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Accepted: 3 May 2024

First Online: 9 July 2024

Declarations

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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.

: Approval was obtained from the Research Assessment Committee (RAC) of Wageningen University &Research. The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.Prior to initiating research, the proposed research as a part of the PhD proposal with detailed section on ethics in research involving human participants, in particular, interviews with business representatives, was presented to the Research Assessment Committee (RAC) of Wageningen University & Research (School of Social Sciences) and received approval on 28 October 2022.Authors confirm that the topic of research was not of a sensitive nature and that anonymous interviewees were not exposed to physical, emotional, social, political or legal risks by participating in this research. As a result, this research did not require ethical approval according to the guidelines of the Wageningen University’s Social Sciences Ethics Committee in addition to the approval of the Research Assessment Committee (RAC) of Wageningen University & Research.

: Written informed consent was received by email correspondence from each participant. Additional verbal informed consent was obtained prior to the recording of the interview. Data protection measures were put into place, compliant with Wageningen University & Research policy.

: Each participant has verbally consented to the submission of the article to the journal.