Given that existing food eco-labels are still not well defined in consumers' experience, there is potential for new labels to generate more confusion. Consumers incur fixed costs to learn about a label's meaning. Market shares for existing certifications may be eroded by perceptions that new...

Eco-labeling has been heralded as a market-based approach useful in addressing environmental issues. While a growing number of eco-labeling projects are found in nations around the world, most models examining eco-labeling effects tend to be focused either on environmental impacts or consumer...

Sustainability has become one of the constant concerns of active participants in the food chain: producers, traders, consumers, and regulators. The paper aims to identify consumers' perceptions of the use of sustainable food packaging, in an exploratory survey of a sample of 280 respondents,...