Farmers' Preferences for Production Practices: A Choice Experiment Study in the Rhone River Delta

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 112-130

  Jaeck, Mélanie ^a   Lifran, Robert ^b  

^a MONTPELLIER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b Lameta and University of Montpellier 1   (France)

Author keywords

Agricultural technological choice; Choice experiments; Farmers' preferences; Latent class model; Random parameter model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; CROPPING PRACTICE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SMALLHOLDER; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

BOUCHES DU RHONE; CAMARGUE; FRANCE; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; RHONE DELTA;

EID: 84892983084     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: 14779552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12018     Document Type: Article

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