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The willingness to consume organic food: A review
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Giving the rising interest in naturally grown foods; several studies have contrasted various features of organic and conventionally grown foods in relation to consumer attitudes, perceptions, and preference for organic foods. This paper aims to explore consumers’ willingness to consume organic foods; the extent and attributes of consumer knowledge and awareness about organic food as well as consumer attitudes and preferences for organically grown foods. Articles from different peer review journals were used to develop this paper. The findings of this paper show that human health, food safety, attitudes and perceptions and willingness to pay for a price premium are some of the factors influencing consumers’ willingness to consume organic foods. Therefore, there is a need to create more awareness in the food industry relating to the health benefits of consuming organic foods.
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“The literature on organic cos - metics suggests that a majority of consumers believe that these products are less likely to cause irritations and aller - gies, which strengthens the notion that organic production is safe (Eyinade et al., 2021 ).”
Kamanga, R., Bhikha, S., Kamala, F., Mwale, V., Tembo, Y., & Ndakidemi, P. (2025) · Insects · doi:10.3390/insects16020156 · Cited by 7
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“Eyinade et al. (2021) emphasized that issues of food safety, health, and environmental concerns are the main reasons people switch to organic products.”
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“Later on, a study (Eberle et al., 2022; Eyinade et al., 2021) depicts that having an optimistic attitude toward the environment can influence people to have a positive attitude toward consuming organic food.”
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“…consumer demand for organic produce has been steadily increasing due to perceived health and environmental benefits (Greene et al. 2017); and consequently, organically produced food often commands substantially greater market prices than conventionally produced food (Eyinade et al. 2021).”
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“Similarly, in a recent review study by Eyinade et al. (2021), human health, food safety, attitudes and perceptions, and willingness to pay for a price premium, are some factors influencing willingness to consume organic foods.”
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“Likewise, perceived ease of access has been examined in terms of price and availability (Eyinade et al., 2021; Shrestha & Baral, 2019), few studies investigate how consumers overcome these barriers through advo-cacy or rationalise the premium costs by emphasising health benefits (Ali & Ali, 2020;…”
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“Following Magnusson et al. (2003), we conceptualize the perceived importance of traceability information and environmental concerns as consumers’ perceptions that purchasing organic food is safe and healthy, and more environmentally friendly than conventional alternatives (Eyinade et al., 2021 ).”
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Price Differences Between Organic and Conventional Products in E-Commerce
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“The third hypothesis has been confirmed because attitudes are closely related to organic food consumption (Grunert & Juhl, 1995; Scalco et al., 2017; Basha & Lal, 2019; Liang & Lim, 2020; Tandon et al., 2020; Eyinade et al., 2021).”
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Customers Awareness and Purchase Behaviour towards Organic Food
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“As indicated by writing, these well-being concerns are tended to by organic cultivating and the work of more secure food handling techniques (Eyinade et al., 2021).”
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“Recent studies and comprehensive reviews also support the important determinants we reported in our 2005 publication (Eyinade, Mushunje and Yusuf, 2021; Gundala and Singh, 2021; Melhim, 2021; Huo, Ahmad and Teoh, 2024).”
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An Investigation on Organic Food Purchase Intention on E-Commerce Platforms
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Metadata
- Authors
- Eyinade, G. A., Mushunje, A., & Yusuf, S. F. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Fort Hare (ZA)
- Corresponding author
- Eyinade, Gabriel Adewunmi
- Venue
- Food and Agricultural Immunology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021-01
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 78-104
- ISSN
- 0954-0105 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-3443
- OpenAlex
- W3125741348
- Cited by
- 172
- References
- 213
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 47 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 4
- FWCI
- 16.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Food and Agricultural Immunology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Organic Food and Agriculture
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Keywords
- organic food, willingness to pay, consumer attitudes, consumer preferences, consumer knowledge, consumer awareness, food safety, health benefits, price premium, organic vs conventional food
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