Consumers’ evolving definition and expectations for local foods

Lang, Mark; Stanton, John L.; Qu, Yingdao

doi:10.1108/bfj-03-2014-0117

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“…These practices include utilizing low/no use of inputs, maintaining biodiversity, adopting traditional farming practices, reducing food miles, and increasing seasonal eating. The farmers' objective is to safeguard the environment (i.e., water, air, soil) by limiting the negative environmental impacts of food production, distribution, and consumption [20][21][22][23][24][25][26] Third, the CSA model emphasizes the social and community aspect of the consumer and producer relationship. The management implementation of this aspect may differ [1,5,25].…”

Section: Csa Farmers' Motivations and Expectationsmentioning

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“…Environmental benefits Reducing food miles [4,5,16,22,23,57,75,82,83] Increasing seasonal food eating in the community [22,24,76] Saving water quality [16,56] Saving air quality [19,82] Growing more varieties to safeguard environment [4,7,25] Protecting biodiversity [4,16,77,83] Making less/no use of chemicals [4,8,58] Saving soil quality [4,78] Farming with traditional method [4,16,25,26,81,84] Experiencing farm life Opportunity of working on the farm for consumers [4,24,29] Opportunity of growing their own food for consumers [4,22] Opportunity of staying in nature for consumers [19] Opportunity for consumers' children to improve knowledge on food origins [82] Emotional values Providing consumers' stress relief [4,11] Providing consumers' life enrichment [4,58] Providing consumers th...…”

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confidence: 99%

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Community Supported Agriculture Farmers’ Perceptions of Management Benefits and Drawbacks

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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a direct partnership between producer(s) and a group of consumers/members to share the risks and responsibilities of farming activities. CSA aims at producing and providing environmentally, socially, economically, and nutritionally sustainable food. Past research has focused on CSA members’ motivations. This research aims to gain a better understanding of CSA farmers’ perceived benefits and drawbacks in managing a CSA farm, and whether CSA management perception varies in different countries. The research collected data from 35 farmers that were based in the United States (US) and Hungary (HU). Data elaboration includes a one-way Anova test, Chi-square test, principal component analysis, and multiple multivariate linear regressions. The results support that US and HU farmers have similar positive perceptions of CSA farming management, especially in food quality, nutritional value products, environmental, and community benefits. The main differences concentrate on economic, financial, and management perceptions. CSA success as an alternative agro-food production and distribution system relies on the capability to involve CSA members. Therefore, CSA farmers’ management skills may evolve to ensure the performance of communication and community engaging practices. The main CSA concern is ensuring a fair income and living wage for the farmers and labor force. There is a need for better balancing non-monetary and monetary benefits for the farmers.

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Section: Csa Farmers' Motivations and Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Benefits (Benefits In)mentioning

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Community Supported Agriculture Farmers’ Perceptions of Management Benefits and Drawbacks

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“…In consequence, visitors tend to provide local products and food miles from years (Zanoli & Naspetti, 2002;Albisu et al, 2011), because taste and freshness have always been considered as relevant attributes of local products and food miles and also have been linked to healthy life. As Lang et al (2014, p. 1817 argue "local foods trend is more than just produce food miles to consumers" and evolves a redefinition of food quality because consumers look for a more personal connection and involvement with local owned business; food miles and typical products to the region, and prioritize small-scale producer.…”

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Food markets visitors: a typology proposal

Crespi‐Vallbona

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2016

British Food Journal

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Abstract:Purpose Focusing on food markets popularity among tourists, the purpose of this article is to differentiate clusters of tourists based on their behavior during their visit of these food halls. Design/methodology/approach Factor-cluster analysis is the segmentation method used to identify food markets groupings related to their motivations, while ANOVA was performed to determine differences between clusters when it comes to perceived authenticity, satisfaction and revisit intention. La Boqueria in Barcelona (Spain) is the paradigmatic food market used to conduct 196 survey respondents based on factor importance. Findings Two homogenous clusters were identified and labelled as Apathetic-market Visitors and Food-market Lovers. Practical implicationsSegmentation proposal provides insights to be taken into account for future Destination Management Organization's policies, related to promotional activities and destination branding development. They could create effective tailor-made promotional campaigns and adequate business strategies to further attract more food lovers markets, without removing apathetic-market visitors. Originality/value Fill the gap in the existing knowledge on the tourism interest of local markets in destinations and identify through factor-cluster analysis.

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“…Indeed, while these aspects could be pertained to local food, it may not necessarily be the case, since local food also may origin from e.g., large food industries with conventional non organic production. Although the concept "local food" is commonly used, research shows that there is no single definition of it, instead the meanings vary widely [60][61][62]. One common accepted definition is the one used by many British farmers' markets, which states "food produced, processed, traded, and sold within a defined geographic radius, often 30 miles" [63].…”

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Confusion and Misunderstanding—Interpretations and Definitions of Local Food

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Developing a more resilient food system based on sustainable food production and consumption is of major concern in creating food security. One issue in this complex field concerns the scale of the food system. Trends and tendencies show that the interest for local food has increased the last decade in Sweden, as well as in other parts of the world. Although the concept "local food" is commonly used, research shows that there is no single definition of it, instead definitions and meanings vary widely. This has led to a need by consumers of clearer information when buying "local food". Several main actors in the Swedish food sector have joined forces to meet this issue. This paper contributes to knowledge on definitions, interpretations, and practice on local food by presenting views and opinions among different actors in the food chain in a Swedish context, but also in the light of an international pilot study. Main findings concern how the meaning of "local food" related to production, processing, raw material, and distance differs among stakeholders in the food chain. A majority stated that the basic meaning of "local food" concerns both the production and consumption within a certain geographical area.

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Consumers’ evolving definition and expectations for local foods

Cited by 79 publications

References 13 publications

Community Supported Agriculture Farmers’ Perceptions of Management Benefits and Drawbacks

Community Supported Agriculture Farmers’ Perceptions of Management Benefits and Drawbacks

Food markets visitors: a typology proposal

Confusion and Misunderstanding—Interpretations and Definitions of Local Food

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