Consumer perceptions and attitudes of organic food products in eastern China

British Food Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1105-1121

  Xie, Biao ^a   Wang, Liyuan ^b   Yang, Hao ^a   Wang, Yanhua ^a   Zhang, Mingli ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attitudes; China; Consumers; Organic food; Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939225837     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-09-2013-0255     Document Type: Article

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