Farmers' preferences for crop variety traits: Lessons for on-farm conservation and technology adoption

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2394-2401

  Asrat, Sinafikeh ^a   Yesuf, Mahmud ^b   Carlsson, Fredrik ^c   Wale, Edilegnaw ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d Department of Agricultural Economics   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Crop biodiversity; Crop variety; Random parameter logit

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; GENETIC RESOURCE; HETEROGENEITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 77957011646     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.07.006     Document Type: Article

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