Local food systems and sustainable communities

Feenstra, Gail

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“…CSA is considered a 'win-win' for farmers and consumers. Farmers gain a direct market while members have greater access to seasonal and diverse local foods, and opportunities to know and trust the source of their foods (15)(16)(17) .…”

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Linking vegetable preferences, health and local food systems through community-supported agriculture

Wilkins

Farrell

Rangarajan

2015

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The objective of the present study was to explore the influence of participation in community-supported agriculture (CSA) on vegetable exposure, vegetable intake during and after the CSA season, and preference related to locally produced vegetables acquired directly from CSA growers. Design: Quantitative surveys were administered at three time points in two harvest seasons to four groups of CSA participants: new full-paying, returning full-paying, new subsidized and returning subsidized members. Questionnaires included a vegetable frequency measure and measures of new and changed vegetable preference. Comparisons were made between new and returning CSA members and between those receiving subsidies and full-paying members.

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Linking vegetable preferences, health and local food systems through community-supported agriculture

Wilkins

Farrell

Rangarajan

2015

Public Health Nutr.

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“…The benefits and potential of urban farming towards the community can be categorised into four, which are environmental stewardship (Lydecker & Drechsel, 2010;HB Lanarc-Golder, 2013), economic reliance (Giedych, 2015;Lyson, Gillespie & Hilchey, 1995), social improvement (Scott, 2015;Sharp, Imerman & Peters, 2002;Feenstra, 1997) as well as health and nutrition (Kumar, 2015). Cabannes (2006) reported that urban farming is also an investment strategy in developed countries to bring urban people back to nature, opening eyes and minds to the global issues, and to educate children from the natural cycle of life through landscape environment.…”

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Roles of Community Towards Urban Farming Activities

Yusoff

Hussain

Tukiman

2017

PMJ

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The aim of this paper is to review and analyse the importance of the framework for urban farming activities to be implemented within cities environment. This paper also describes the role of the community to achieve the environmental, economic and social sustainability for the enhancement of the urban environment and healthy lifestyles through community participation in food supplies, nutrition, and spaces utilization. The paper evaluates the benefits and potential of urban farming activities within limited urban spaces and how it improves the quality of life. It also reviews on how urban farming is beneficial to the society due to food shortage crisis which is inadequate for the whole population. It is necessary to apply and practice in our daily lives for the consumption of food security, human safety, and health. Therefore, the role of community is very crucial in the implementation of urban farming activities within urbanized areas as the demand for green development increases. Based on this theoretical framework, it is hoped that the paper will be a useful addition to the body of knowledge in promoting a stronger community interdependence to create the sustainable urban environment.

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“…For example Marsden et al, (1999), Ross et al (1999), Marsden et al (2000), Hinrichs (2003), Winter (2003), and Ikerd (2005) have all suggested that expansion of local foods may be a development strategy for rural areas, particularly those areas that have experienced negative effects of globalization. And while many scholars have highlighted the importance of local food systems to regional economies (Feenstra 1997;Trobe 2001;Renting et al 2003;Star et al 2003;Bhatia and Jones 2011), few have sought to exploit recent theoretical frames advanced by researchers from the fields of economic geography and regional science; the fields most concerned with regional economic development. The concept of local and regional foods as a regional development strategy and, by extension, the analysis of regional food systems in the context of the city-region, present a unique theoretical lens of which new insights into the factors that influence the emergence of such systems can be examined.…”

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Implications of Local and Regional Food Systems: Toward a New Food Economy in Portland, Oregon

Mertens¹

2000

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The local food movement in the Portland Metro Region of Oregon is as prevalent as anywhere in the Country. To a large degree this is driven by the Portland Metro area food culture and the diverse agricultural landscape present in the Willamette Valley and throughout the State. Portlanders demand local food and thus far the rural periphery has been able to provide it; driving a new food economy that has economic implications throughout the region. As this regional food economy emerges much attention has been focused on harnessing its power for economic development perpetuated by the belief that there exists an opportunity to foster a cluster of economic activity pertaining to the production, processing, distribution and sale of regional foods that might generate economic opportunities throughout the value chain.The research presented here constitutes an attempt to characterize the local and regional food system that currently exists in the Portland Metro Region and to bring to light the opportunities present at the regional scale that link the agricultural periphery to the urban core. I present two different definitions of local and regional food systems and show how these different conceptions have very different implications for economic development.Once defined, I test for differences between local and regional food systems and the export-oriented, agro-food sector by analyzing aspects of geographic space and processes of knowledge accumulation and innovation in the context of aspects of regional economic ii development such as agglomeration economies, knowledge spillovers, business life cycle and industrial location.My analysis showed that there are significant differences between local and regional food systems and the export-oriented agro-food industry specific to supply chains, actors and products of the different systems. Furthermore, through spatial analysis, I found that there are differences in terms of the spatial structure and distribution between producers who participate in the different systems. Local and regional producers tend to cluster closer together at smaller scales, are smaller in size and are found to be closer to the urban core. Through a qualitative inquiry I found that this clustering facilitates forces of agglomeration economies specific to food producers who participate in local and regional supply chains, particularly non-pecuniary effects of knowledge accumulation. This underlying structure has significant effects on economic outcomes and as such has implications in terms of regional economic development when local and regional food systems are considered in terms of the city-region.iii Acknowledgements

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Local food systems and sustainable communities

Cited by 469 publications

References 8 publications

Linking vegetable preferences, health and local food systems through community-supported agriculture

Linking vegetable preferences, health and local food systems through community-supported agriculture

Roles of Community Towards Urban Farming Activities

Implications of Local and Regional Food Systems: Toward a New Food Economy in Portland, Oregon

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