Local food systems
Farm to Childcare: An Analysis of Social and Economic Values in Local Food Systems
... in Local Food Systems The relationships that form the F2CC supply chain can be organized into a system of interrelated values using the economic sociology theoretical frameworks of embeddedness and ...
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Assessing the Promise and Realities of Local Food systems: Does Government Intervention Help?
... (e.g. food safety standards) (Stevenson et ...conventional food system in which the supply structure is unevenly distributed in terms of the size of farms producing the ...the local, state, and ...
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Local food systems: concepts, impacts, and issues
... fresh, local commodities includes inherent risks, such as exposure to bad weather, pest infestations, quality inconsistencies, food safety liability, and fl uctuating input ...the local level to meet ...
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Economic Impacts of Local Food Systems: Future Research Priorities
... Research on the economic impacts of local food systems is ongoing. Organized sessions have been developed exclusively on this topic in 2013 at multiple applied economics conferences, including the ...
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What Does Zoning Have to Do with Local Food Systems?
... 25,000 local jurisdictions in the US that have the power to adopt zoning laws, and their authority to regulate land is derived from the legis- latures and constitutions of 50 states, not from the federal ...
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IN THIS ISSUE: What Is a ‘Multiplier’ Anyway? Assessing the Economics of Local Food Systems Toolkit
... to local food system ...that local leaders and service providers in central Oregon are more supportive of developing local food systems after being informed of study find- ...
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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 ...and local ...
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A Regional Economics–Based Research Agenda for Local Food Systems
... a food system become sufficiently large so as to influence regional labor and capital markets, price-flexible regional models, such as computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, may be needed to properly account ...
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High Tunnels for Local Food Systems: Subsidies, Equity, and Profitability
... High tunnel growers in Virginia were surveyed to elicit details about their demographics, production practices, sales venues, revenue, and satisfaction with the NRCS high tunnel program. Our survey contained 13 questions ...
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Placing Local Food Systems: Farm Tours as Place-Based Sustainability Education
... Such experiences can be truly transformational for students. At the same time, contemporary trends in primary and secondary education that involve standards, test results, and teacher accountability make this arena an ...
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Farm to Child Care: An Analysis of Social and Economic Values in Local Food Systems
... purchase food from equitable supply chain partners could pull sustainable products from farmer through distributor to child care, in an institutionalized yet flexible ...quality food is accessible to all ...
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Local Food Systems and Sustainability of Agriculture and Rural Areas
... Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts states that ...
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Assessing food security and local food systems for healthy, livable and sustainable communities in north alabama
... the food resources available across the state. Places with high food insecurity risk were detailed in the study and compared to places where food is ...of food insecurity ...the Food ...
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Targeted Systems Change Behavior: Building a Local Food Economy in North Carolina.
... a local food procurement standard as an innovation among businesses/organizations in North ...and local food systems are interdisciplinary fields of study, this dissertation draws from ...
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Toward Alternative Food Systems Development: Exploring Limitations and Research Opportunities
... of food (Ilbery, Morris, Buller, Maye, & Kneafsey, 2005; Sage, ...shorter food supply chains are seen as underpinning the structure and value of alternative food networks (Renting, Marsden, & ...
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Building Resilience in Nonprofit Food Hubs
... nonprofit food hub vulnerabilities included a reliance on volunteers and poor income ...Many food hubs, although grateful for volunteer labor, admitted major drawbacks to relying on volunteers who can be ...
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Discussion cooperation in local organic food systems
... for local food systems to emerge is discussed and this is related to concrete ideas about ways of enhancing ...the local and organic food chains and systems of the cases around ...
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Local Motivations, Regional Implications: Scaling from Local to Regional Food Systems in Northeastern North Carolina
... to food system initiatives; however, as Clancy and Ruhf (2018) pointed out in this journal, it is often conflated with ...view food systems and not just for the economic benefits of creating ...
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... strengthen local and regional food systems, the expectations for their work are ...about food systems research, as well as tools and guidance about working across disciplinary lines, ...
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Demystifying the Local: Considerations for Higher Education Engagement with Community Food Systems
... context. Local universities and colleges in the city have always been intricately linked to the transformation of these contexts through their land and neighborhood development practices and local research ...
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