Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to estimate consumers’ preferences for environmentally sustainable beef products, with the aim of developing and promoting environmentally sustainable products in South Africa. The findings reveal that there is profound preference heterogeneity at segment level for environmentally sustainable beef products. Three distinct consumer segments were identified. We demonstrate that socioeconomic factors, public awareness creation and campaigns on threats posed by climate changes, subjective and objective knowledge on environmental sustainability significantly explain consumers’ choice of environmentally sustainable beef products. Furthermore, it is concluded that there are relevant segmental equity issues that need to be addressed when designing environmental sustainability policies to promote environmentally sustainable products. Finally, we demonstrate that there is a potential market for environmentally sustainable products in South Africa.

Published in

International journal of agricultural management
2019, Volume: 8, number: 3, pages: 112-118

SLU Authors

• Owusu Sekyere, Enoch

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Economics


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5836/ijam/2019-08-112

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/103763