Organic Meat Marketing

Organic Meat Production and Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 67-85

  Van Loo, Ellen J ^a   Caputo, Vincenzina ^b   Nayga, Rodolfo M ^c   Canavari, Maurizio ^b   Ricke, Steven C ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer perceptions; Local; Marketing; Natural; Organic meat; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870985324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118229088.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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