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Splitting consumer's willingness to pay premium price for organic products over main purchase motivations

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  • Cicia, Gianni
  • Del Giudice, Teresa
  • Ramunno, Ilaria
  • Tagliafierro, Carolina

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Recently, Italian agriculture has been widely characterised by the increasing number of farms and land converting to organic farming. In the slow process of shifting from a "niche" to a broader consumption in the organic products market deep differences between conventional and organic production, distribution and consumption became evident. In such a context, the consumer's behaviour about organic products analysis transpires to be complex as it involves either social - economic and psychographic characteristics. In order to address this issue a research has been carried out in two steps: in the first one, a qualitative analysis step, 45 consumer s of organic products were interviewed by phone using laddering techniques; then, in the second quantitative step, data from a 203 consumer s sample, representative of a region of South of Italy, was analysed by means of a multinomial logit. The research main innovative aspect resides in the two- step approach (qualitative - quantitative analysis), that enabled researchers to identify and quantify the environmental and hygienic component importance in consumer preferences on organic products.

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  • Cicia, Gianni & Del Giudice, Teresa & Ramunno, Ilaria & Tagliafierro, Carolina, 2006. "Splitting consumer's willingness to pay premium price for organic products over main purchase motivations," 98th Seminar, June 29-July 2, 2006, Chania, Crete, Greece 10057, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:eaae98:10057
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.10057
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