Eliciting Consumer WTP for Food Characteristics in a Developing Context: Application of Four Valuation Methods in an African Market

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 123-142

  Alphonce, Roselyne ^a,b   Alfnes, Frode ^b  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Becker DeGroot Marschak mechanism; choice experiment; field experiments; food safety; organic; price lists; Tanzania; willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

FOOD MARKET; FOOD SAFETY; PRICE DYNAMICS; VEGETABLE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

TANZANIA;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84973484072     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: 14779552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12170     Document Type: Article

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