Food safety consciousness and consumers’ milk purchasing behavior: Evidence from a developing country

We study the effects of food safety awareness on consumers’ milk purchasing behavior in Nepal. We conducted consumer survey and employed an instrumental variable regression. We find education, income, and social network to influence food safety consciousness (FSC). Our results indicate the positive...

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Autores principales: Thapa, Ganesh, Kumar, Anjani, Roy, Devesh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142662
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description We study the effects of food safety awareness on consumers’ milk purchasing behavior in Nepal. We conducted consumer survey and employed an instrumental variable regression. We find education, income, and social network to influence food safety consciousness (FSC). Our results indicate the positive impact of FSC on weekly milk expenditure and probability of purchasing milk from milk cooperatives. Any policy that helps to improve the FSC levels will likely increase the purchase of safe milk from the modern market outlet, and lack of such awareness raising policies has prevented the market for safe food from evolving and expanding.
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spelling CGSpace1426622025-02-24T06:47:37Z Food safety consciousness and consumers’ milk purchasing behavior: Evidence from a developing country Thapa, Ganesh Kumar, Anjani Roy, Devesh Joshi, Pramod Kumar models milk food policies capacity development food safety cooperatives consumers dairy industry We study the effects of food safety awareness on consumers’ milk purchasing behavior in Nepal. We conducted consumer survey and employed an instrumental variable regression. We find education, income, and social network to influence food safety consciousness (FSC). Our results indicate the positive impact of FSC on weekly milk expenditure and probability of purchasing milk from milk cooperatives. Any policy that helps to improve the FSC levels will likely increase the purchase of safe milk from the modern market outlet, and lack of such awareness raising policies has prevented the market for safe food from evolving and expanding. 2020-06-01 2024-05-22T12:10:50Z 2024-05-22T12:10:50Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142662 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.05.002 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133206 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134426 Open Access Cambridge University Press Thapa, Ganesh; Kumar, Anjani; Roy, Devesh; and Joshi, Pramod Kumar. 2020. Food safety consciousness and consumers’ milk purchasing behavior: Evidence from a developing country. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 52(4): 503-526. https://doi.org/10.1017/aae.2020.14
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milk
food policies
capacity development
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consumers
dairy industry
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Kumar, Anjani
Roy, Devesh
Joshi, Pramod Kumar
Food safety consciousness and consumers’ milk purchasing behavior: Evidence from a developing country
title Food safety consciousness and consumers’ milk purchasing behavior: Evidence from a developing country
title_full Food safety consciousness and consumers’ milk purchasing behavior: Evidence from a developing country
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title_short Food safety consciousness and consumers’ milk purchasing behavior: Evidence from a developing country
title_sort food safety consciousness and consumers milk purchasing behavior evidence from a developing country
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milk
food policies
capacity development
food safety
cooperatives
consumers
dairy industry
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