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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 17:50:39 CST
From: Phyllis Stumbo <cmdstm@iacrcv.crc.uiowa.edu>
To: fnspec_mg@ecn.purdue.edu
The following posting from the Food-For_Thought discussion
group through UK might be of interest to US researchers:
(forwarded by Phyllis Stumbo, U of Iowa)
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I am presently member of a Swedish research group planning a large-scale
project concerned with sustainable agricultural production. If funded
(only a planning grant available so-far), the project is estimated to run
for at least 10 years, involving 15 groups of researchers. The project aims
to grasp a number of areas from soil sciences, crop and animal production
to production methods, product quality and consumer issues. My area of
responsibility in this project concerns consumer issues. I would appreciate
to get in contact with researchers doing work on consumer issues with
an environmental/sustainability angle. The planned project will deal
with consumer issues at least from two perspectives: food choice and the
consumer as an "environmental agent" (mainly recycling, composting). My
background is in psychology, notably the psychology of food choice.
Factors facilitating/hindering the adoption of environmentally friendly
life-styles is another of my interests. The main problem that we attempt
to attack within the consumer part of the project concerns factors
influencing the probability that consumers accept/prefer food items
produced within a sustainable agricultural production system, as well
as their willingness to accept an increased responsibility as
"environmental agents"
PO Sjvdin
Per-Olow Sjoden
Centre for Caring Sciences
Uppsala university,Glunten
S-751 83 Uppsala, Sweden
phone: + 46 18 183481,fax: + 46 18 183490
Per-Olow.Sjoden@ccs.uu.se