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The influence of Agro-terrorism on consumers' preference for locally grown products: a case-study from New Jersey

Applied Economics Letters 01/2008; 15(13):991-995. pp.991-995
Source: RePEc

ABSTRACT 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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Keywords

304 New Jersey consumers
 
article presents
 
consumer behaviour
 
econometric results
 
economics literature
 
hypotheses
 
terrorism fears
 

Ramu Govindasamy