Certification of socially responsible behavior: Eco-labels and fair-trade coffee

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Mason, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Coffee markets; Eco labeling; Testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149184045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1270     Document Type: Article

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