How can consumer trust in organic products be enhanced?

Ethical Futures: Bioscience and Food Horizons

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 271-276

  Schneider, F ^a   Stolze, M ^a   Kriege Steffen, A ^b   Lohscheidt, J ^b   Boland, H ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FIBL   (Switzerland)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer trust; Organic food; Qualitative and quantitative approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867040934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-673-1     Document Type: Chapter

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