Sustainability Labels on Olive Oil: A Review on Consumer Attitudes and Behavior

Product labeling is a way to inform consumers and increase their awareness about sustainability attributes of products. It guarantees the use of specific production conditions, promotes market incentives and highlights environmental, social and/or ethical product attributes. This study provides a li...

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Autores principales: Yamna Erraach, Fatma Jaafer, Ivana Radić, Mechthild Donner
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/855a237a3ae24445bf00a65bdf3d9fed
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Sumario:Product labeling is a way to inform consumers and increase their awareness about sustainability attributes of products. It guarantees the use of specific production conditions, promotes market incentives and highlights environmental, social and/or ethical product attributes. This study provides a literature review of sustainability labels on olive oil including consumer attitudes and behavior towards this product. Results show that consumers have positive attitudes towards olive oil carrying sustainability labels and are willing to pay more for olive oil carrying those labels. However, the major drivers of this behavior are far from being related to sustainability. This insight jeopardizes the main objective of those labels and suggests more clarifications about the information delivered by them. More in-depth investigations are needed about the drivers of consumer behavior towards olive oil carrying sustainability labels.