Food product attributes guiding purchasing choice of maize meal by low-income South African consumers

Development Southern Africa

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-331

  Duvenage, Sara S ^a,b   Schönfeldt, Hettie C ^b   Kruger, Rozanne ^b  

^a VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Food product attributes; Food trends; Low income consumers; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SELECTION; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MAIZE; URBANIZATION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77956688243     PISSN: 0376835X     EISSN: 14703637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2010.498940     Document Type: Article

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