COVID-19 and beef consumption in Colombia: Effects on consumer preferences and beliefs

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought impacts on the food system in several ways, such as on the supply and demand of food or changes in consumer preferences. The effects on consumer preferences are directly resulting from changes in people’s daily lives and living conditions. Households challenge incom...

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Autores principales: Mejía Tejada, Daniela, Charry, Andrés, Díaz, Manuel Francisco, Enciso, Karen, Burkart, Stefan
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Publicado: Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/124958
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author Mejía Tejada, Daniela
Charry, Andrés
Díaz, Manuel Francisco
Enciso, Karen
Burkart, Stefan
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Charry, Andrés
Díaz, Manuel Francisco
Enciso, Karen
Mejía Tejada, Daniela
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Charry, Andrés
Díaz, Manuel Francisco
Enciso, Karen
Burkart, Stefan
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has brought impacts on the food system in several ways, such as on the supply and demand of food or changes in consumer preferences. The effects on consumer preferences are directly resulting from changes in people’s daily lives and living conditions. Households challenge income reductions and, in turn, change their food consumption decisions, causing e.g., substitution effects or panic buying behaviour. However, little is known yet about the magnitude of these effects but needs to be analysed to define actions and policies for crisis mitigation and achieving food system resilience and food security. In this study, we estimate the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on changes in food consumer preferences in Colombia, applying a logit model approach for seven attributes, namely animal welfare, environmental sustainability, information on the origin and manufacturing of food, food appearance, food price, fair payment to the producer, and food packaging. In addition, we provide an analysis of changes in beef consumption during the lockdown since the beef industry is among Colombia’s most important agricultural activities and is heavily affected by substitution effects. Data was obtained in July 2020 during the peak of the COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia, through a virtual survey with 581 food consumers in the four major cities Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, and Barranquilla. Our results show that consumer beliefs regarding these attributes remained mostly stable, but that income is a determining factor for the decision to consume certain types of food, such as beef, rather than for possible changes in beliefs. This means that income ends up being decisive for the consumption of food such as beef and that, for its part, it does not have a greater weight in the change of beliefs of the people surveyed. The results will help the food system actors in defining interventions for achieving food security and resilience.
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spelling CGSpace1249582025-12-08T10:29:22Z COVID-19 and beef consumption in Colombia: Effects on consumer preferences and beliefs Mejía Tejada, Daniela Charry, Andrés Díaz, Manuel Francisco Enciso, Karen Burkart, Stefan covid-19 consumer behaviour food systems domestic consumption beef comportamiento del consumidor sistemas alimentarios carne de res The COVID-19 pandemic has brought impacts on the food system in several ways, such as on the supply and demand of food or changes in consumer preferences. The effects on consumer preferences are directly resulting from changes in people’s daily lives and living conditions. Households challenge income reductions and, in turn, change their food consumption decisions, causing e.g., substitution effects or panic buying behaviour. However, little is known yet about the magnitude of these effects but needs to be analysed to define actions and policies for crisis mitigation and achieving food system resilience and food security. In this study, we estimate the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on changes in food consumer preferences in Colombia, applying a logit model approach for seven attributes, namely animal welfare, environmental sustainability, information on the origin and manufacturing of food, food appearance, food price, fair payment to the producer, and food packaging. In addition, we provide an analysis of changes in beef consumption during the lockdown since the beef industry is among Colombia’s most important agricultural activities and is heavily affected by substitution effects. Data was obtained in July 2020 during the peak of the COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia, through a virtual survey with 581 food consumers in the four major cities Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, and Barranquilla. Our results show that consumer beliefs regarding these attributes remained mostly stable, but that income is a determining factor for the decision to consume certain types of food, such as beef, rather than for possible changes in beliefs. This means that income ends up being decisive for the consumption of food such as beef and that, for its part, it does not have a greater weight in the change of beliefs of the people surveyed. The results will help the food system actors in defining interventions for achieving food security and resilience. 2022-09-16 2022-10-10T10:51:52Z 2022-10-10T10:51:52Z Poster https://hdl.handle.net/10568/124958 en Open Access application/pdf Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture Mejía-Tejada, D.; Charry, A.; Díaz, M.F.; Enciso, K.; Burkart, S. (2022) COVID-19 and beef consumption in Colombia: Effects on consumer preferences and beliefs. Poster prepared for Tropentag 2022 - Can Agroecological Farming Feed the World? Farmers' and Academia's Views. Prague, Czech Republic, 14-16 September 2022. Cali (Colombia): Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT. 1 p.
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consumer behaviour
food systems
domestic consumption
beef
comportamiento del consumidor
sistemas alimentarios
carne de res
Mejía Tejada, Daniela
Charry, Andrés
Díaz, Manuel Francisco
Enciso, Karen
Burkart, Stefan
COVID-19 and beef consumption in Colombia: Effects on consumer preferences and beliefs
title COVID-19 and beef consumption in Colombia: Effects on consumer preferences and beliefs
title_full COVID-19 and beef consumption in Colombia: Effects on consumer preferences and beliefs
title_fullStr COVID-19 and beef consumption in Colombia: Effects on consumer preferences and beliefs
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 and beef consumption in Colombia: Effects on consumer preferences and beliefs
title_short COVID-19 and beef consumption in Colombia: Effects on consumer preferences and beliefs
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topic covid-19
consumer behaviour
food systems
domestic consumption
beef
comportamiento del consumidor
sistemas alimentarios
carne de res
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