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Stakeholder skepticism and pragmatic approaches for True Price Labeling

Sebastian Malte Carlsson, Erik Hunter, Edona Arnesen, Anne O. Peschel, Lennart Stein, Benjamin Oebel, Tobias Gaugler, Mark de Jong, John Thøgersen

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · 2025

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Summary

The global food system generates considerable negative externalities like greenhouse gas emissions, soil degradation, biodiversity loss, and labor inequities. Scholars advocate for internalizing these costs through True Cost Accounting (TCA), which reveals food’s True Price (TP) by reflecting the costs of externalities. Communicating TP to consumers via a True Price Label (TPL) has been proposed, however extant research lacks stakeholders’ insights into TPLs which are necessary for refining TCA methodology. This study explores the attitudes of nine value chain stakeholders across the EU toward supporting, adopting, and (possibly) improving True Price labeling in their organizations. Thematic analysis was used to identify stakeholder skepticism about TP calculations and price impacts as wel

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3389/fsufs.2025.1599970
Catalogue ID
SNmok6mmgu-s4ltai
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