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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.

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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...

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Masters Thesis

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Revival of a Farmers’ Market on the Edge Abstract approved: Garry O. Stephenson A
Who's afraid of a little nitrate? : discovering impediments and incentives in following best management practices related to water quality within the southern Willamette Valley groundwater management area

Creator:

Rolston, Irene

Abstract:

Thesis summarizes interviews with growers residing within the Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) in the Southern Willamette Valley of Oregon. Informal and semi-structured interviews were used to identify perceived impediments and incentives perceived by local farmers in following best management practices related to water quality. Results from the interviews were coded...

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Masters Thesis

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State of Oregon; the "law requires that DEQ declare a groundwater management area when there is