Local and regional food systems
Local Motivations, Regional Implications: Scaling from Local to Regional Food Systems in Northeastern North Carolina
... foster regional food system planning and funding will confront the challenges discussed above: regional food value chains are poorly under- stood and variable in scale, while regional ...
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Between Global and Local: Exploring Regional Food Systems from the Perspectives of Four Communities in the U.S. Northeast
... of food labeling demands significant consumer education and motivation to change purchasing patterns, as Grunert et ...of regional supply chains, with clear communication about the benefits of ...
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The Feasibility of Regional Food Systems in Metropolitan Areas: An Investigation of Philadelphia's Foodshed
... of food produced in that state than most other urban ...the local food system in the Philadelphia ...the local food system potential in the Willamette Valley region in Oregon captures ...
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Assessing food security and local food systems for healthy, livable and sustainable communities in north alabama
... of food directly to consumers, and 71 farms in Madison County sold $283,000 of food directly to consumers (Meter, ...existing local/ regional food systems as an economic ...with ...
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Vol 8 No B (2018): Supplement 2: Local Government in Food Systems Work
... 2015), local governments can and should assume an active role. In their local government capacity- building work, Clark et ...by food system inequalities is critical to the development of policies ...
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Bridging Gaps: A Framework for Developing Regional Food Systems
... to regional food sys- ...focus regional food systems ...within local food literature, which are typically defined as a common set of values promoting trust and ...
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Municipal Policy Enabling Regional Food Systems in British Columbia, Canada
... foundational regional food system element was addressed in 74% of rural, but only 45% of urban ...rural food producing areas. If urban munici- palities wish to support regional food ...
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Farm to Childcare: An Analysis of Social and Economic Values in Local Food Systems
... approached local food procurement similarly to CCCs––that is, as a singular but em- bedded component of their overall food procure- ment ...distributors, local food was a strategy for ...
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A Regional Economics–Based Research Agenda for Local Food Systems
... Defining the System: LFSs have been generally found to have a limited economic impact (Gale, 1997; Otto & Varner, 2005). Hughes et al. (2008), for example, estimated that farmers’ markets in West Virginia offered a ...
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Targeted Systems Change Behavior: Building a Local Food Economy in North Carolina.
... towards food systems ...of regional initiatives of food systems governance in the United States at the local level (Candel, 2014; Clancy, 2014; Delaney et ...of food ...
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Farm to Child Care: An Analysis of Social and Economic Values in Local Food Systems
... of local food in 40,000 school districts in all 50 states (National Farm to School Network, ...for regional fresh produce growers and, to some extent, producers of legumes, animal products and ...
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Food Policy Councils and Local Governments: Creating Effective Collaboration for Food Systems Change
... between local governments and food policy: “Food is not seen to be an issue for munici- palities” ...in local food, movements for community food security and food justice, ...
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Economic Impacts of Local Food Systems: Future Research Priorities
... of local food economic impact assessments have been conducted in regions throughout the United ...of local food marketing channels, like farmers’ markets or farm-to-school programs; farm-level ...
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Leveraging the Local: Cooperative Food Systems and the Local Organic Food Co-ops Network in Ontario, Canada
... meet local needs, in order to garner material ...Healthy Food and Farming, and the Ontario Co-operative Asso- ciation) help the LOFC Network with advocacy and engage in reciprocal and mutually beneficial ...
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IN THIS ISSUE: Reflexive and Inclusive: Reimagining Local Government Engagement in Food Systems
... in food systems in the United States and Canada have been invigor- ated in the last decade (Raja, Born, & Kozlowski Russell, 2008; Raja & Whittaker, ...the food system that have been thor- ...
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Local and regional variations in conditions for agricultural and food security in Tanzania
... Notable achievements have been realized in pursuit of the vision of the ASDS, which was to have a modernized agricultural sector by year 2025. the achievement include improvement in crop and livestock production and ...
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Local and regional variations in conditions for agriculture and food security in Tanzania
... receipt systems, WRS, denotes a kind of trade by which commodities are stored in a Licensed Warehouse(s), the owner of the commodity receives Warehouse Receipts which certifying the title of deposited commodities ...
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San Jose Food Works Study: Demonstrating the Economics of Local Food Systems Toolkit Methodology
... includes food and beverage stores, including supermarkets, convenience stores, meat and seafood markets, fruit and vegetable markets, baked goods stores, other specialty stores, and liquor ...National, ...
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Understanding regional agri-food systems and their supply chains: a socio-technological systems approach
... alternative food chains alludes tantalisingly to a series of benefits that can be derived from alternative food chains over their more conventional ...within regional, national and global ...
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Demystifying the Local: Considerations for Higher Education Engagement with Community Food Systems
... place food, health, education, and well- ness at the center of economic development strate- gies (Williams, 2005, ...to local food producers and distributors in low-income ...Community food ...
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