Analysis of Latvia inhabitants’ confidence towards GMO
2017
Aleksejeva, I., University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia) | Sloka, B., University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia) | Kantane, I., University of Economics and Culture, Riga (Latvia) | Vilcina, A., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia)
The aim of the paper is to study Latvian inhabitants’ confidence in politicians and decision makers, competent supervisory and control authorities, mass media, enterprises responsible for GMO elaboration, scientists responsible for the risk assessment of GMO, organisations that protect consumer rights, food producers and traders and environmental activists and environmental protection organisations towards GMO. The study is based on the results of Latvian inhabitants’ survey performed in 2014 and 2015. Methods applied in the paper: analysis of scientific publications, analysis of the survey data. For survey data analysis - descriptive statistical analysis, cross tabulation, Mann-Whitney U test were applied. The obtained results show that Latvian inhabitants’ confidence in politicians and decision makers, competent supervisory and control authorities, mass media, enterprises responsible for GMO elaboration, scientists responsible for the risk assessment of GMO, organisations that protect consumer rights, food producers and traders and environmental activists and environmental protection organisations towards GMO was low. From all sources of information on GMO, most trustful source of all Latvia inhabitants was scientists responsible for the risk assessment of GMO and environmental activists and environmental protection organisations.
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