Adoption and continued participation in a public Good Agricultural Practices program: The case of rice farmers in the Central Plains of Thailand

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 96, Issue , 2015, Pages 242-253

  Srisopaporn, Saengabha ^a   Jourdain, Damien ^a,b   Perret, Sylvain R ^a,b   Shivakoti, Ganesh ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Adoption; ASEAN; Certification; Food safety; Good agricultural practices; Public standard; Rice

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; FOOD SAFETY; LANDFORMS;

ADOPTION; ASEAN; CERTIFICATION; GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; RICE;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ASEAN; CERTIFICATION; FOOD SAFETY; LANDOWNERSHIP; RICE; STANDARD (REGULATION);

THAILAND;

EID: 84941271895     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.03.016     Document Type: Article

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