Organic food consumers: What do we really know about them?

British Food Journal

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1157-1183

  Dimitri, Carolyn ^a   Dettmann, Rachael L ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Demographic characteristics; Likelihood of buying organic food; Organic consumers; Organic foods; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864131008     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00070701211252101     Document Type: Article

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