TY - JOUR
T1 - The influence of Agro-terrorism on consumers' preference for locally grown products
T2 - A case-study from New Jersey
AU - Govindasamy, Ramu
AU - Turvey, Calum G.
AU - Puduri, Venkata
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - The economics of agro-terrorism has not been fully developed within the economics literature, yet with increasing concerns about agro-terrorism it is important to understand how consumers will generally respond. This article presents an overview of food safety issues, and develops an economic model that can be used to illustrate and establish hypotheses regarding consumer behaviour and agro-terrorism. We then present sample and econometric results from a survey of 304 New Jersey consumers and explain the characteristics of the 33% that confirmed that they have increased purchases of locally grown produce due to terrorism fears.
AB - The economics of agro-terrorism has not been fully developed within the economics literature, yet with increasing concerns about agro-terrorism it is important to understand how consumers will generally respond. This article presents an overview of food safety issues, and develops an economic model that can be used to illustrate and establish hypotheses regarding consumer behaviour and agro-terrorism. We then present sample and econometric results from a survey of 304 New Jersey consumers and explain the characteristics of the 33% that confirmed that they have increased purchases of locally grown produce due to terrorism fears.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13504850600972337
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/13504850600972337
M3 - Article
VL - 15
SP - 991
EP - 995
JO - Applied Economics Letters
JF - Applied Economics Letters
SN - 1350-4851
IS - 13
ER -