Investigating consumer attitudes toward food produced via three production systems: Conventional, sustainable and organic

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 55-58

  Thomas, Terrence ^a   Gunden, Cihat ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Consumer attitude; Consumer segmentation; Food production systems; Multidimensional scaling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; HUMAN; ORGANIC FOOD; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE; UNITED STATES; WELLBEING;

EID: 84862238786     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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