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Consumers’ Motivations Driving Organic Demand: Between Selfinterest and Sustainability

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We study consumers’ motivations for buying organic food by analyzing their shopping baskets. Buying organic can be motivated by concern about sustainable development and/or self-interest (considerations related to health or product quality). Pro-social motivation is inferred from the presence of fair trade products in the consumer's basket; consumer self-interest is deduced from the presence of healthy and higher-quality products bearing special quality labels or certifications. Our results indicate that environmental motivation predicts organic food purchases better than health or quality considerations: the complementarity between organic and fair trade products is strongest. In addition, the household's socioeconomic background influences secondary motivations.
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hal-02632229 , version 1 (27-05-2020)

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Sylvette Monier Dilhan, Fabian Berges. Consumers’ Motivations Driving Organic Demand: Between Selfinterest and Sustainability. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2016, 45 (3), pp.522-538. ⟨10.1017/age.2016.6⟩. ⟨hal-02632229⟩
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