Characteristics and Motivations of Consumers of Direct Purchasing Channels and the Perceived Barriers to Alternative Food Purchase: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Ecuadorian Andes
, Sara Latorre 2, Myriam Paredes 2, María Fernanda Hurtado 2, Fabián Muñoz 3, Ana Deaconu 1, Donald C. Cole 4,5 and Malek Batal 1,6,*Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The work is interesting, the experimental part well structured,Iadvise the authors to widen the introduction, in particular by including the description of the social economic substratum of the cities involved in the survey. After minus revisions the paper is suitable for the publication.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Page numbering, please correct
(there is not a continuous numbering, pages start from 1 to 4 and then again from 1 to 14)
Abstract, line 28-29 (one would expect DMC consumers to use more frequently processed foods in contrast with AC consumers, which follow organic food)
Introduction
Please, provide a small paragraph explaining the main differences between AC and DMC consumers, one need to read the Table 1 in order to understand
Please, give definition about agroecology and organic farming with small sentences
Line 134, (…. to standard protocols)
What are these protocols, provide references
Table 1 (…… certified according to Equadorian and international regulations)
Please provide relevant references
Is there a certification process involved in order to characterize organic food production or farmers just follow directions
Please, provide a short paragraph in introduction to explain how organic production is implemented by farmers
Line 241, please provide manufacturer and version number for Nvivo qualitative data analysis software
Overall, how would authors communicate the results of this work in order to help public health policies to the general population?
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