Organic livestock production as viewed by Swedish farmers and organic initiators

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 255-268

  Lund, Vonne ^a   Hemlin, Sven ^b,d   Lockeretz, William ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d and Philosophy ^*

Author keywords

Conversion; Ethics; Organic farming; Organic livestock production; Organic values; Qualitative interviews

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0012768117     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019965907779     Document Type: Article

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