Market feasibility of faecal sludge and municipal solid waste-based compost as measured by farmers' willingness-to-pay for product attributes: Evidence from Kampala, Uganda

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Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Danso, George K ^a   Otoo, Miriam ^b   Ekere, William ^c   Ddungu, Stanley ^c   Madurangi, Ganesha ^b  

^a ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Compost; Faecal sludge; Informational attributes; Latent class models; Municipal solidwaste; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026199885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/resources6030031     Document Type: Article

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