Measuring the Economic Impact of Farmers’ Markets on Local Economies in the Basque Country

Malagón-Zaldua, Eduardo; Zubillaga, Mirene Begiristain; Onederra-Aramendi, Aintzira

doi:10.3390/agriculture8010010

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“…However, these two methods impose a heavy burden on both researchers and participants [43,46,56,59,60]. Other farmers' market studies analyse self-reported use of government incentive programs, government incentive sales data or records of coupon redemption [61][62][63][64][65][66], self-reported amounts spent [67] or total sales [39]. Some studies on convenience stores use purchase data collected using these same methods [68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75].…”

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Fruit and Vegetable Purchases in Farmer’s Market Stands: Analysing Survey and Sales Data

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Farmers' market implementation holds promise for increasing access to healthy foods. Although rarely measured, purchase data constitute an intermediate outcome between food environment and actual consumption. In a study conducted with two seasonal Fruits and Vegetables (FV) stands in a disadvantaged area of Montréal (Canada), we analysed how accessibility, perception, and mobility-related factors were associated with FV purchase. This analysis uses a novel measure of FV purchasing practices based on sales data obtained from a mobile application. A 2016 survey collected information on markets' physical access, perceived access to FV in the neighbourhood, usual FV consumption and purchases. Multivariate models were used to analyse three purchasing practice indicators: number of FV portions, FV variety and expenditures. Average shoppers purchased 12 FV portions of three distinct varieties and spent 5$. Shoppers stopping at the market on their usual travel route spent less (p = 0.11), bought fewer portions (p = 0.03) and a lesser FV variety (p < 0.01). FV stands may complement FV dietary intake. Individuals for whom the market is on their usual travel route might make more frequent visits and, therefore, smaller purchases. The novel data collection method allowed analysis of multiple purchase variables, is precise and easy to apply at unconventional points of sales and could be transposed elsewhere.

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Fruit and Vegetable Purchases in Farmer’s Market Stands: Analysing Survey and Sales Data

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“…To estimate the increase in profits by eliminating the middleman using blockchain, prices of rice sold [6]of producer, wholesaler and the retailer dataset is created from the multiple datasets acquired from Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations [7]. The datasets obtained from FOA are analyzed and prices are normalized according to the requirements of the system and easy understanding.…”

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Blockchain: To Improvise Economic Efficiency and Supply Chain Management in Agriculture

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Abstract: As the population of the world is growing at a rapid pace. By 2050, projections show that there will be 9.2 billion people on the planet that needs to be feed. Farmers need more sustainable and productive ways to be employed to seize a prominent place in the market with compelling profits. One effective way to do that is by using Blockchain to eliminate the middleman and scaling the product effectively. A Blockchain is a distributed and immutable ledger that holds a permanent record of transactional data. It operates as a decentralised database managed by the peers in the network eliminating the middleman. Blockchain helps the farmers to secure more profits, achieving them at least 30% more than what they are earning by currently followed conventional techniques. Especially in the Indian market, the price gap is high between producer and retailer due to the intervention of a middleman. Blockchain not only increases the profits but also ensures the authenticity of the product in real time, providing the customers and peers more information about the product as it is easier to trace the details of the product back and forth through the chain. This also enhances and regulates the price variations providing farmers with the best price they canexpect for their product. This will gradually increase the involvement of more people and drives more investors towards the agriculture industry, funding more agriculture-based businesses increasing food production that can be able to feed the massive population sooner.

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“…This recent type of governance structure encourages FMs to be mission-oriented with a purpose related to health or environmental and social concerns that are attractive to consumers [35,36]. These alternative values are practiced through direct contact with, and support of, producers [37]; visibility in a community as opposed to the often, anonymous commercialism of supermarkets [38]; product freshness and healthfulness [36], community, education, and market ambience [27]; and attempts to rebuild more localized and ecologically sustainable food systems [28,39]. Consequently, such values in FMs create alternative or issue-driven communities of consumption' [4,40] that allow for direct marketing and local innovations that can enhance urban resilience and distinguish the values and practices of such FMs from supermarkets.…”

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From Schnitzel to Sustainability: Shifting Values at Vienna’s Urban Farmers Markets

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This paper presents an empirically grounded investigation of the values and practices of farmers markets (FM) in Vienna, Austria and their linkages to wider alternative food practices of ecological, social and economic sustainability. If the FMs are to play a vibrant role in the Viennese alternative food system, enhancing urban–rural connections and urban resilience, they must re–align their values to this system. A values-based conceptual framework is used to examine the structures and functions of six Viennese FMs and the alignment of values and practices among FM managers, farmers/vendors and consumers. Data from qualitative interviews, participant observation and dot surveys were collected at each FM. Value alignment is discovered as necessary to support and perpetuate alternative values. Governance is found to be significant for aligning values related to FM sustainability. Current structures and functions of Viennese FMs cannot be easily aligned with participant values and practices. As one of the first examinations of Viennese FMs, this work illustrates concrete challenges, priorities and emphasizes the role that governance and social organizing plays in successful markets as contributors towards sustainable urban food systems. Lessons learned can be applied to municipal FMs and other food system actors that face similar challenges.

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Measuring the Economic Impact of Farmers’ Markets on Local Economies in the Basque Country

Cited by 21 publications

References 36 publications

Fruit and Vegetable Purchases in Farmer’s Market Stands: Analysing Survey and Sales Data

Fruit and Vegetable Purchases in Farmer’s Market Stands: Analysing Survey and Sales Data

Blockchain: To Improvise Economic Efficiency and Supply Chain Management in Agriculture

From Schnitzel to Sustainability: Shifting Values at Vienna’s Urban Farmers Markets

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