Promoting sustainable food behaviour with digital tools: opportunities and challenges

Abstract

Shifting toward a more sustainable agri–food system is imperative in today’s world. Besides optimising food production processes, we also need to look at the consumer angle to ensure consumer behaviour change. Digital applications, increasingly becoming a part of our daily lives, offer a promising avenue for effecting this change. This review presents a snapshot of recent research on the design, assessment, and user engagement of digital tools aimed at fostering sustainable consumer practices. It critically examines the limitations and ethical considerations of these technologies, concluding with a forward-looking perspective on the integration of new technologies like extended reality and smart devices to develop more compelling behaviour change interventions.