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Sustainable food and agriculture Location: Auditorium L: Ingrid Simonnæs Session Chair: Thilo K.G. Haverkamp, University of Kassel | |
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Policy packaging for sustainable food choice? Empirical evidence from a multi-component change in a university canteen University of Kassel, Germany Reducing meat and animal product consumption is an essential component of climate change mitigation efforts in high-income countries. In recent years, a large body of literature has emerged that assesses the potential of market-based and behavioral instruments in various food choice contexts. We add to this evidence by investigating the impact of an abrupt change in pricing and positioning for vegan, vegetarian and meat-based main meals in a university canteen that occurred in October 2022. Our main analysis encompasses about 700.000 transactions from January 2022 to December 2023. We estimate that the change resulted in an increase of about 10% in vegan meal choices, despite a high baseline level of vegan choice. Our results also suggest that meat and fish meal choices were largely reduced by gradual changes in pricing and positioning that already occurred before October 2022, and decreased slightly more due to reductions in their availability coinciding with the abrupt change in pricing and positioning. | |