Purpose – The aim of this research is to empirically investigate how different types of trust relate to consumer perceptions of food safety. Design/methodology/approach – After a review of trust literature this study classifies trust into three distinct types: supplier‐level specific...

The purpose of optimal water and nutrient management is to maximize water and fertilizer use efficiency and crop production, and to minimize groundwater pollution. In this study, field experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of soil salinity and N fertigation strategy on plant...

In arid and semi-arid regions, salinity is a serious and chronic problem for agriculture. A 3-year field experiment in the arid environment of Xinjiang, northwest China, was conducted to study the salinity change in soil resulting from deficit irrigation of cotton with non-saline, moderate...