Vegetable safety; Eating out; Discrete choice; Organic farming; West Africa | African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium (AGRODEP)

Will they buy it? The potential for marketing organic vegetables in the food vending sector to strengthen vegetable safety: A choice experiment study in three West African cities

Authors

Lorenz Probst, Elysée Houedjofonon, Hayford Mensah Ayerakwa, Rainer Haas

Publisher

Food Policy

Publication date

Tue, 03/27/2012 - 21:00

Location

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.02.014

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Considering the hazardous use of synthetic pesticides in vegetable production in urban West Africa, this research investigated the marketing potential of organic vegetables in the food vending sector of Cotonou (Benin), Accra (Ghana) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).