Food Consumption during Covid-19: regional and sustainable please!

Achim Spiller Photo: University of Göttingen Göttingen University researchers survey German consumers on shopping, eating and cooking behaviour For the third time during the pandemic, researchers at the University of Göttingen have surveyed consumers in Germany. Participants filled in questionnaires about their shopping, eating and cooking behaviour, as well as their perception of the resilience of food systems during the coronavirus pandemic. The results confirm the main findings of the first two surveys: sustainability is increasingly important to many people when buying food, and they prefer homegrown farm produce. The current study also reflects new developments, such as the increased sense of stress among young people. The results of the third survey have been published in a discussion paper at the University of Göttingen's Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. For the data collection, the same people completed online surveys in April, June and November 2020. The participants are largely representative of the population in Germany in terms of age, gender, education and regional distribution.