Predicted willingness of Irish farmers to adopt GM technology

AgBioForum

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 394-403

  Keelan, Conor ^a   Thorne, Fiona S ^a   Flanagan, Paul ^b   Newman, Carol ^c   Mullins, Ewen ^b  

^a Rural Economy Research Centre Ireland   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adoption and diffusion theory; GM technology; Ireland; Probit models; Technological innovations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954371740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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