Consumer attitudes and behaviors toward more sustainable diets: a scoping review

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dc.contributor.authorKenny, Taraen
dc.contributor.authorWoodside, Jayne V.en
dc.contributor.authorPerry, Ivan J.en
dc.contributor.authorHarrington, Janas M.en
dc.contributor.funderSafefooden
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-12T11:49:17Z
dc.date.available2023-10-12T11:49:17Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-04en
dc.description.abstractThere is an urgent need to move toward more sustainable diets. Although this will require radical and systemic changes across food systems, altering consumer ideologies and practices is essential to garner support for such actions. In this scoping review, the evidence on consumers’ attitudes and behaviors toward more sustainable diets is synthesized and a range of factors, considerations, and proposed strategies are presented that can contribute to building the societal-level support for urgent and systems-level changes. The findings suggest that consumers, insofar as they are interested in sustainability and have the capacity to engage with the concept, primarily approach the concept of sustainable diet from a human health perspective. However, the interconnectedness of human health and well-being with environmental health is poorly understood and under-researched in the context of consumer behaviors and attitudes toward sustainable diets. This highlights the need for (1) sustained efforts from public health professionals to encourage a realignment of the term sustainable diet with its multidimensional meaning by championing an ecological public health approach in all efforts aimed at promoting more sustainable consumption, from awareness raising to policy development; (2) a broader research lens focused on the multidimensional concept of sustainability in the literature exploring consumer attitudes and behaviors; and (3) the development of multidisciplinary, clear, and evidence-based sustainable-eating messages, including holistic sustainable dietary guidance, to address knowledge gaps, minimize conflicting narratives, and build consumer agency. The findings contribute to understanding how support can be generated for the necessary structural and system-level changes required to support behavior change.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSafefood, the Food Safety Promotion Board (Project no. 03–2020)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleidnuad033en
dc.identifier.citationKenny, T. A., Woodside, J. V., Perry, I. J. and Harrington, J. M. (2023) 'Consumer attitudes and behaviors toward more sustainable diets: a scoping review', Nutrition Reviews, nuad033 (15pp). doi: 10.1093/nutrit/nuad033en
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/nutrit/nuad033en
dc.identifier.eissn1753-4887en
dc.identifier.endpage15en
dc.identifier.issn0029-6643en
dc.identifier.journaltitleNutrition Reviewsen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15110
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.rights© 2023, the Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Life Sciences Institute. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.comen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectConsumer behaviors and attitudesen
dc.subjectFood policyen
dc.subjectSustainable dietsen
dc.titleConsumer attitudes and behaviors toward more sustainable diets: a scoping reviewen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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