scholarly journals Effects of lockdown over consumer behaviour and consumption practices covid-19: Pandemic review

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-433
Author(s):  
Ekta Melkani ◽  
Manju Mehta ◽  
Kiran Singh
Keyword(s):  
Food Habits ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Lifestyle Factors ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Consumption Practices

This review paper deals with the global studies of how consumers have been affected at a global level during past pandemics and how they are coping with the current pandemic of COVID-19 in world and in India. A relationship has been tried to be established of how situations and preparedness have been changed during pandemics in parts of government policies and consumers themselves. Lockdown has impacted the change in behavior among many consumers in different attributes of life like in electricity consumption, food habits and lifestyle factors. Agricultural sector has been widely impacted due to the lockdown and different farmers growing varied crops have been influenced differently.

scholarly journals Drought and Salinity in Citriculture: Optimal Practices to Alleviate Salinity and Water Stress

Agronomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1283
Author(s):  
Vasileios Ziogas ◽  
Georgia Tanou ◽  
Giasemi Morianou ◽  
Nektarios Kourgialas
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Cell Metabolism ◽  
High Water ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Fruit Tree ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Negative Effect

Among the various abiotic stresses, drought is the major factor limiting crop productivity worldwide. Citrus has been recognized as a fruit tree crop group of great importance to the global agricultural sector since there are 140 citrus-producing countries worldwide. The majority of citrus-producing areas are subjected to dry and hot summer weather, limited availability of water resources with parallel low-quality irrigation water due to increased salinity regimes. Citrus trees are generally classified as “salt-intolerant” with high water needs, especially during summer. Water scarcity negatively affects plant growth and impairs cell metabolism, affecting the overall tree growth and the quality of produced fruit. Key factors that overall attempt to sustain and withstand the negative effect of salinity and drought stress are the extensive use of rootstocks in citriculture as well as the appropriate agronomical and irrigation practices applied. This review paper emphasizes and summarizes the crucial role of the above factors in the sustainability of citriculture.

The Historical Evolution of Alternative Metrics for Developing Countries’ Food and Agriculture Policy Assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-334
Author(s):  
Tim Josling
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Equilibrium Models ◽  
Policy Assessment ◽  
General Equilibrium Models

The demand for quantitative assessments of the impacts of food and agricultural policies has grown steadily in the past four decades. From the application of social cost-benefit analysis to investments in developing countries in the 1970s to the use of increasingly sophisticated general equilibrium models today, the menu of available techniques for policy assessment has expanded rapidly. In addition, both partial and general equilibrium models have been developed to analyze world markets for agricultural commodities and the effects of government policies on such markets. Alongside the modeling of markets and the quantitative impact of policies, several indicators have been developed that build on trade policy measures, including effective protection and tariff equivalents. One example is the producer subsidy equivalent. This has been used by the OECD to estimate the level of support provided by government policies to the agricultural sector. The indicators have more recently been applied to developing countries as a form of benchmarking to give a snapshot of the transfers among stakeholders inherent in such policies.

Broadening the Scope of Ethical Consumer Behaviour

2015 ◽  
pp. 1887-1900
Author(s):  
J. W. Dushan Chaminda ◽  
Nilanthi Ratnayake
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Sexual Misconduct ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Ethical Consumerism ◽  
Ethical Consumer ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Responsible Business Practices ◽  
The Mind

Consumption is an essential everyday process. By very nature, it is a means of expressing our moral identities and an outlet for ethical obligations. In more recent years, ethical aspects of consumption have come under greater scrutiny with the emergence of ethical consumption discourses, and are currently associated with a range of consumer behaviours and responsible business practices. To this end, religion is an undeniably powerful and concurrently the most successful marketing force that can shape the ethical behaviour, yet under-investigated in consumption practices despite Corporate Socially Responsibility provoked ethical behaviour. Ethical consumption practices are regularly characterised as consumption activities that avoid harm to other people, animals or the environment where basic Buddhist teachings become more pertinent and practiced in Buddhist communities. This study conceptualises the importance of religious beliefs in ethical consumer behaviour and through researcher introspection methodology, the study empirically explore whether and how ethical consumerism is reflected through Five Precepts of Buddhism [i.e. (1) abstain from taking life, (2) abstain from stealing, (3) abstain from sexual misconduct, (4) abstain from false speech, and (5) abstain from intoxicants that cloud the mind]. The study contributes to the theory and teaching in the marketing discipline by linking how religious beliefs enhance ethical consumerism that remains largely unexplored.

Broadening the Scope of Ethical Consumer Behaviour

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-50
Author(s):  
J. W. Dushan Chaminda ◽  
Nilanthi Ratnayake
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Sexual Misconduct ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Ethical Consumerism ◽  
Ethical Consumer ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Responsible Business Practices

Consumption is an essential everyday process. By very nature, it is a means of expressing our moral identities and an outlet for ethical obligations. In more recent years, ethical aspects of consumption have come under greater scrutiny with the emergence of ethical consumption discourses, and are currently associated with a range of consumer behaviours and responsible business practices. To this end, religion is an undeniably powerful and concurrently the most successful marketing force that can shape the ethical behaviour, yet under-investigated in consumption practices despite Corporate Socially Responsibility provoked ethical behaviour. Ethical consumption practices are regularly characterised as consumption activities that avoid harm to other people, animals or the environment where basic Buddhist teachings become more pertinent and practiced in Buddhist communities. This study conceptualises the importance of religious beliefs in ethical consumer behaviour and through researcher introspection methodology, the study empirically explore whether and how ethical consumerism is reflected through Five Precepts of Buddhism [i.e. (1) abstain from taking life, (2) abstain from stealing, (3) abstain from sexual misconduct, (4) abstain from false speech, and (5) abstain from intoxicants that cloud the mind]. The study contributes to the theory and teaching in the marketing discipline by linking how religious beliefs enhance ethical consumerism that remains largely unexplored.

Sufficiency, Sustainability, and Innovation Media Moonshot

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-79
Author(s):  
Peter Titcomb Knight
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Tenfold Increase ◽  
Political Outcomes

This article introduces the role of innovation and exponential technologies to eliminate shortfalls in access to basic needs at a global level while achieving sustainability in four dimensions: economic, social, political and ecological. Next the article reviews the literature concerning the role of films and TV programs on influencing public opinion and producing changes in economic, social, and political outcomes. Several films and TV programs that have achieved this are presented, with documentation of their successes. Then a “media moonshot” is proposed to help develop support for public policies to accelerate progress toward sufficiency and sustainability through innovation. This would be achieved by helping finance a tenfold increase in production of films and TV programs in this field. Various fiction and non-fiction formats would be used. The goal proposed is to reach an audience of at least one billion people with measurable impacts on public opinion and government policies. Several examples of possible films and TV programs are presented.

scholarly journals Food Habits, Lifestyle Factors and Mortality among Oldest Old Chinese: The Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS)

Nutrients ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 7562-7579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zumin Shi ◽  
Tuohong Zhang ◽  
Julie Byles ◽  
Sean Martin ◽  
Jodie Avery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Habits ◽  
Oldest Old ◽  
Lifestyle Factors ◽  
Old Chinese ◽  
Healthy Longevity

Youth and Consumption

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Capuzzo
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Deviance ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
Conduct Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
The Impact

The kaleidoscope of social identity is defined by multiple forces of signification. Gender, ethnicity, and class trace porous borders of the social and symbolic space within which consumption practices unfold, changing, forcing, and sometimes even subverting the apparent fixity of those spaces. The transition from childhood to adulthood is marked by clear biological changes that affect the conduct of life and the ways in which to confront a series of phases in the form of the transformation and maturation of the body. The analysis of consumption practices can be useful in showing how young people define themselves. As part of a discussion on youth and consumption, this article focuses on cultures of consumption among young workers. It also discusses the social deviance and consumer behaviour of young people, the impact of advertising on the social representation of the youth body, films and fantasies, and the emergence of a youth mass market.

scholarly journals Government Policies To Improve Tobacco Farmers Business Results

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 06007
Author(s):  
Hezron Sabar Rotua Tinambunan ◽  
Hananto Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Business Results ◽  
Banking Institutions

Warehouse Receipt System suggest the potential that can be utilized on the implementation of the Warehouse Receipt System primarily in support of the financing, the minimization of price fluctuations, increase farmers’ income, credit mobilization, improvement of product quality and so on. However, implementation of warehouse receipt system in the agricultural sector is still faced a number of obstacles including transaction costs, inconsistencies in the quantity and quality of agricultural products, the lack of support banking institutions, and the still weak farmer institutions. With institutional farmers are not organized properly, the rules of the warehouse receipt system is still seen as too complicated so that the necessary simplification of procedures so that the warehouse receipt system could be used by farmers. In addition, the socialization of the Warehouse Receipt System and conducive government policy support will be an important factor so that the warehouse receipt system can be implemented optimally.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document