Sustainable consumption of food: a case study of Slovak consumers
2016
Nagyova, L., Slovak Univ. of Agriculture in Nitra (Slovak Republic) | Kosiciarova, I., Slovak Univ. of Agriculture in Nitra (Slovak Republic) | Holiencinova, M., Slovak Univ. of Agriculture in Nitra (Slovak Republic)
The current environment is characterized by consumer society, in which the criteria by which to judge the maturity of individual markets include – maximum levels of comfort (especially in choosing and buying the product), convenience and growing product choice. These characteristics are the results of the change in consumer behaviour. The aim of the present paper was to realize the knowledge and application of the concept of sustainable consumption between and by the Slovak consumers. The method of structured questionnaire consisting of 12 questions was used. The total number of respondents was 300 randomly selected respondents. For a deeper analysis of the obtained results, seven assumptions have been set out and they have been tested with the use of Pearson´s chi-square test, Mann-Whitney U-Test, Fisher´s exact test and Cramer´s contingency coefficient. The results of the present paper show that while the knowledge of the term sustainable consumption is not very high between the Slovak consumers (21% of respondents could explain what means the term sustainable consumption), its application into their everyday life is pretty high – more than 67% of respondents buy the so-called economical packages of food, more than 49% of respondents buy products of ecological production, almost 40% of respondents do really consume all the food which they buy and only 19% of respondents does not separate the waste from the food which they eat.
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