Swedish farmers attitudes, expectations and fears in relation to growing genetically modified crops

Environmental Biosafety Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 153-162

  Lehrman, Anna ^a   Johnson, Katy ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advantage; Attitude; Drawback; Farmers; GM crop; Insect resistance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROP; ECONOMICS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN;

HEXAPODA; IXODIDA;

EID: 52749095337     PISSN: 16357922     EISSN: 16357930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/ebr:2008012     Document Type: Article

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