A latent class approach to investigating demand for genetically modified banana in Uganda

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 547-560

  Kikulwe, Enoch M ^a   Birol, Ekin ^b   Wesseler, Justus ^c   Falck Zepeda, José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Consumers; D12; Genetically modified bananas; Latent class model; O33; Preference heterogeneity; Q16; Q18; Uganda

Indexed keywords

CLASS; COMMERCIALIZATION; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; DATA SET; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOOD PRODUCTION; FRUIT; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

UGANDA;

EID: 80051565833     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2010.00529.x     Document Type: Article

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