Planning, Delivering, and Evaluating an Extension In-Service Training Program for Developing Local Food Systems: Lessons Learned

Lelekacs, Joanna Massey; Bloom, J. Dara; Jayaratne, K. S. U.; Leach, Brandi; Wymore, Teisha; Mitchell, Coral

doi:10.54718/dbxb6775

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“…There is much work around food deserts, both in rural and urban areas where residents do not have adequate access to healthy foods [1,86,87]. Some areas have developed programs and policies geared towards helping ensure more access for their residents, ranging from aiding the development of CSAs to direct distribution programs [88,89]. We would be able to examine this research by using our design method to gain access to FMs and CSAs at the regional, state, and local levels.…”

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Assessing Healthy Effects between Local Level Farmer’s Markets and Community-Supported Agriculture and Physical Well-Being at the State Level

Kraeger,

Phillips,

Lubin

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Much change has occurred in the recent past around food systems at the local level. As interest continues to rise, we were curious to examine connections of local food systems and well-being in the context of the places they operate at the state level. Health is a central component of food well-being. In this article, we focus on physical well-being. We explore the connection between food systems, as represented by farmers markets (FMs), community-supported agriculture (CSAs), and physical well-being using state level data. To investigate these relationships, we conducted an ordinal logistic regression model analyzing 2016 data from the United States Department of Agriculture for the 50 states. The results of this study suggest that there is an inconclusive relationship at the state level. While local FMs and CSAs may increase physical well-being at the state level, we did not find this in our study. This finding adds to the body of literature where the majority of the studies in this area are case studies, ethnographies, and smaller studies using some regional data and small samples for local data. We believe that this conceptual work will allow for future empirical studies to build upon this study to conduct further empirical work examining regional state and local datasets for more conclusive findings.

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Assessing Healthy Effects between Local Level Farmer’s Markets and Community-Supported Agriculture and Physical Well-Being at the State Level

Kraeger,

Phillips,

Lubin

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…Local food practitioners identified training and education as needs to professionalize the field based on the results of two national surveys from the North American Food Systems Network (NAFSN), which were conducted in 2012 and 2019 (Hilchey et al, 2021). Meanwhile, additional groups and organizations, such as Cooperative Extension, have developed formal training opportunities to educate local food system practitioners on the interdisciplinary aspects of food system development, approaches to working in local food systems, and related research in this field, based on individual needs assessments and curriculum development processes (Dunning et al, 2012;Lelekacs et al, 2016).…”

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Applying emerging core competencies to extension training courses for local food system practitioners

Dankbar

Long²,

Bloom³

et al. 2023

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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In 2019, a national group of local food system educators and practitioners identified over 140 foundational core competencies critical to local food system development work and began to identify existing educational resources related to these competencies. This process resulted in a new aggregated resource: the Local Food System Practitioner and Educational Resource Database. Included in this database is a core competency matrix that distinguishes three levels of learning for each competency so that practitioners can identify learning opportunities most closely tailored to their educational needs. It also serves as a framework and competency matrix for educators to use to help assess and communicate the learning outcomes of their curricula. This framework is the overall concept for understanding the competencies, and the matrix is the tool developed to assess and evaluate the level at which an educational resource teaches a competency. In this article we apply the newly create core competency matrix to two existing local food system development courses. We share lessons learned from applying the matrix and insights gained from comparing two introductory level courses. We conclude with recommendations for improving the resource database and matrix to a more user-friendly model for educators and local food system practitioners.

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Information Needs and Information-seeking Behaviors of Urban Food Producers: Implications for Urban Extension Programs

Kopiyawattage¹,

Warner²,

Roberts³

2018

JAE

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Extension is challenged with meeting the needs of a variety of stakeholders. As the country becomes more urban, Extension may need to adapt programming to reach new clients. Having an understanding about what, when, and how urban food producers gather information is important to address their needs. Information that is relevant, up-to-date, and meets clients' needs, enables their ability to adopt new ideas and innovative technologies, providing more opportunities for success. A mixed-method research design explored the information needs and information-seeking behavior of urban food producers in Columbus, Ohio. Urban food producers in this study most needed information to increase food production. Respondents preferred to receive information from the Internet and other electronic media over conventional information sources. This group of urban producers trusted information from university and Extension sources, but expressed mixed opinions about their personal experiences with OSU Extension.

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Planning, Delivering, and Evaluating an Extension In-Service Training Program for Developing Local Food Systems: Lessons Learned

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

Assessing Healthy Effects between Local Level Farmer’s Markets and Community-Supported Agriculture and Physical Well-Being at the State Level

Assessing Healthy Effects between Local Level Farmer’s Markets and Community-Supported Agriculture and Physical Well-Being at the State Level

Applying emerging core competencies to extension training courses for local food system practitioners

Information Needs and Information-seeking Behaviors of Urban Food Producers: Implications for Urban Extension Programs

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