An innovative methodology developed by BASIC has been applied to analyze the impacts of 11 sustainability labels in 15 product categories on the French food market. Based on a comprehensive literature review, the study investigates the requirements defined in their standards, as well as the ancillary actions they conduct in order to develop sustainable value chains and consumption. It is also based on a series of interviews with each pilot of label (so as to understand their intentions) as well as a modelling of the links between the effects of each label and the sustainability issues related to food.<\/p>\n
This new study provides precise and verified information on the potential impact of the labels analyzed on a wide range of food-related environmental issues<\/strong> (climate change, biodiversity, etc.) and socio-economic issues<\/strong> (impact on human health, animal welfare, etc.), so as to enable citizens make better informed choices of consumption.<\/p>\n Three groups of labels were identified:<\/p>\n In particular, the study shows that some food labels show a big gap between their socio-economic and environmental benefits and their stated intentions.<\/p>\n To access the full results of our evaluation, see the dedicated website developed by BASIC to navigate the results (in French)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Finally, this study enables to feed the technical and political debates on food labels, the associated regulatory framework, and the forms of public support that can be granted to them. Based on the results, Greenpeace and WWF have made the following recommendations:<\/p>\n For further information:<\/p>\n In the French medias :<\/p>\n An innovative methodology developed by BASIC has been applied to analyze the impacts of 11 sustainability labels in 15 product categories on the French food market. Based on a comprehensive literature review, the study investigates the requirements defined in their standards, as well as the ancillary actions they conduct in order to develop sustainable value […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[456],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basic.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basic.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basic.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basic.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basic.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/basic.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6450,"href":"https:\/\/basic.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/6450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basic.coop\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basic.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basic.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basic.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
A highly political subject<\/b><\/h3>\n
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