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Evaluation of the 2001 pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

Creator:

Saylor, Kirsten N.

Abstract:

The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), piloted in Oregon in 2001, provided $100 worth of vouchers (aka coupons) to low-income seniors to buy fresh local produce from farmers at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Presented in a political ecology framework, this research integrated the perspectives of beneficiaries and their...

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Masters Thesis

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2001 Pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program. Abstract Approved: The Senior Farmers
Challenges to re-embedding food systems : tracing the decline and revival of a farmers’ market on the edge

Creator:

Murray, Mary K.

Abstract:

A number of researchers view farmers’ markets as an appropriate vehicle for re-embedding food markets into communities (O’Hara & Stagl, 2001, Feenstra, 2002, Lyson, 2005). Amidst astounding growth in the number of farmers’ markets in the United States in recent decades, many markets struggle and fail. Recent research suggests that...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the