Consumer perceptions of place-based foods, food chain profit distribution and family farms

October 2005

Thomas E. DeCarlo, ISU College of Business, Veronica Jean Franck, Drake University College of Law, and Rich Pirog, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Consumers who participated in this Internet survey would like to see farmers receive a higher share of the profits for retail food products. See related grant project 2004-MSP05.

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