MAPP Centre

Welcome to the MAPP Centre – Research on Value Creation in the Food Sector for Consumers, Industry and Society.  

We conduct research that generates insights into people´s perception and behaviour in the agricultural and food system. We study behaviour of stakeholders, customers, and citizen-consumers in the area of food, drink and related services and sectors, and develop implications for industry and public policy.    


VR Retail lab - part of FOODHAY project

The MAPP Centre and the Commercial and Retail Management group have jointly developed the 
VR Retail lab. This was funded by FOODHAY - FOODHAY is the Food and Health Open Laboratory, funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. 


Nordic-Baltic consumer sustainability understanding in a food context 

Four colleagues of the MAPP Centre have studied Food sustainability understanding in the Nordic-Baltic region, through a representative, cross-country survey, to serve as a basis for a labelling framework in Europe. The report can be found here https://pub.norden.org/temanord2023-530/ - or see this video for a breakdown of core findings:  


Citizen-consumer understanding of upcycling in the food system 

In the PlantPro project, MAPP Centre has amongst others explored citizen-consumer understanding and perception of ‘upcycling’ as a concept and through the resulting products. See how this was done, and a glimpse of the reasons and reactions, in this video: 


Biotech meets the consumer plate: When microbes make food - what do consumers think about precision fermentation?

From biotech breakthroughs to future foods, the EIT Food project "Precision Fermentation: From Biotechnology to Sustainable Nutrition" explored how consumers understand this emerging technology and its potential for sustainable nutrition.

Watch the video to discover what consumers really think , and what the project revealed.


MAPP publications

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Scholderer, J. (2001). Consumer perception of risk. In Proceedings of the 28th International EBC Congress European Brewing Convention.
Bech, A. C., Grunert, K. G., Bredahl, L., Juhl, H. J. & Poulsen, C. S. (2001). Consumers' quality perception. In L.J. Frewer, E. Risvik, H.N.J. Schifferstein & R. von Alvensleben (eds) (Ed.), Food, People and Society: A European Perspective of Consumers' Food Choices (pp. 97-113). Springer.
Grunert, K. G. (2001). Current issues in the understanding of consumer food choice. Paper presented at III Congresso Internacional de Economia e Gestao de Negócios Agroalimentares, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil.