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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...

Resource Type:

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...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis