The evidence for the effectiveness of nutrition policy interventions is growing. For the implementation of such interventions, social acceptability is crucial. Therefore, this study provides insight into public support for nutrition policy measures such as labelling and taxation. Further it...

The substitution of meat with legumes is one way of making food consumption more sustainable. The substitution would ease the debate on food security and is aligned with the recommendations of climate change experts. Consumer preferences on whether meat should be substituted and how meat can be...

Recommendations on how to address global food security and agricultural productivity challenges are presented. The following are suggested, among others: reducing consumption of meat and animal products in industrial countries; tackling the throw-away problem in industrial countries; undertaking a...

The search for approaches to a holistic sustainable agriculture requires the development of new cropping systems that provide additional ecosystem services beyond biomass supply for food, feed, material, and energy use. The reduction of chemical synthetic plant protection products is a key...

The question of what constitutes a more sustainable diet is more difficult to answer than is often assumed by the public. At the same time, the researchers as consumers are confronted with nutritional environments that make it more difficult to shop and eat more sustainably. Against this...

Public concerns regarding the quality of life of farm animals are often focused on specific practices such as separating the cow and calf immediately after birth. The available scientific literature provides some evidence in support of this practice (including reduced acute responses to separation...

Farmers as well as the agricultural and food industry are confronted with increasingly diverse social requirements regarding livestock farming. In this context, there are environmental and climate protection concerns, but especially the living conditions of the animals are criticized. In addition...

To prevent false impressions given by visual packaging elements and to provide legal protection, many manufacturers label food with qualifying verbal information, e.g. serving suggestion or filling quantity technically limited. The precise wording of these designations is not stipulated by law....

A first representative online survey of the population of Germany with regard to their shopping, eating and cooking behaviour as well as the food system's resistance to the crisis during the COVID-19 lockdown was conducted in April 2020. The same group of people were interviewed for a second time...