Dr. Sarah Iweala
Sarah is a former member of the Research Training Group Global Food. In her research, Sarah is interested in factors that motivate consumers to go for the ethical option when they have the choice. For her PhD she analysed the role of the warm glow of giving in different study set ups, including choice experiments and experimental online auctions. She collaborated with fellow researchers to analyze the choices of consumers in Germany, the UK and China. It is particularly this joint work that she enjoyed during her PhD. Find out more about Sarah’s research: YouTube video - Buy good, feel good?.
Previously the officer for science communication at the faculty of agricultural sciences at the University of Göttingen, she is now the research assistant for the Scientific Advisory Board on Agricultural Policy, Food and Consumer Health Protection at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
Research interests:
- Behavioral economics
- Food products with ethical claims & consumer choice
- Methods: Surveys, choice experiments & experimental auctions
- Iweala, S. and Sun, Y. (2022) The many aspects of voluntary sustainability governance: Unpacking
consumers’ support for tea standards in China and the UK; in: Cleaner and Responsible Consumption; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100080 - Iweala, S., Spiller, A., Nayga, R.M. and Lemken, D. (2022) Warm glow and consumers’ valuation of ethically certified products; in: Q Open; https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoac020
- Spiller, A. und Iweala, S. (2022) Ist Bio die Zukunft? Politik für eine nachhaltigere Landwirtschaft, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte; https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/landwirtschaft-2022/507087/ist-bio-die-zukunft/
- von Grafenstein, L., Iweala, S. and Ruml, A. (2022) Information source and content–Drivers for consumers’ valuation of fairly traded chocolate; in: Cleaner and Responsible Consumption; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100071
- Iweala, S., Spiller, A. and Meyerding, S. (2019) Buy good, feel good? The influence of the warm glow of giving on the evaluation of food items with ethical claims in the U.K. and Germany; in: Cleaner Production (215); pp. 315 - 328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.266
Research project:
TRANSFORMThe impact of the climate crisis already changes the type of crops that can be grown in certain cli-mate regions. To support the adaptation of agricultural production to challenges of climate change, TRANSFORM aims to innovate climate-resilient crop rotations. To do so, this Horizon Europe project focuses on a variety of stakeholders, regional food chain conditions and the practical adaptability by farmers and agricultural consultants.
Completed:
RTG 1666: "GlobalFood" Transformation of Global Agri-Food Systems
GlobalFood combined approaches from agribusiness management, agricultural economics, development economics, and experimental economics in a novel way, to analyze the trends, driving forces, and implications of the agri-food system transformation and train a future generation of first-class researchers and policymakers in this international field.