THE PUZZLES OF LOCAL FOOD CONSUMPTION. Empirical Insights regarding Profiles, Motivations, and Discourses

This book summarizes the results of my postdoctoral research1 in the field of sustainable consumption. The aim of the project was to reveal several aspects of Romanians’ food consumption, mostly in terms of their adherence to sustainable forms of food consumption such as local food. For this purpose, literature reviews, secondary analyses on existing data, and empirical investigations were realized, whose outcome is presented in the following pages.