Diversification of the marketing chains among organic producers

Alessandro Corsi, Patrizia Borsotto, Ilaria Borri and Steinar Strøm ()

No 51422, 2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: Diversification of consumers’ demand and environmental concerns are at the origin of a trend towards short marketing chains and towards direct links between consumers and farmers in developed countries. This paper explores farmers’ motivations for choosing these types of marketing chains and/or the “traditional” ones. To this purpose, a theoretical model of marketing chain choice is developed, and a multivariate probit model of organic farmers’ choice of the marketing chain is estimated from a unique data set of organic farms in an Italian region.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Farm Management; Marketing; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.51422

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