Confiance dans les associations de défense de l'environnement et opposition aux OGM en Europe

Samira Chaklatti () and Damien Rousselière
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Samira Chaklatti: GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée = Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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Abstract: The emergence of genetically modified plants, in Europe, led to important debates and particularly about the consumption of genetically modified foods. In this context, voluntary organizations seemed to be an important actor in the diffusion of information on the subject, influencing the individual behaviours of the consumers. With data from the Eurobarometer 58.0, multivariate probit was used to specify the importance of trust in environmental associations and voluntary organizations on the acceptance of (and the resistance to) genetically modified foods on behalf of the "ordinary citizens". Finally, we discuss the principal stylized facts thus characterized. Our approach confirms the key results from the previous researches in consumer theory : personal values and adding consideration of social networks are important determinants of resistance (or acceptance) to GMO.

Keywords: Genetically Modified Plants; consumer; environmental association; trust; confiance; Organisme Génétiquement Modifié; comportement du consommateur; opinion publique; biotechnologie; association; protection de l'environnement; information du consommateur; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2007, 78 (1), pp.21-56

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Journal Article: CONFIANCE DANS LES ASSOCIATIONS DE DEFENSE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET OPPOSITION AUX OGM EN EUROPE (2007)
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