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Civic agriculture : the successes, trials, and future of the local food movement in the Willamette Valley

Creator:

Klingensmith, Thomas S.

Abstract:

This study investigated the local and sustainable food movements in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The aim of the research was to better understand the current condition of the phenomenon, what it means to the communities studied and the future role it will play in the state. Other research objectives...

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Masters Thesis
Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

Creator:

D'Alessandro, Erica

Abstract:

Limited research has analyzed how the values espoused by Western alternative food systems, such as taste and territoriality, are adopted and refashioned in post-socialist societies. Muscovites now echo the global quality turn that reconnects consumers to their food sources. This research qualitatively explores the perspectives of the cosmopolitan consumers of...

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Masters Thesis
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