Organic agriculture and the conventionalization hypothesis: A case study from West Germany

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-106

  Best, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Conventionalization; Environmental concern; Organic agriculture; Organic farming; Organic movement; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749053567     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-007-9073-1     Document Type: Article

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