Adoption of organic farming: Are there differences between early and late adoption?

Ecological Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1406-1414

  Läpple, Doris ^a,b   Rensburg, Tom Van ^b  

^a Rural Economy Research Centre Ireland   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Early and late adoption; Farmer attitudes; Multinomial logit analysis; Organic farming

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FARMERS ATTITUDE; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LOGIT ANALYSIS; ORGANIC FARMING;

EID: 79955096041     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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