Shaping healthy and sustainable food systems with behavioural food policy

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 cri...

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Published in:European review of agricultural economics 2021-09, Vol.48 (4), p.665-693
Main Author: Reisch, Lucia A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavioral economics
Contours
Cost analysis
Decision makers
Decision making
Dependency
Economic research
Environmental degradation
Food
Food consumption
Heuristic
Pandemics
Policies
Sketches
Sustainable food systems
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0165-1587
1464-3618
DOI:10.1093/erae/jbab024