Wim Verbeke
Biographic Data
| ID | 315340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wim Verbeke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wim |
| FAMILY NAME | Verbeke |
| SIGNATURE | VERBEKE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9967-7104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 513 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Religion, Food Choices, and Demand Seasonality: Evidence from the Ethiopian Milk Market
The impact of religious behavior on food systems in developing economies has been understated in scholarly studies. With its different Christian, Islamic, and traditional faiths, Ethiopia emerges as a suitable country to investigate the impact of religious practices on demand. The inclusion of livestock products in Ethiopian diets is extremely low, even by African standards, a phenomenon often explained by supply and marketing problems combined w…
Unravelling the true drivers for eco-certified wood consumption by introducing scarcity
What is the value of sustainably-produced rice? Consumer evidence from experimental auctions in Vietnam
Little is known about the value of sustainably-produced rice and incentive mechanisms for the adoption of sustainable production standards throughout rice value chains in Southeast Asia. This study tests the feasibility of a market-based incentive mechanism by eliciting consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for rice produced and labeled under a national sustainable production standard in the South of Vietnam through experimental auctions. Domestic …
Empirical Investigation into Spatial Integration Without Direct Trade: Comparative Analysis Before and After the Establishment of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the spatial price cointegration of coffee markets in Ethiopia in the pre and post Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) era using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration framework. The study takes into consideration a market condition in which government policy restricts arbitrage coffee trade between coffee producing areas. Using coffee price data from 1998–2013 and applying a bounds tes…
Healthy, sustainable and plant-based eating: Perceived (mis)match and involvement-based consumer segments as targets for future policy
Chinese consumers and European beer: Associations between attribute importance, socio-demographics, and consumption
‘Would you eat cultured meat?’: Consumers' reactions and attitude formation in Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom
Challenges and prospects for consumer acceptance of cultured meat
Consumer acceptance of cultured meat is expected to depend on a wide diversity of determinants ranging from technology-related perceptions to product-specific expectations, and including wider contextual factors like media coverage, public involvement, and trust in science, policy and society. This paper discusses the case of cultured meat against this multitude of possible determinants shaping future consumer acceptance or rejection. The paper a…
Profiling consumers who are ready to adopt insects as a meat substitute in a Western society
Analogies, metaphors, and wondering about the future: Lay sense-making around synthetic meat
Drawing on social representations theory, we explore how the public make sense of the unfamiliar, taking as the example a novel technology: synthetic meat. Data from an online deliberation study and eighteen focus groups in Belgium, Portugal and the UK indicated that the various strategies of sense-making afforded different levels of critical thinking about synthetic meat. Anchoring to genetic modification, metaphors like ‘Frankenfoods’ and commo…
Sustainability labels on coffee: Consumer preferences, willingness-to-pay and visual attention to attributes
Consumers’ avoidance of information on red meat risks: Information exposure effects on attitudes and perceived knowledge
In accordance with cognitive dissonance theory, individuals generally avoid information that is not consistent with their cognitions, to avoid psychological discomfort associated with tensions arising from contradictory beliefs. Information avoidance may thus make risk communication less successful. To address this, we presented information on red meat risks to red meat consumers. To explore information exposure effects, attitudes toward red meat…
Motives for consumer choice of traditional food and European food in mainland China
Social media as a useful tool in food risk and benefit communication? A strategic orientation approach
Challenges and opportunities for dietary campaigns: Managerial perceptions of success factors
The objective of our research was to explore and discuss the challenges and opportunities inherent to the management of public healthy eating campaigns. The discussion is based on a study of campaign managers’ perceptions of nine successfully implemented European healthy eating campaigns. Based on these interviews, we suggest that social marketing compared to commercial food marketing is not necessarily at a disadvantage; rather, social marketers…
Public and Consumer Policies for Higher Welfare Food Products: Challenges and Opportunities
Consumer knowledge and use of information about fish and aquaculture
Reversing Urban Bias in African Rice Markets: Evidence from Senegal
Flemish consumer attitudes towards more sustainable food choices
Policies to promote healthy eating in Europe: A structured review of policies and their effectiveness
This review provides a classification of public policies to promote healthier eating as well as a structured mapping of existing measures in Europe. Complete coverage of alternative policy types was ensured by complementing the review with a selection of major interventions from outside Europe. Under the auspices of the Seventh Framework Programme's Eatwell Project, funded by the European Commission, researchers from five countries reviewed a rep…
Lessons for public health campaigns from analysing commercial food marketing success factors: A case study
The present study identified critical factors for the success of commercial food marketing campaigns related to the issue of nutrition and health, which are possibly transferable to the public health sector. Whether or not a particular factor contributes to future success depends on the specific context of use, the combination of factors and the environment. Consideration of the specific applicability of the success factors identified in this stu…
Assessment of evaluations made to healthy eating policies in Europe: A review within the Eatwell Project
Objective To identify and assess healthy eating policies at national level which have been evaluated in terms of their impact on awareness of healthy eating, food consumption, health outcome or cost/benefit. Design Review of policy documents and their evaluations when available. Setting European Member States. Subjects One hundred and twenty-one policy documents revised, 107 retained. Results Of the 107 selected interventions, twenty-two had been…
Evaluation of a Mixed Participatory Method to Improve Mutual Understanding Between Consumers and Chain Actors
In the research project, Medialog, a mixed participatory method, was applied to improve mutual understanding between consumers and chain actors in the French beef supply chain. This article presents a mixed methods evaluation of this participatory method using a SWOT analysis. The evaluation reveals several strengths of the participatory method such as dialogue and flexibility, as well as opportunities for wider application, for example, growing …
Consumer attitudes to different pig production systems: A study from mainland China
Transferability of private food marketing success factors to public food and health policy: An expert Delphi survey
Sustainable Food Consumption: Exploring the Consumer “Attitude – Behavioral Intention” Gap
Consumer-driven definition of traditional food products and innovation in traditional foods. A qualitative cross-cultural study
Association between traditional food consumption and motives for food choice in six European countries
Flemish consumer attitudes towards more sustainable food choices
Individual determinants of fish consumption: Application of the theory of planned behaviour
Food choice questionnaire revisited in four countries. Does it still measure the same
Healthy, sustainable and plant-based eating: Perceived (mis)match and involvement-based consumer segments as targets for future policy
Religious values informing halal meat production and the control and delivery of halal credence quality
Exploring the relationship between convenience and fish consumption: A cross-cultural study
Ethical Challenges for Livestock Production: Meeting Consumer Concerns about Meat Safety and AnimalWelfare
Consumers’ health-related motive orientations and ready meal consumption behaviour
Consumer appeal of nutrition and health claims in three existing product concepts
Citizens’ Views on Farm Animal Welfare and Related Information Provision: Exploratory Insights from Flanders, Belgium
Health-related attitudes as a basis for segmenting European fish consumers
Food-related lifestyles and their association to obesity in five European countries
Social media as a useful tool in food risk and benefit communication? A strategic orientation approach
Muslim consumer's motivations towards meat consumption in Belgium: Qualitative Exploratory Insights From Means-End Chain Analysis
Dans cette étude, la théorie du Means-End chain (MEC) a été utilisée afin d'examiner quelles caractéristiques de la viande fraîche sont importantes pour les consommateurs musulmans, quelles sont les motivations pour l'achat de viande (halal) et dans quelle mesure les tendances en consommation de viande sont applicables aux consommateurs musulmans. Au total 50 interviews, sur base de la technique laddering, concernant la consommation de la viande …
Motives for consumer choice of traditional food and European food in mainland China
Determinants of nutrition knowledge in young and middle-aged Belgian women and the association with their dietary behaviour
Public and Consumer Policies for Higher Welfare Food Products: Challenges and Opportunities
Association of overweight and obesity with interest in healthy eating, subjective health and perceived risk of chronic diseases in three European countries
Changes in dietary habits following temporal migration. The case of international students in Belgium
Dietary behaviour of pregnant versus non-pregnant women
Reversing Urban Bias in African Rice Markets: Evidence from Senegal
Consumer attitudes to different pig production systems: A study from mainland China
Consumer behaviour towards yoghurt in Belgium and Poland: A survey in two regions
The recent history of Poland is characterised by the process of transition from the centrally planned to a market‐oriented economy and by the new challenge of preparing for joining the EU. Several authors indicate that Polish consumers are more and more similar to European consumers in terms of consumer behaviour. The research under consideration aims to identify similarities and differences between Polish and Belgian consumers with respect to co…
Ethical Challenges for Livestock Production: Meeting Consumer Concerns about Meat Safety and AnimalWelfare
Determinants of the Willingness of Belgian Farmers to Participate in Agri‐environmental Measures
This paper explores the willingness of Belgian farmers to participate in two voluntary agri‐environmental policies. Farmers' contingent behaviour is analysed on the basis of survey data. Derivations based on a conceptual micro‐economic model indicate that decision subject and decision maker characteristics are important for farmers' participation. The model is empirically tested through the specification and estimation of a probit model. Consiste…
Evaluation of publicity measures relating to the EU beef labelling system in Belgium
Consumer acceptance of functional foods: Socio-demographic, cognitive and attitudinal determinants
Ethnic food attitudes and behaviour among Belgians and Hispanics living in Belgium
Purpose Awareness and testing of ethnic cuisine have increased in the past decades as a consequence of the growing international trade, migration, tourism and globalisation. This article aims to focus on the attitude and behaviour of Belgians towards Latin‐American ethnic foods, and of Hispanics living in Belgium towards mainstream Belgian food. Design/methodology/approach The role of socio‐demographic characteristics, food neophobia, and degree …
New Institutional Arrangements for Rural Development: The Case of Local Woolgrowers' Associations in the Transkei Area, South Africa
Until recently, smallholder farmers in the Transkei area had very limited access to a profitable market outlet for their wool. In response, the South African wool industry built shearing sheds, managed by a local association that sells directly to the brokers. This article investigates the effect of joint wool marketing through the shearing shed on the farmers' revenue from wool. A three-step regression model of the revenue from wool indicates th…
Consumer perception versus scientific evidence about health benefits and safety risks from fish consumption
Objective To investigate the gap between consumer perception and scientific evidence related to health benefits and safety risks from fish consumption. Design Consumer perceptions from a cross-sectional survey in March 2003 in Belgium were compared with scientific evidence based on a literature review. Method A quota sampling procedure was used with age as quota control variable. Subjects completed a self-administered questionnaire including heal…
Individual determinants of fish consumption: Application of the theory of planned behaviour
Functional foods: Consumer willingness to compromise on taste for health?
Sustainable Food Consumption: Exploring the Consumer “Attitude – Behavioral Intention” Gap
The relative importance of habitual and deliberative factors in food consumer behaviour
Muslim consumer's motivations towards meat consumption in Belgium: Qualitative Exploratory Insights From Means-End Chain Analysis
Dans cette étude, la théorie du Means-End chain (MEC) a été utilisée afin d'examiner quelles caractéristiques de la viande fraîche sont importantes pour les consommateurs musulmans, quelles sont les motivations pour l'achat de viande (halal) et dans quelle mesure les tendances en consommation de viande sont applicables aux consommateurs musulmans. Au total 50 interviews, sur base de la technique laddering, concernant la consommation de la viande …
Determinants of halal meat consumption in France
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of halal meat consumption within a Muslim migration population using the theory of planned behaviour as a conceptual framework. The role of self‐identity as a Muslim and dietary acculturation in the host culture is explored. Design/methodology/approach Cross‐sectional data were collected through a survey with 576 Muslims mainly originating from North Africa and currently living …
Religious values informing halal meat production and the control and delivery of halal credence quality
Dietary behaviour of pregnant versus non-pregnant women
Exploring the relationship between convenience and fish consumption: A cross-cultural study
Perceived Importance of Sustainability and Ethics Related to Fish: A Consumer Behavior Perspective
Although sustainability and ethics are of increasing public importance, little research has been conducted to reveal its association with fish consumer behavior. Cross-sectional data were collected through a postal self-administered survey (June 2005) from a sample of 381 Flemish women aged 20-50 years. Consumers attach high perceived importance to sustainability and ethics related to fish. However, this perceived importance is neither correlated…
Fish consumption and its motives in households with versus without self-reported medical history of CVD: A consumer survey from five European countries
Although a number of differences between CVD- and CVD+ subjects with respect to their frequency of fish intake are uncovered, the findings suggest that fish consumption traditions and habits - rather than a medical history of CVD - account for large differences between the countries, particularly in fatty fish consumption. This study exemplifies the need for nutrition education and more effective communication about fish, not only to the people f…
Fish consumption is a safe solution to increase the intake of long-chain n -3 fatty acids
Objectives Dietary intake of long-chain (LC) n -3 PUFA in developed countries is low compared with recommendations. Fish is naturally rich in LC n -3 PUFA, but is also a dietary source of heavy metals and organic pollutants. We investigated whether the recommendation for LC n -3 PUFA could be reached through fish consumption, without exceeding the provisional tolerable weekly intake of methylmercury (MeHg) and the tolerable weekly intake (TWI) of…
Sustainable food consumption among young adults in Belgium: Theory of planned behaviour and the role of confidence and values
Consumers’ health-related motive orientations and ready meal consumption behaviour
Consumer-driven definition of traditional food products and innovation in traditional foods. A qualitative cross-cultural study
Personal determinants of organic food consumption: A review
Purpose A lot of literature is available that discusses personal determinants of organic food consumption. However different models and determinants are used in the literature. This paper aims to provide an overview, within a framework linking Schwartz' values theory and the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Also it seeks to focus on the importance of affective attitude, emotions, personal norm, involvement and uncertainty related to organic foo…
Association of overweight and obesity with interest in healthy eating, subjective health and perceived risk of chronic diseases in three European countries
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