ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020
How to Effectively Encourage Sustainable Food Choices: A Mini-Review of Available Evidence.
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Investigating intervention components and their effectiveness in promoting environmentally sustainable diets: a systematic review.The Lancet. Planetary health · 2024Pooled it
- Traffic-light front-of-pack environmental labelling across food categories triggers more environmentally friendly food choices: a randomised controlled trial in virtual reality supermarket.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Trial
- Policy mix for a low-carbon food system.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
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- Perspectives of individuals on reducing meat consumption to mitigate climate change - a scoping review.BMC nutrition · 2025Article
- Perceived food value depends on display format, preference strength, and physical accessibility.Appetite · 2025Article
- Evaluation of nutritional, anthropometric, and psychological outcomes in different metabolic and bariatric surgery techniques: a follow up study.BMC surgery · 2025Article
- Combining mechanisms of action with behavior change techniques-theory-based development of an app promoting heating energy-saving behaviors.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Ego depletion and its role regarding the attitudes and behavior toward sustainable food consumption.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Effects of public policy interventions for environmentally sustainable food consumption: a systematic map of available evidence.Environmental evidence · 2024Article
- PO2/TransformON, an ontology for data integration on food, feed, bioproducts and biowaste engineering.NPJ science of food · 2023Article
- An exploration of nudging towards transformative environmental behaviour changes prior to a values-crystallization event.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Current dietary intake of the Japanese population in reference to the planetary health diet-preliminary assessment.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- The modulation of sustainability knowledge and impulsivity traits on the consumption of foods of animal and plant origin in Italy and Turkey.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- What evidence exists on the effects of public policy interventions for achieving environmentally sustainable food consumption? A systematic map protocol.Environmental evidence · 2022Article
- Filamentous FungusFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Beyond choice architecture: advancing the science of changing behaviour at scale.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Shifting to a Sustainable Dietary Pattern in Iranian Population: Current Evidence and Future Directions.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Review
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Abstract
Food choices are difficult to change. People's individual motivations (such as taste, cost, and food preferences) can be at odds with the negative environmental outcomes of their food choices (such as deforestation, water pollution, and climate change). How then can people be encouraged to adopt more sustainable food choices? This rapid review uses a dual-processing framework of decision-making to structure an investigation of the effectiveness of interventions to encourage sustainable food choices (e.g., local and organic food consumption, reducing meat and dairy intake, reducing food waste) via voluntary behavior change. The review includes interventions that rely on fast, automatic decision-making processes (e.g., nudging) and interventions that rely on more deliberate decision-making (e.g., information provision). These interventions have varying degrees of success in terms of encouraging sustainable food choices. This mini-review outlines some of the ways in which our understanding of sustainable food choices could be enhanced. This includes a call for the inclusion of possible moderators and mediators (past behavior, attitudes, beliefs, values) as part of effect measurements, because these elucidate the mechanisms by which behavior change occurs. In light of the climate change challenge, studies that include long-term effect measurements are essential as these can provide insight on how to foster sustained and durable changes.
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