Canadian consumer's willingness-to-pay for pesticide free food products: An ordered probit analysist

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Cranfield, J A L ^a   Magnusson, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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