Fostering Capacity-building Among Groups of Disadvantaged Farmers, Southeastern North Carolina (USA)

Print E-mail Barriers and Facilitators to Local Food Market Development: A Contingency Perspective

“…While LFS interest and development has grown in North Carolina and across the U.S., close observation of the process suggests that market development is not widespread and benefits generated from these markets are not distributed equally. For instance, local food research suggests that while the popularity of local food markets has grown, limited market accessibility is increasing disparities in nutritional opportunities for low-income consumers (Jones & Bhatia, 2011) and in economic opportunities for small-scale limited resource farmers (Anderson, 2007;Beratan, Jackson, & Godette, 2014;Stevenson et al, 2011). Therefore, more indepth examination of how local context can impede the development or expansion of local food markets is necessary, as it may give us insight into what conditions contribute most to the limited accessibility disadvantaged groups have.…”

Small and Minority Farmers' Knowledge and Resource Sharing Networks, and Farm Sales: Findings from Communities in Tennessee, Maryland, and Delaware

“…The trust that is represented by social capital may be most valuable when it is used to address local problems involving the provision of public goods (Coleman, 1990;Flora & Flora, 2008;Rupasingha & Goetz, 2007). The strength of trustbased relationships is immensely important for cooperation among specific groups, such as disadvantaged and minority farmer groups (Beratan, Jackson, & Godette, 2014). Individual and community cooperation and interactions among farmers and between groups can help build their capacity in new entrepreneurial opportunities (Beratan et al, 2014) and local agri-food systems (Dunning et al, 2012).…”

“…The strength of trustbased relationships is immensely important for cooperation among specific groups, such as disadvantaged and minority farmer groups (Beratan, Jackson, & Godette, 2014). Individual and community cooperation and interactions among farmers and between groups can help build their capacity in new entrepreneurial opportunities (Beratan et al, 2014) and local agri-food systems (Dunning et al, 2012). It can also mitigate problems such as food insecurity in urban agriculture settings (Meenar & Hoover, 2012).…”

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“…The strength of trustbased relationships is immensely important for cooperation among specific groups, such as disadvantaged and minority farmer groups (Beratan, Jackson, & Godette, 2014). Individual and community cooperation and interactions among farmers and between groups can help build their capacity in new entrepreneurial opportunities (Beratan et al, 2014) and local agri-food systems (Dunning et al, 2012). It can also mitigate problems such as food insecurity in urban agriculture settings (Meenar & Hoover, 2012).…”