Linkages Between Community-Focused Agriculture, Farm Sales, and Regional Growth

Brown, Jason P.; Goetz, Stephan J.; Ahearn, Mary Clare; Liang, Chyi Lyi

doi:10.1177/0891242413506610

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“…Economic performanceThe creation and equitable distribution of added value is strong in value chains where the farmers hold a dominant position in the governance of the chain (in groups 3 and 4, and group 2 for cheese). Brown et al (2013) also found that farmers involved in short value chains and direct sales could significantly improve their income, although the effect on economic growth at regional level was not visible. On the contrary, affordability (mostly measured as the retail price) is clearly an asset of the global products in group 1, together with the two larger-scale locality products surveyed (Parma Ham and Gruyère).…”

Section: Strengths and Weaknesses In Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Comparing the sustainability of local and global food products in Europe

Schmitt¹,

Galli²,

Menozzi³

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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In the debate surrounding the sustainable future of food, claims like “buy local” are widespread in publications and the media, supported by the discourse that buying “local food” provides ecological, health and socio-economic benefits. Recognising the lack of scientific evidence for this claim, this paper aims to compare the results of sustainability assessments for 14 local and global food products in four sectors within four European countries. Each sector has been analysed independently using sustainability indicators across five dimensions of sustainability: environmental, economic, social, health and ethics. In order to determine if local products generally perform better, an outranking analysis was conducted to rank the products relative to their sustainability performance. Outranking is a multi-criteria decision aid method that allows comparison of alternatives based on quantitative and qualitative indicators at different scales. Each product is also characterized by a degree of localness in order to relate sustainability and localness. The results are given in the form of phi flows, which are relative preference scores of one product compared to other ones in the same sector. The rankings showed that global products consistently come last in terms of sustainability, even when the preference functions and weighting of the indicators were varied. The first positions of the rankings were taken either by the most local or an intermediary product. Moreover, detailed rankings at the attribute level showed the relative strengths and weaknesses of each food product along the local-global continuum. It appeared that the strength of local and intermediary products was mainly in health and socio-economic dimensions, particularly aspects of care and links to the territory such as biodiversity, animal welfare, governance or resilience. In relation to global food products, they presented substantial advantages in terms of climate change mitigation and affordability to consumers. This contrasts with the food-miles ecological claim. Thus, we conclude that distance is not the most critical factor in improving sustainability of food products, and that other criteria of localness (identity, governance or size) play a more critical role. © 201

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Section: Strengths and Weaknesses In Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Comparing the sustainability of local and global food products in Europe

Schmitt¹,

Galli²,

Menozzi³

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

131

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“…A set of values (expressed in terms of social justice or solidarity) is thus driving a transition to a societal model in which the living and working conditions of farmers are expected to be better. The perception of deep-rooted imbalances in the distribution of added value in supply chains, which increase as supply chains get longer (Brown et al 2013;Schmitt et al 2017), has encouraged the organisation of multiple business initiatives driven by the values of fair trade (Therond et al 2017). This need to overhaul the agricultural social model was stressed by the Etats Généraux de l'Alimentation 4 in France, in 2017.…”

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Agroecological Transition from Farms to Territorialised Agri-Food Systems: Issues and Drivers

Magrini

Martin

Magne

et al. 2019

Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design

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Agroecological transition corresponds to a systemic transformation consisting in the ecologisation of agriculture and food. It concerns multiple stakeholders (farmers, supply chains, natural resource managers, etc.) and is characterised by a deliberate political intention to bring about change. This chapter highlights a set of determinants of agroecological transition at play in transforming the techniques and the values underpinning both agricultural production and food consumption choices -both of which can lead to various new agri-food systems. Based on the literature on transition studies, we focus on several considerations that could help stakeholders to better engage in such a process: (i) transition takes place over time intervals that vary, depending on the analysis scale (the farm or the agri-food system as a whole); (ii) transition is complex, systemic and requires changes of the whole sociotechnical regime; (iii) transition implies strong connections between nicheinnovations and the dominant sociotechnical regime; and (iv) changes in values and individuals' abilities are fundamental drivers. Hence, by focusing on the plurality of factors and stakeholders at work, we unpack the complexity of this transition, and in this way help the stakeholders to design and execute it. To conclude, we examine specific issues around the governance of agroecological transition.

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“…Brown et al (2014) examined whether local food in the United States has an indirect economic-development impact through its effect on overall local agricultural production. After controlling carefully for possible reverse causation, they found a statistically significant effect only in the Northeast.…”

Section: Studies Of the Impact Of Local Foodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Roles of Agricultural Economists in Food System Research

Goetz¹

2016

Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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Public interest in food systems has grown dramatically, and agricultural economists have important roles to play in contributing to and leading large-scale interdisciplinary studies of the subject. Key topics include understanding food system participants' behaviors and incentives and determining what food systems can and cannot achieve. I review a global food-security project funded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture that illustrates the interactions between production, distribution, and consumption of food and regional selfreliance, as well as other important areas in which agricultural and regional economists can gainfully apply their tools and methods, including studies of the impacts of local food and network analyses.

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Linkages Between Community-Focused Agriculture, Farm Sales, and Regional Growth

Cited by 44 publications

References 29 publications

Comparing the sustainability of local and global food products in Europe

Comparing the sustainability of local and global food products in Europe

Agroecological Transition from Farms to Territorialised Agri-Food Systems: Issues and Drivers

The Roles of Agricultural Economists in Food System Research

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