. On the consumption side, we have witnessed a change in dietary patterns, with a constant shift of food consumption towards unhealthy products with high content in saturated fat, sugar, meat, and oils, whose production represent an important cause of environmental degradation. These changes in dietary habits pose a relevant problem in terms of climate and public health.
From the production side, the increasing industrialization of agricultural production and of the food-processing sector heighten the impact of the food system on the environment. In particular, livestock and dairy production play a pivotal role in this environmental impact due to the high amount of inputs required (e.g., fresh water, land, feed) and polluting output (e.g., methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia, and nitrate leaching).
All these elements may represent a challenge and an opportunity for consumers to increase the sustainability of the food system through their choices, and for producers to provide foods at a lower cost for the environment.
In this context, policy interventions should be aimed at implementing tools that can help to encourage sustainable consumption and production in order to mitigate the disruptive impact of the food system on climate change and on food-related diseases.
In this Special Issue, authors are encouraged to submit papers dealing with the environmental sustainability of the food system. Topics related to sustainable food choices, sustainable food and agricultural production, and policy tools aimed at promoting green and healthy production and consumption are particularly welcome.
Prof. Dr. Alessia Cavaliere
Dr. Daniele Curzi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable food consumption
- sustainable food production
- food policy
- food choice
- pro-environment behavior
- environmental standard
