A look from the inside: perspectives on the expansion of food assistance programs at Michigan farmers markets

Mino, Rebecca; Chung, Kimberly; Montri, Dru N.

doi:10.1007/s10460-018-9877-1

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“…Not all markets, however, experienced these burdens to the same degree, as markets with fewer staff members and less overall resources struggled more acutely with the surge in EBT transactions. The authors argued this finding suggests that a market's organizational capacity (i.e., its access to adequate staffing, financial resources, and professional partnerships) is a highly salient factor in whether managers are successful in implementing and administering SNAP (Mino et al, 2018). While this finding had been previously identified in outcome-oriented evaluation efforts, this conclusion reflected the self-efficacy and agency perceptions of managers and other market personnel.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…(p. 128) This recommendation echoes calls from other researchers for the need to systematically address the barriers and facilitating factors that affect the motivations of market managers, as well as the likelihood (i.e., the degree of intention) that they will adopt or effectively sustain a SBIP at their market (Gusto et al, 2020;Hecht et al, 2019). When they have been the subjects of study, market managers are asked to respond to highly contextual barriers to their work, or some broad feelings about a behavior or situation (Hasin & Smith, 2018;Mino et al, 2018). We demonstrate that while these inquiries are valuable exploratory contributions to the literature, they are limited in their generalizability, given that they occur as casestudies and are not grounded within a systematic theoretical framework.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…From logistic regression results, the authors concluded that managers who established partnerships with external organizations and actively maintained their market's presence on social media were more likely to adopt EBT technology (Hasin & Smith, 2018). Mino, Chung, and Montri (2018) used an ethnographic approach to explore the day-to-day operational experiences of market managers and other market staff administering food assistance programs at select markets in Michigan. The authors demonstrated that all market staff experienced administrative burdens (e.g., engaging in tasks such as SNAP-specific sales tracking) in maintaining SNAP EBT access that affected the time they could dedicate to normal market functioning.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Toward a framework for assessing managerial intentions: A review of support for market managers’ engagement with nutrition incentive programs

Gusto

Diaz

2020

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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The last several years have seen a rapid expansion in the number of nutrition incentive programs implemented at farmers markets. While there has been increased attention paid to these efforts in terms of influencing consumer health indicators, there has been less focus on the farmers market managers responsible for implementing and administering the programs. To date, most studies that have addressed manager perspectives have been qualitative case-studies where findings may have limited generalizability to other market contexts. In this integrative review of literature, we examine the current state of both scholarly and practitioner literature regarding market manager perspectives on nutrition incentive programming. Given the identification of critical gaps and salient factors in efforts to promote nutrition incentive programming at markets, we call for the advancement of a framework that may be shared between organizations. This framework will capture essential data that inform market managers’ behavioral intention towards the nutrition incentive programs they currently administer. We propose that the development of a comprehensive survey tool designed to capture managerial intentions may ultimately prompt multistate, cross-organizational collaboration on improving nutritional program outcomes at farmers markets.Literature Review

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Section: Academic Reviewmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Making Motivations Visible: Toward a Systematic Behavioral Fmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Academic Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Toward a framework for assessing managerial intentions: A review of support for market managers’ engagement with nutrition incentive programs

Gusto

Diaz

2020

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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“…Market managers influence each other in this regard (Quintana & Morales, 2015). One area of interest is the success of farmers markets as an accessible source of fresh and healthy food for underserved communities, particularly those where a high density of supplemental SNAP recipients reside (Mino, Chung, & Montri, 2018;Roubal, Morales, Timberlake & Martinez-Donate 2016). This multivariate data analysis approach can be useful, particularly if data on SNAP utilization is collected weekly by farmers market managers.…”

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confidence: 99%

Vendor Variety and Market Sales: A Case Study of the Williamsburg Farmers Market

Archambault

Trivette

Warsaw

et al. 2020

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Although sales at farmers markets have been on the rise for a few decades, a regular challenge faced by market managers is how to ensure that their vendors are best positioned to maximize what they can capture in market sales. Farmers markets have varying degrees of data collection and data analysis. This study aims to demonstrate the value of understanding data, so that market managers can take informed, effective steps to increase sales for their vendors. This is accomplished using 13 years of weekly sales data from the Williamsburg Farmers Market (WFM). The dataset categorized sales by produce, specialty crops, animal products, value-a *

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“…These spaces are essential for the implementation of public policies that aim to promote access to and consumption of fruits and vegetables so that the population may develop healthier eating habits [8,9]. A series of U.S.-funded state public health actions and food assistance programs related to farmers' markets in the United States have been documented in recent years, focusing on the cultural barriers to food access among marginalized groups [10], the challenges associated with implementing food assistance programs in farmers' markets [11], and food safety issues [12][13][14].…”

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Farmers’ Market Actors, Dynamics, and Attributes: A Bibliometric Study

Figueroa-Rodríguez,

Álvarez-Ávila,

Hernández Castillo

et al. 2019

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Farmers’ markets aim to bring producers and consumers together under direct marketing schemes, also known as alternative food networks, for local and sustainable production and consumption of food. A number of studies concerning this subject have been published, however, as yet no updated reviews exist that might allow us to understand the trends in research on farmers’ markets. The objective of this study was to examine the farmers’ market literature using bibliometric tools. A total of 438 peer-reviewed publications, indexed in the abstract and citation meta-database Scopus (Elsevier®), for the period of 1979 to September 24, 2018, were considered. In the second phase, publications in the area of medicine were excluded, resulting in 295 publications being analyzed for the same period. The results showed that these publications focused on three main areas: markets, health programs, and food safety. Upon exclusion of the medical publications, the remaining works focused on farmers’ market actors, dynamics, and attributes: vendors (producers and others), consumers, the community, and supporting actors and institutions (government, NGOs, individuals). Therefore, it is concluded that there is no single type of farmers’ market, nor of farmers’ market vendors or consumers. This makes the reproduction of such spaces difficult, especially when the goals are to benefit local production systems or the nutrition of the local community.

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A look from the inside: perspectives on the expansion of food assistance programs at Michigan farmers markets

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

Toward a framework for assessing managerial intentions: A review of support for market managers’ engagement with nutrition incentive programs

Toward a framework for assessing managerial intentions: A review of support for market managers’ engagement with nutrition incentive programs

Vendor Variety and Market Sales: A Case Study of the Williamsburg Farmers Market

Farmers’ Market Actors, Dynamics, and Attributes: A Bibliometric Study

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