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A food product development project with humanitarian character: an exploratory study
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Agrárias | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 01:Erradicar a Pobreza | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 02:Erradicar a Fome | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 03:Saúde de Qualidade | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 04:Educação de Qualidade | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lucca, G. L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fonseca, S. Caldas | |
| dc.contributor.author | Moura, Ana Pinto de | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-10T16:36:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-10T16:36:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Vulnerable livelihood groups, such as the Fulanis in Guinea-Bissau, are affected by the consequences of inequality, as they lack access to healthy food, a healthy environment and adequate primary health care. Coordination between sectors can be key to building resilient food and health systems by integrating and scaling up preventive and emergency nutrition services, especially in the context of malnutrition. In 2021, a cashew-based food product was launched in Portugal in partnership with an NGO and a Portuguese food retailer. This study aims to explore the development and marketing of the product with humanitarian objectives, assessing its impact on the different stakeholders of the project. A mixed methodology was applied, combining the evaluation of consumer behavior, assessed through self-reported electronic questionnaires and in-depth interviews with the actors involved in the project. According to the retailer group stakeholders, a great opportunity for the future lies in developing new products with a humanitarian character. The results show that consumers are indeed interested in buying a product associated with a humanitarian cause, and that the product “100% Cashew Nut Butter” has a favorable consumer acceptance in terms of sensory attributes. The long-term nature of the project and the financial return were cited as strengths by all NGO stakeholders involved, but all stakeholders agreed that innovation was needed to sustain donations. Thus, this may be a cyclical process: businesses can create demand through product development, while management and consumers, in turn, drive demand. These findings can be used to improve the design of future projects that might use this as an example. | eng |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was Lucca et al. 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1394717 Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 10 frontiersin.org supported by national funds from the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through projects UIDB/05748/2020 (https://doi. org/10.54499/UIDB/05748/2020) and UIDP/05748/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/05748/2020) (GreenUPorto). The funding Institutions had no role in defining the research protocol, fieldwork, or even manuscript elaboration. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lucca GL, Caldas Fonseca S and Moura AP (2024) A food product development project with humanitarian character: an exploratory study. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 8:1394717. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1394717 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1394717 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/19502 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.publisher | Frontiers | |
| dc.relation | GreenUPorto - Research Center in Sustainable Agri-food Production | |
| dc.relation | UIDP/05748/2020 | |
| dc.relation.hasversion | https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-systems/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1394717/full | |
| dc.rights.uri | N/A | |
| dc.subject | Product development | |
| dc.subject | 100% Cashew Nut Butter | |
| dc.subject | Malnutrition | |
| dc.subject | Food system | |
| dc.subject | Guinea-Bissau | |
| dc.title | A food product development project with humanitarian character: an exploratory study | eng |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.awardTitle | GreenUPorto - Research Center in Sustainable Agri-food Production | |
| oaire.awardURI | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F05748%2F2020/PT | |
| oaire.citation.title | Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems | |
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| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |
| person.familyName | Moura | |
| person.givenName | Ana Pinto de | |
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| person.identifier.ciencia-id | EE1F-27E6-C356 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-9197-8183 | |
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| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 51161546800 | |
| project.funder.identifier | http://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871 | |
| project.funder.name | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | |
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