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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"local food system"”.
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Building a Better Local Food System: A Case Study of the Western Montana Growers Cooperative
Local food systems aiming to re-create direct links between producers and consumers are emerging in the United States and elsewhere in response to the social, economic, and environmental consequences of the globalizing food market. Despite growing consumer demand for locally produced food, …
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Building a Better Local Food System: A Case Study of the Western Montana Growers Cooperative
Local food systems aiming to re-create direct links between producers and consumers are emerging in the United States and elsewhere in response to the social, economic, and environmental consequences of the globalizing food market. Despite growing consumer demand for locally produced food, …
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Fostering food security through local culture: Insights from Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan
Food insecurity has become a wicked problem and a global challenge, raising the concerns of farmers, consumers, and world leaders. Against the common opinion that food insecurity exists only in developing nations, research has shown that food insecurity is also experienced in developed countries …
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Exploring Cultural Identity and Engagement among Hispanic Youth: Implications for Food Justice and Food System Development
… lifestyles and access to quality, nutritious food for marginalized groups, specifically Hispanics, is becoming an increasing topic of conversation. However, issues of access, availability, lack of initiatives in many areas which allow these individuals to become involved in the local food …
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Case Study on a Container Gardening Program: Can Home Food Production Impact Community Food Security in Rural Appalachia?
… been a subsistence or supplemental form of food procurement worldwide and promoted as a food security project in times of economic hardship. Qualitative research was used to investigate container gardening's potential to provide the impetus for further agricultural activities within …
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A Reflective Practitioner Approach to Food System Planning in Calgary, Alberta
… municipalities across Canada are implementing food system assessments and action plans to better understand and address issues related to urban food systems. In 2012, the City of Calgary released “Calgary EATS!: A Food System Assessment and Action Plan” (CE), a comprehensive report and action …
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Maize and the Call of Place: Practicing Reciprocity through Local Crop Adaptation
… more sustainable ecological outcomes in food systems globally, locally appropriate practices are developing through the work of practitioners and communities in particular places. This dissertation focuses on local crop adaptation for low-input farming systems via open-pollinated plant …
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Influence of Leadership on the Success and Failure of Farmers Markets in Virginia
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 …
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Building Marketing Capacity of Local Food Systems: Case Studies from the Shenandoah Valley
… and Chesapeake Bay watershed. Having sufficient food system infrastructure available and accessible to these farm operations is essential to help them add value to their farm products; diversify their operations and differentiate their farm and food products in an increasingly competitive and …
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Growing Support: Localism, Nonprofits, and Food Access in Post-Katrina New Orleans
<p>Problems with food insecurity, such as a lack of access to healthy and affordable food in low-income neighborhoods, has been an ongoing challenge in New Orleans. The damages inflicted by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent citywide flooding on the local food system reduced the numerical count of …
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One thousand friends of food : strategies for the implementation of local food policy in New York City
… into how New York City can incorporate local food system planning into their existing sustainability program by capitalizing on recent energy and grassroots initiatives. I argue for the importance of local and regionally produced food as a part of food system sustainability, and propose …
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Growing pains: the local food movement in northern Colorado
Global food and agribusiness corporations exhibit significant control over food production and consumption. Around the world, people contest this corporate food regime through efforts like local food movements. Critics often undermine the power of localism movements and claim that local food is a …
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Growing Toward the Sun: How the Good-Food Movement Catapulted a Small New York City Third-Sector Organization into Rapid Growth, Success, and Many Challenges
… organization focused on what it calls "food justice." This study concentrates on how this organization, that I call Food Rights, has built a broad multi-sector network made up of a varied set of constituents and collaborators aiming to develop and promote an alternative food system for …
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Keeping mom and pop fresh : strategies for getting produce into corner stores
… are a promising strategy to address issues of food access. To be successful, conversion programs must address the challenges of sourcing and selling produce. As a perishable product, produce requires store owner to possess significant skills and infrastructure for proper management. …
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Linking inclusive green growth and the informal economy : relationship between small-scale farming and informal vending in South Africa
… of symbiotic linkages in this overlooked local food system that can increase employment opportunities and lower growth barriers for emergent farmers, who are important actors in developing a green economy based on sustainable agriculture practices. Lastly, findings are translated into …
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Evaluation of motivations that influence consumer attitudes and behavior when purchasing local foods
In an increasingly complex and differentiated food system, the local food movement appears to be gaining momentum. This increased attention to the sustainable food movement highlights both the public and private benefits to eating local food, propelling the "local food" movement into the public eye …
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A Research Design for Assessing the Possibilities of Localized Food Production
Local food production movements have claimed a central role in proposals to mitigate some of the negative effects of economic globalization. Although not meant to be a panacea for the ills of the neoliberal order, local food production is advocated as a sustainable solution to a portion of the …
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Architecture for a Regional Food System: A Food Hub for the Beacon Hill Neighborhood
… and mutually beneficial relationship between food and cities. However due to industrialization of our contemporary food network the tangible connections to food that were once present in the urban landscape have been lost. Supermarkets have replaced the public market, the traditional site for …
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Celebrations everywhere: How social movements enact emotional culture to advance an ideology of local production
… emotional culture to advance an ideology of local production in the context of local food initiatives in a small city in Canada. In Localtown, a local food movement conducts initiatives to rebuild the city’s local food system after decades of agricultural consolidation had reduced the …
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The eastern crescent and beyond : the current state of and potential for local food production and multifunctional agriculture in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown peri-urban fringe
… is characterized by prime agricultural soils and local production of fruits and vegetables (Optiz et al. 2015; Brinkley, 2012). When compared to other states, Texas’ peri-urban agricultural lands were found to be the most susceptible to land use conversion. However, a policy response to combat …
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