and 17, 2010. The Rapid Market Assessment, also known as the dot survey, was carried out to assess the composition and … from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) Farmers Market and Direct Marketing Research Branch used the dot … survey approach to conduct consumer research at the farmers market. The dot survey technique is a “self-service” research …

questions related to local food that have not been sufficiently addressed before: what is the greatest distance food can travel … and still be accepted by consumers as local and is "local" equally important across food categories. Using survey data … from two states in the USA, this research found that consumers’ accepted food travel distance may be much shorter than what …

Internet survey data than the ordered probit model. …

method, we divide Inner Mongolia into 5 different types of project zone, namely multiple-purpose project zone of the western … Greater Khingan Mountains, irrigation project zone of Nenjiang and the western Liao River plain, the central dry farming … complementary irrigation project zone, Hetao Plain and Huanghe River irrigation project zone, and the western oasis irrigation …

lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and … production contracts depending on the availability of alternative marketing options. A propensity score matching method is used … to compare prices using contract data from a farm-level national survey. The results show that the absence of other …

illegal. One alternative worth considering is exporting fresh grapefruits to the EU. This marketing opportunity comes about as … the demand for the fruit in the EU could create a marketing opportunities for countries such as Jamaica. The paper … discusses the state of the Florida citrus industry with particular reference to grapefruits and the marketing prospects for …