Farmer perspectives on farmers markets in low-income urban areas: a case study in three Michigan cities

Montri, Dru N.; Chung, Kimberly; Behe, Bridget K.

doi:10.1007/s10460-020-10144-3

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“…Our findings lend credence to the claims of researchers who argue that more than half of all farmers are at risk of financial insecurity (Key et al 2019;Hoppe 2017;Carlisle et al 2019). Some farmers take off-farm jobs to make ends meet and stave off financial insecurity (USDA 2019d; Carlisle et al 2019;Montri et al 2021). We found evidence of this in our study.…”

Section: Other Responses To the Pandemicsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Studies of Michigan's farmers usually ignore how the race or gender of the farm operators influence action (see, for example, Montri et al 2021). However, one study that examines 32 female farmers in Michigan's Lower Peninsula assessed the relationship between women, farming, and empowerment (Wright and Annes 2016).…”

Section: The Demographic Characteristics Of Michigan's Farmersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A recent study of 27 farmers in Michigan shows that 59% of them own their farm, while 11% rent, lease, or borrow the land they farm (Montri et al 2021). Scholars also report that some of Michigan's farms struggle financially (Black and Jones 2019).…”

Section: The Demographic Characteristics Of Michigan's Farmersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The emergency food requests may also be related to the expressed social mission of farms. Montri et al (2021) found that some Michigan farmers say they enter farming to fulfill social missions. Such social missions include producing locally grown food, increasing food sovereignty in Communities of Color, or increasing access to healthy and affordable food.…”

Section: Other Responses To the Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding the challenges faced by Michigan’s family farmers: race/ethnicity and the impacts of a pandemic

Taylor

Farias²,

Kahan

et al. 2022

Agric Hum Values

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Michigan is a critical agricultural state, and small family farms are a crucial component of the state’s food sector. This paper examines how the race/ethnicity of the family farm owners/operators is related to farm characteristics, financing, and impacts of the pandemic. It compares 75 farms owned/operated solely by Whites and 15 with People of Color owners/operators. The essay examines how farmers finance their farm operations and the challenges they face doing so. The article also explores how the Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic affected farming operations, the financial viability of farms, and how farmers responded to the challenges posed by the pandemic. The study found that People of Color farm owners/operators were younger than White farm owners/operators. The People of Color farm owners/operators tended to manage smaller farms for shorter periods than White farm owners/operators. Though two-thirds of the Farmers of Color owned their farms, they were more financially vulnerable than White farm owners/operators. The farmers studied had difficulty obtaining loans to finance their farms. Farmers reported increasing requests from people for food assistance during the pandemic. Farmers responded to the pandemic by participating in government programs such as the Farm to Families Food Box Program that purchased their produce. It allowed farmers to supply emergency food assistance programs with products from their farms. The products went to families receiving food assistance from soup kitchens, food banks, and other community-based nonprofits.

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Section: Other Responses To the Pandemicsupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: The Demographic Characteristics Of Michigan's Farmersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Demographic Characteristics Of Michigan's Farmersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Other Responses To the Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding the challenges faced by Michigan’s family farmers: race/ethnicity and the impacts of a pandemic

Taylor

Farias²,

Kahan

et al. 2022

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“…We investigate how vendors and managers perceive the tangible impacts of their markets, as well as how those impacts are tracked. This is particularly important in the context of research seeking to empirically measure how markets affect their local communities (Ledesma et al, 2021) and scholarship describing the importance of markets providing multiple benefits to communities for vendor retention (Montri et al, 2021).…”

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Manager and vendor perceptions of farmers’ markets’ impacts on communities: evidence from Michigan

Warsaw

Wentworth

Lewis

et al. 2022

IJSSP

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PurposeThe purposes of this paper are to: (1) characterize farmers’ market manager and vendor perceptions of the economic, social and environmental impact markets have on their local communities; and (2) how those impacts are tracked and communicated to market actors and the local community.Design/methodology/approachTwenty-nine semistructured interviews were conducted with market managers and vendors across four farmers’ markets within Michigan. The interviews were coded and analyzed using thematic analysis.FindingsManagers and vendors report economic and social and environmental benefits associated with the presence of a farmers' market, consistent with the existing literature. Metrics are tracked to estimate market impact, particularly economic and social benefits. Market managers reported uncertainty about how best to use data internally, and there are gaps in communicating market impacts with vendors. Most data are used for external reporting, to statewide organizations or for grant evaluation. Respondents reported data fatigue and unwillingness among vendors to share personal business information due to concerns about privacy relative to the perceived benefits of sharing data.Practical implicationsAdditional resources are needed for markets, specifically market managers, to better utilize the data they collect for internal versus external purposes.Originality/valueMetric collection and reporting are a nascent development among markets. Understanding how market actors are utilizing these tools will provide guidance to improve future efforts at impact measurement.

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Urban Food Markets in Rome: A General Overview from the Vendors’ Perspective

Spiro,

Cianfa,

Prosperi

2023

RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft

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Farmer perspectives on farmers markets in low-income urban areas: a case study in three Michigan cities

Cited by 11 publications

References 50 publications

Understanding the challenges faced by Michigan’s family farmers: race/ethnicity and the impacts of a pandemic

Understanding the challenges faced by Michigan’s family farmers: race/ethnicity and the impacts of a pandemic

Manager and vendor perceptions of farmers’ markets’ impacts on communities: evidence from Michigan

Urban Food Markets in Rome: A General Overview from the Vendors’ Perspective

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