creators_name: Ghorbani, Mohammad
creators_name: Mahmoudi, Hossein
creators_name: Liaghati, Houman
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2007-03-08
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:34:46
metadata_visibility: show
title: Consumers’ Demands and Preferences for Organic Foods: A Survey Study in Mashhad, Iran
ispublished: pub
subjects: 7consumer
full_text_status: public
keywords: Organic foods, Consumers, Demand, Awareness, Preference
abstract: Agriculture has always been an important sector of the Iranian economy. For this reason, the investigation of consumers' demands and priorities in relation to organic products is our concern since no study has been conducted in this area in Iran. This paper aims to investigate consumers' knowledge concerning organic foodstuffs and the factors influencing consumption of organic product in the families of Mashhad so that some recommendations may finally be presented. In fact, while organic farming has been promoted as an environmentally-friendly approach and has been developed during the last few years in most developed countries, there is little emphasis placed on this in developing countries such as Iran. In order to identify consumer demand for organic foods, 180 respondents were interviewed by means of a questionnaire.
date: 2007
date_type: published
refereed: never
citation: Ghorbani, Mohammad; Mahmoudi, Hossein and Liaghati, Houman (2007) Consumers’ Demands and Preferences for Organic Foods: A Survey Study in Mashhad, Iran. 3rd QLIF Congress: Improving Sustainability in Organic and Low Input Food Production Systems, University of Hohenheim, Germany, March 20-23, 2007.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/9831/1/ghorbani-etal-2007-consumers_preferences_iran.pdf