Retail outlets: Nurturing organic food consumers

Organic Agriculture

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 247-259

  Henryks, Joanna ^a   Pearson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Choice of retail outlet; Marketing; Organic food

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882659737     PISSN: 18794238     EISSN: 18794246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13165-011-0019-y     Document Type: Article

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