26 articles in this issue
Duncan Hilchey
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Full text of this issue's editorial:In this issue that completes our sixth volume, we present several papers on short supply chains: food hubs, farm-to-grocers, farmers markets, local grains (in Ethiopia), and, interestingly, two different takes on divers... see more
John Ikerd
Olya Rysin, Rebecca Dunning
Rebecca Dunning
This article presents findings from a longitudinal case study of efforts by a 100-store regional grocery store chain to localize its supply of fresh produce. The study was conducted to better understand the development of collaborative supply chains betwe... see more
James Farmer, Sara Minard, Cliff Edens
While many state and federal programs exist to combat food insecurity, local-level community initiatives are also working to increase public access to local and healthy foods. Nevertheless, a prime venue for distributing local and healthy foods—farmers ma... see more
Christian Peters, Jennifer Wilkins, Scott Rosas, Brenda Pepe, Jamie Picardy, Gary Fick
Self-reliance measures the capacity of a geographic area to produce the food needed by its population. While the importance of food self-reliance, at even the national scale, is debated, the concept remains useful for evaluating the capacity of local and ... see more
Greg Harris, Denver Nixon, Lenore Newman, Kent Mullinix
In light of climate change, resource depletion and environmental degradation, food system vulnerability, and food insecurity, the potential to address issues of food system sustainability on local and regional scales is being increasingly recognized and ... see more
Love Jonson
While Portland, Oregon, gains renown for supporting locally grown, sustainably produced, healthy, or otherwise "good" food, it has failed to ensure equitable access to said food. As parts of the city gentrify, dislocated Portlanders find themselves withou... see more
Aisling Moroney, Seamus O'Reilly, Mary O'Shaughnessy
A range of push and pull factors encourage Irish farmers to diversify their operations, but they remain largely reluctant entrepreneurs, wedded to productivist models of agriculture. This paper is based on a study which involved intensive inter-views cond... see more
Megerssa Tolessa Walo
This study explores some of the challenges to strengthening rural-urban linkages for local economic development in the Guto Gidda district of Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Participants were selected from farmers, traders, small-scale processors of maize and ni... see more
Sara Moledor, Ali Chalak, Monika Fabian, Salma N. Talhouk
Laxmi Prasad Pant
First paragraphs:As a scholar working with the Regional and Rural Broadband research team in Canada (see http://www.r2b2project.ca), I was motivated to review Responsive Countryside: The Digital Age and Rural Communities, by Roberto Gallardo, to learn mor... see more
First paragraphs:As a scholar working with the Regional and Rural Broadband research team in Canada (see http://www.r2b2project.ca), I was motivated to review Responsive Countryside: The Digital Age and Rural Communities, by Roberto Gallardo, to... see more
Carrie A. Scrufari
First paragraphs:In Organic Revolutionary, Grace Gershuny (former staff member of the National Organic Program [NOP] of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA]) recalls her journey helping blaze a trail for organic certification in the 1990s. Her m... see more
First paragraphs:In Organic Revolutionary, Grace Gershuny (former staff member of the National Organic Program [NOP] of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA]) recalls her journey helping blaze a trail for organic certification in the 1990s. Her memoir... see more