IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/pojard/355903.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Organic food consumption as an informed lifestyle choice of the Polish population by age groups

Author

Listed:
  • Wojciechowska-Solis, Julia
  • Soroka, Andrzej

Abstract

The aim of this article is to identify whether Polish society consciously buys and consumes organic food as well as what motives guide their purchases and consumption. A diagnostic survey method with an author’s questionnaire was used to examine 3436 respondents from the whole Poland. The Statistica 10.1 PL program was applied to conduct statistical and discriminant analysis. It was shown that Polish consumers mainly emphasized a great importance of health qualities of organic food. The older respondents were more interested in the fact that their relatives consumed healthy food. Fresh vegetables and their products as well as eggs were the most common choices of organic food. The main places of purchase of organic food were discount stores and those specialized in selling organic food as well as organic farms. It was emphasized that respondents paid high importance to the accreditation of product certification body on food packages as well as the labeling that these products were produced in ecological conditions.

Suggested Citation

  • Wojciechowska-Solis, Julia & Soroka, Andrzej, 2017. "Organic food consumption as an informed lifestyle choice of the Polish population by age groups," Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development, University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland, vol. 45(3), March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:pojard:355903
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.355903
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/355903/files/ORGANIC%20FOOD%20CONSUMPTION%20AS%20AN%20INFORMED%20LIFESTYLE%20CHOICE%20OF%20POLISH%20POPULATION%20BY%20AGE%20GROUPS.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.355903?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Pamela R. D. Williams & James K. Hammitt, 2001. "Perceived Risks of Conventional and Organic Produce: Pesticides, Pathogens, and Natural Toxins," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 21(2), pages 319-330, April.
    2. Wojciechowska-Solis, Julia & Soroka, Andrzej, 2017. "Organic food consumption as an informed lifestyle choice of the Polish population by age groups," Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development, University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland, vol. 45(3), March.
    3. Mamouni Limnios, Elena & Schilizzi, Steven G.M. & Burton, Michael & Ong, Angeline & Hynes, Niki, 2016. "Willingness to pay for product ecological footprint: Organic vs non-organic consumers," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 338-348.
    4. Azucena Gracia & Jesús Barreiro-Hurlé & Belinda López- Galán, 2014. "Are Local and Organic Claims Complements or Substitutes? A Consumer Preferences Study for Eggs," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 65(1), pages 49-67, January.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Wojciechowska-Solis, Julia & Soroka, Andrzej, 2017. "Organic food consumption as an informed lifestyle choice of the Polish population by age groups," Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development, University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland, vol. 45(3), March.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Liu, Ruifeng & ,, 2021. "What We Can Learn from the Interactions of Food Traceable Attributes? a Case Study of Fuji Apple in China," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315916, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. Printezis, Iryna & Grebitus, Carola, 2018. "Marketing Channels for Local Food," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 161-171.
    3. Sylwia Żakowska-Biemans & Agnieszka Tekień, 2017. "Free Range, Organic? Polish Consumers Preferences Regarding Information on Farming System and Nutritional Enhancement of Eggs: A Discrete Choice Based Experiment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-16, November.
    4. Kassas, Bachir & Cao, Xiang & Gao, Zhifeng & House, Lisa A. & Guan, Zhengfei, 2023. "Consumer preferences for country of origin labeling: Bridging the gap between research estimates and real-world behavior," Journal of choice modelling, Elsevier, vol. 48(C).
    5. Morales, L. Emilio & Griffith, Garry & Fleming, Euan & Mounter, Stuart & Wright, Victor & Umberger, Wendy, 2020. "Preferences for Certified Beef with Animal Welfare and Other Credence Attributes in Australia," International Journal on Food System Dynamics, International Center for Management, Communication, and Research, vol. 11(03), September.
    6. Houtian Ge & Miguel I. Gómez & Timothy J. Richards, 2024. "The effect of price and assortment of local products on store performance: An agent‐based modelling approach," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 75(3), pages 981-1003, September.
    7. Eva Tebbe & Korbinian von Blanckenburg, 2018. "Does willingness to pay increase with the number and strictness of sustainability labels?," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 49(1), pages 41-53, January.
    8. Zhu, Zhanguo & Zhang, Tong & Hu, Wuyang, 2023. "The accumulation and substitution effects of multi-nation certified organic and protected eco-origin food labels in China," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 203(C).
    9. Ana I. Sanjuán‐López & Helena Resano‐Ezcaray, 2020. "Labels for a Local Food Speciality Product: The Case of Saffron," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 71(3), pages 778-797, September.
    10. Claudio Acciani & Annalisa De Boni & Francesco Bozzo & Rocco Roma, 2020. "Pulses for Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems: The Effect of Origin on Market Price," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-15, December.
    11. João M. Lopes & Micaela Pinho & Sofia Gomes, 2024. "From green hype to green habits: Understanding the factors that influence young consumers' green purchasing decisions," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(3), pages 2432-2444, March.
    12. Xuhui Wang & Frida Pacho & Jia Liu & Redempta Kajungiro, 2019. "Factors Influencing Organic Food Purchase Intention in Developing Countries and the Moderating Role of Knowledge," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-18, January.
    13. Qianfeng Luo & Pengfei Liu & Zhi Li, 2023. "The influence of African swine fever information on consumers’ preference of pork attributes and pork purchase," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 71(1), pages 49-68, March.
    14. Azucena Gracia & Miguel I. Gómez, 2020. "Food Sustainability and Waste Reduction in Spain: Consumer Preferences for Local, Suboptimal, And/Or Unwashed Fresh Food Products," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(10), pages 1-15, May.
    15. Shi, Wei & Halstead, John & Huang, Ju-Chin, 2016. "Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Locally Grown Produce: Comparison of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Results," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 236109, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    16. Lefèvre, Mélanie, 2014. "Do Consumers Pay More for What They Value More? The Case of Local Milk-based Dairy Products in Senegal," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, vol. 43(01), pages 1-20, April.
    17. Hempel, Corinna & Roosen, Jutta, 2020. "Die Bedeutung des bayerischen Bio-Siegels für Konsumenten in Bayern," 60th Annual Conference, Halle/ Saale, Germany, September 23-25, 2020 305597, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA).
    18. Hempel, Corinna & Roosen, Jutta, 2020. "Die Bedeutung des bayerischen Bio-Siegels für Konsumenten in Bayern," 60th Annual Conference, Halle/ Saale, Germany, September 23-25, 2020 305597, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA).
    19. Raza, Syed Ali & Shah, Nida & Nisar, Wasay, 2019. "Consumer Buying Behavior of Organic Food with Respect to Health and Safety Concerns among Adolescents," MPRA Paper 93570, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    20. Tan, Ruipeng & Lin, Boqiang, 2019. "Public perception of new energy vehicles: Evidence from willingness to pay for new energy bus fares in China," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 130(C), pages 347-354.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:pojard:355903. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.jard.edu.pl/en/main .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.