Using sensory experiments to determine consumers' willingness to pay for traditional apple varieties;Uso de experimentos sensoriales para determinar la disposiciòn del consumidor a pagar por variedades tradicionales de manzano

Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 351-362

  Dinis, I ^a   Simoes, O ^a   Moreira, J ^a  

^a Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agro biodiversity; Contingent valuation; Hedonic prices; Landraces; Malus Domestica; Panel data

Indexed keywords

MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 79959654392     PISSN: 1695971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5424/sjar/20110902-133-10     Document Type: Article

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