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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
Full Text:: advantage of the new and abundant free-market based opportunities” (Bonanno, 2004, p. 44). Koc (1994

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
Full Text:: availability of $15 million in federal funds for a new program: the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Pilot

Farmers' markets and food access : Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) use at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon farmers' markets

Creator:: Finneran, Kathleen B.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon Farmers' Markets and its role in food access for SNAP participants. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach combining a farmers' market survey and household interviews, the study investigated who uses SNAP at the farmers'...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 12 state. Several years later, in 1981, the Wednesday market was started in Corvallis. The

Imagining them, reimagining ourselves : a case study of cultural appropriation and the politics of identity

Creator:: Smith-Nolan, Mary K.
Abstract:: Several popular cultural movements emphasizing indigenous spirituality have arisen in the United States and Europe within the past thirty years. Spiritual discourses attributed to Native Americans, among other groups, are borrowed by Euro-Americans in search of alternatives to dominant ideologies. In such a circumstance, Native Americans become part of a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: spiritual. The so-called New Age movement has, within it, several sub-movements, which are particularly

Prescribing politics : an examination of the local and global factors which govern access to "atypical" psychotropic medications for Oregon's unfunded clients

Creator:: Maxey, Judith L.
Abstract:: This thesis is based on a study conducted for the state of Oregon's Office of Mental Health Services (OMHS). OMHS' primary research objectives included 1) the identification of the unfunded population (individuals who are uninsured and ineligible for Medicaid) who seek services at community mental health programs and 2) an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: evaluations are prevalent in medical literature. These evaluations guide clinicians' and state and federal

California Community College Faculty Perceptions of Their Work within a Postmodern Market Economy

Creator:: Oliveira, Kristine Yvonne
Abstract:: The diversity of attitudes held by California community college faculty about Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) was studied. In twelve semi-structured interviews, faculty informants explained how their work has changed as a result of increased standardization and accountability measures, how they value those changes, and how they expect the profession to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Work within a Postmodern Market Economy AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kristine Y. Oliveira for the

The fetish market and animal parts trade of Mali, West Africa : an ethnographic investigation into cultural use and significance

Creator:: Edwards, Ian B.
Abstract:: While much research has examined the intricate interactions associated with the harvesting of wild animals for human consumption, little work has been undertaken in attempting to understand the greater socio-cultural significance of such use. In addition, to properly understand such systems of interaction, an intimate knowledge is required with regard...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on April 30. 2003. Title: The Fetish Market and Animal

Diversity at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site : processes of diversification in historical interpretation, visitor services, and workforce management

Creator:: Langford, Theresa E.
Abstract:: Issues of diversity are receiving significant attention within the National Park Service recently, due in large part to a growing awareness that its future as a relevant and viable agency is dependent upon improving its response to and management of diversity. A diversity assessment of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: National Park Service and other federal agencies recently, very few studies have applied questions

Pandemic Narratives Navigating Pregnancy and Social Services in the Time of COVID

Creator:: Ketsdever, Michael James
Abstract:: This creative writing project employs the use of ethnographic fiction to position the voices of newly mothering women within the literature surrounding gender inequality, access to social services, and pregnancy while being situated during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The voices of four women are brought to life within a broader...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: conversation of the role of the State to provide the necessary services to meet the necessary dietary, health

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

Creator:: Leaver, Jennifer Jensen
Abstract:: In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: New West: Confronting Conservation, Conflict and Change on Utah's Last Frontier. Abstract approved L

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Challenges to re-embedding food systems : tracing the decline and revival of a farmers’ market on the edge

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

Farmers' markets and food access : Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) use at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon farmers' markets

Imagining them, reimagining ourselves : a case study of cultural appropriation and the politics of identity

Prescribing politics : an examination of the local and global factors which govern access to "atypical" psychotropic medications for Oregon's unfunded clients

California Community College Faculty Perceptions of Their Work within a Postmodern Market Economy

The fetish market and animal parts trade of Mali, West Africa : an ethnographic investigation into cultural use and significance

Diversity at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site : processes of diversification in historical interpretation, visitor services, and workforce management

Pandemic Narratives Navigating Pregnancy and Social Services in the Time of COVID

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

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