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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

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monitoring this market. Community embeddedness emerged as crucial to sustaining and reviving this farmers
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'...

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Masters Thesis