Assessing determinants of organic food consumption using data from the German National Nutrition Survey II

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-70

  Padilla Bravo, Carlos ^a   Cordts, Anette ^a   Schulze, Birgit ^b   Spiller, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Germany; Organic food; Partial least squares; Purchasing motives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867623361     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2012.08.010     Document Type: Article

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