The agro-food industry, public health, and environmentalprotection: investigating the Porter hypothesis in food regulation

Eric Giraud-Héraud (), Jean-Pierre Ponssard, Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné and Louis-Georges Soler
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Eric Giraud-Héraud: INRA, UR1303 ALISS, F-94205 IVRY-SUR-SEINE, France etGREThA, UMR5113 CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, F-33608 Pessac, France
Louis-Georges Soler: INRA, UR1303 ALISS, F-94205 IVRY-SUR-SEINE, France

Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 2016, vol. 97, issue 2, 127-140

Abstract: Sustainable food concerns have pushed public au-thorities to act by means of regulations, standards and otherdevices, and businesses to innovate in their products and pro-duction processes. We argue that the Porter hypothesis—whichasserts that properly designed and implemented environmentalregulation might be good for society as well as the targetedfirms—might well be verified in this context. After reviewingand illustrating the working principles and main criticisms ofthis hypothesis, we provide a more in-depth discussion of nu-tritional issues. While the literature generally points to organi-zational imperfections and market failures to validate the Porterhypothesis, we submit and model another rationale for the agro-food industry, a rationale that is based on consumer behavior.

Keywords: Sustainable; food.Regulation.Innovation.Consumer; behavior.Porter; hypothesis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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