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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Farmers market"”.

  1. Farmers Market Education with Supplemental Voucher Improves Farmers Market Awareness in Elementary Children

    Papendick, Ali2018

    … of this pilot intervention study was to provide farmers market (FM) education coupled with FM voucher to assess FM awareness, attendance, and voucher use. <strong>Methods:</strong>Kindergarten through 3<sup>rd</sup>grade students attending a summer school program participated in this three-week …

    central-wash Repository record

  2. "Believe Me!" : An Ethnography of Persuasive Interaction at the Farmers' Market

    Garner, BenjaminUniversity of Kansas2014

    Farmers' markets have been growing in recent decades and one contributing factor is that customers have more interpersonal contact with sellers at farmers' markets than they do at grocery stores. Increased interpersonal interaction means customers gain more personalized service, the ability to …

    ku Repository record

  3. Exploring the Online Farmers’ Market: Neoliberal Venture Capital Meets the Alternative Food Movement

    Muirow, Arianna Rachel2018

    … Rather than situating these new “online farmers’ markets” within a binary alternative-industrial framing, this work explores the ways in which these new market models bridge alternative-industrial food systems as a new hybrid entity, the tech-AFN. I find three interconnected themes at …

    washington Repository record

  4. Tensions in (Agri)Culture: The Negotiation of Environmental Dialectics at an Urban Farmers Market'

    Boys, Jason

    … to create and sustain the culture of an urban farmers market. Using theories of cultural communication as both theoretical grounding and methodology, the author was able to identify and interpret the functions of tensions previously presented by scholars in the field of communication. The …

    unm Repository record

  5. Assessment of Farmers Market Practices and Characteristics to Inform the Development of Tailored Educational Materials

    Duong, Minh DaoVirginia Tech2021

    Farmers markets (FM) have become increasingly popular almost tripling over the past two decades due to the rising interest in local and/or organic foods. Within this same time period, notable farmers market foodborne illness outbreaks; such as E. coli O157:H7 and strawberries and Salmonella and …

    vt Repository record

  6. EFFECTS OF THE SANTA FE FARMERS' MARKET CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM ON STUDENTS' WILLINGNESS TO TRY FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

    McCann, Laura

    … vegetables after participating in the Santa Fe Farmers' Market Children's Nutrition Program (intervention) on a class field trip. The WillTry survey was administered to 139 kindergarten, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students five days before and two days after they participated in the intervention. …

    unm Repository record

  7. Increasing Farmers Market Access among Low-Income Shoppers in Washington State: Understanding the Role of Peer-to-Peer Programs

    Hamilton, Danielle2017

    … To describe a sample of peer-to-peer (P2P) farmers market programs, explore perceptions about the impacts of P2P programs, and to evaluate the factors that contribute to the success of this initiative. The study also examines how these findings relate to key indicators in the SNAP-Ed …

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  8. Farmers Market Access by Snap-eligible Mothers of Young Children: Barriers and Impact on Nutrition Education Programming for Cooperative Extension

    Misyak, Sarah A.Virginia Tech2014

    Providing improved access to farmers markets and other local food outlets for low-income audiences is an increasingly popular nutrition intervention strategy to promote consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables and address obesity. The USDA encouraged more farm to fork initiatives and efforts to …

    vt Repository record

  9. Identification of food safety risks at Virginia farmers' markets and development of a food safety plan to help farmers market managers

    Pollard, Stephanie KayVirginia Tech2015

    The growing popularity of farmers' markets coupled with a high percentage of produce-related foodborne outbreaks highlights the need for an emphasis on food safety within these markets to protect farmers, patrons and local economies. The number of farmers' markets registered in the United States …

    vt Repository record

  10. Don’t Count on Kiwis at a Kiwi Farmers’ Market: Communicating Intersections of Globalization and Local Food at Aotearoa New Zealand Farmers’ Markets

    Bartosh, Travis2023

    … this study seeks to understand how New Zealand farmers’ markets represent and engage with <em>global</em> and <em>local</em> issues in relation to food production, distribution, and consumption. Under this question, three sub-questions seek to understand the discourses present at the markets, …

    chapman Repository record

  11. Social ties and farmers’ market access in Ghana: Structural Characteristics, Sociocultural Motives and Consequences of Social Capital-Facilitated Exchanges in a Subsistence Marketplace

    Bannor, Bernard FrimpongDe Montfort University2024

    This study explores how social ties influence farmers’ market access in the subsistence marketplace within the Sub-Saharan African regions. With the compelling evidence that smallholder farmers operate under dismal market access and the ongoing global action plan from the United Nations Decade of …

    de-montfort Repository record

  12. Farmers' markets as contested sites: From neoliberal redevelopment governance to lifestyle activism

    DeMuynck, ErinUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Farmers’ markets have grown dramatically in number and popularity in recent decades. They have become symbols of a re-emerging ethical and community-centered civic life and are frequently understood to be democratic, public spaces and to serve as counterpoints to an environmentally and socially …

    uiuc Repository record

  13. Farmers' Markets in Kentucky: A Geospatial, Statistical, and Cultural Analysis

    Schmitz, Elizabeth Ann

    … factors are driving the exponential growth of farmers’ markets in Kentucky, geospatial and statistical analysis of a database of 121 farmers’ markets was conducted. A statewide survey of market leaders and a case study of a single farmers’ market both identified reasons for growing support of …

    wku-diss Repository record

  14. Beauty in everyday landscapes: film as a method of investigation of sensual perception, human action, movement and landscape performance in cities

    Soares Souza de Souza, Aline ReginaVirginia Tech2017

    … of beauty. It introduces the site of the farmers market as a place of discovery of beauty in everyday landscapes. There will also be a presentation of research in definitions of beauty and a literature review in everyday landscapes and urban agriculture. Part two explains the methodology …

    vt Repository record

  15. Quality Incentives and the Development of High-value Agrifood Markets: Ecuador's Cacao Marketing Chain

    Jano, Pilar AlejandraVirginia Tech2007

    … explores constraints to the development of markets for high quality cacao in Ecuador. It focuses on the role of market level constraints, particularly the transmission of quality incentives along the marketing chain and their effects on farmers' incentives to invest in quality production. …

    vt Repository record

  16. A Qualitative Exploration of the Influence of Leadership on the Success and Failure of Farmers Markets in Virginia

    Coartney, Jama S.Virginia Tech2021

    Farmers markets play an important role within the local food system and the short food supply chain (SFSC); they promote economic development by connecting vendors, people, and community. While the number of farmers markets has increased dramatically since 1994, many markets fail, and it is unclear …

    vt Repository record

  17. The Public Market System of New Orleans: Food Deserts, Food Security, and Food Politics

    Taylor, Nicole

    This study evaluates the public market system in New Orleans, Louisiana by focusing on the history of New Orleans public markets, the privatization of food, and the "greening" of the city with the creation of the Crescent City Farmers Market and other grass roots food activist efforts. Using …

    uno Repository record

  18. SCALE : exploring human-object interaction through force vector measurement

    Yoshida, TakatoshiMassachusetts Institute of Technology2019

    … including a retail store, a smart home and a farmers market. In this thesis, I have proposed a base system SCALE, and two additional advanced projects titled KI/OSK and DepthTouch, which build upon the SCALE project.

    mit Repository record

  19. APPLYING THE THEORY OF DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS TO UNDERSTAND ELECTRONIC BENEFIT TRANSFER TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AT MID-WEST FARMERS MARKETS

    Hasin, Afroza

    … to Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), vendors at farmers markets are unable to accept SNAP benefits due to lack of necessary technology adoption. The number of farmers markets has increased 39 percent since 2010 yet only 21 percent of the nation’s farmers markets are equipped to accept EBT (USDA …

    siu-theses Repository record

  20. Roaring Orchards

    Ionascu, Dan

    … the Taconic Parkway, there is on Sundays a small farmers' market. I stopped to get a carton of blueberries from the produce tent, and wandered to a table stacked with used books for sale. Most were illustrated biographies of baseball players and how-to books, but there were also a few dusty yellow …

    unlv Repository record

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