Shaping Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems with Behavioural Food Policy

Lucia A. Reisch*

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Abstract

This paper focuses on policies that are enlightened by behavioural insights (BIs), taking decision-makers’ biases and use of heuristics into account and utilising a people-centric perspective and full acknowledgement of context dependency. Considering both the environmental and pandemic crises, it sketches the goal of resilient food systems and describes the contours of behavioural food policy. Conceptually built on BIs derived from behavioural economics, consumer research and decision science, such an approach systematically uses behavioural policies where appropriate and most cost-effective. BI informed tools (nudges) can be employed as stand-alone instruments (such as defaults) or used to improve the effectiveness of traditional policy tools.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftEuropean Review of Agricultural Economics
Vol/bind48
Udgave nummer4
Sider (fra-til)665-693
Antal sider29
ISSN0165-1587
DOI
StatusUdgivet - sep. 2021

Emneord

  • Resilient food systems
  • Behavioural insights
  • Consumer behaviour
  • Behaviour change
  • Demand side policy

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