“No money exchanged hands, no bartering took place. But it's still local produce”: Understanding local food systems in rural areas in the U.S. Heartland

Hendrickson, Mary; Massengale, Sarah Hultine; Cantrell, Randolph L.

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.07.005

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“…Thematic across many interviews with DS site representatives were social missions that included supporting the health and well-being of the Athens County population, improving the quality of life, and strengthening (or providing) a sense of community. These sentiments are similar to those expressed in other studies of local food systems, where building and maintaining community is a motivating factor for local producers to participate in localized food access interventions [22,74].…”

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“…Perceived impacts of supporting local producers and community, mission alignment, and patron satisfaction emerged across both models. A sense of pride associated with supporting the local producers, community self-sufficiency, framing of local food systems as a mechanism to support regional economic development, and the social desirability of participating in the local food economy are findings aligned with the existing literature [49,[74][75][76][77]. Mission alignment was more important to DS sites relative to CFS sites, particularly as CFS sites focused more attention on the cost of participating in the program.…”

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confidence: 60%

“…Conversely, DS sites receive produce at no cost, and participants indicated their sites have strong networks within the region, which allows for the quick re-routing of leftover produce. Existing research indicates that community networks serve a critical role in local food systems and localized interventions, particularly in rural areas [73,74]. CFS representatives did not discuss having similar networks to rely upon for the purpose of mitigating food waste; however, even if they are able to re-route unsold produce, they still risk not being able to recoup the costs of buying produce.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Local Value Chain Models of Healthy Food Access: A Qualitative Study of Two Approaches

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Food value chains are increasingly recognized as more equitable alternatives to traditional supply chains and may represent a novel mechanism to achieve health equity at the local level. Country Fresh Stops (CFS) and Donation Station (DS) are two complementary programs that are part of a more robust value chain designed to support local agriculture in Appalachia Ohio. As the first study of these programs in the peer-reviewed literature, the objectives were to identify factors that facilitate or hinder the implementation of these two local value chain models of healthy food access and to identify the perceived impacts from the perspective of the sites implementing them. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with CFS (n = 7) and DS (n = 10) site representatives in January 2020. Template analysis was used to identify themes through a priori and inductive codes. Participants identified two primary facilitators: support from partner organizations and on-site program stewardship. Produce (and program) seasonality and mitigating food waste were the most cited challenges. Despite challenges, both CFS and DS sites perceive the models to be successful efforts for supporting the local economy, achieving organizational missions, and providing consumers with greater access to locally grown produce. These innovative programs demonstrate good feasibility, but long-term sustainability and impacts on other key stakeholders merit further investigation.

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“…El propósito del trueque, es mejorar el bienestar tanto de los oferentes como de los demandantes, y por ambas partes asegurar la alimentación y no solo eso, en la dinámica del trueque están refugiados los saberes locales como recurso cognitivo propio de las comunidades campesinas de la sierra sur del Altiplano de Puno, estos saberes son bienes comunes y colectivos, que fácilmente no se puede desterrarlo, todo recurso cognitivo tradicional, es un bien no rival sin la intervención de dinero (Hendrickson et al, 2020). En las prácticas del trueque se encuentran los conocimientos de la antropología económica de la reciprocidad, la etno matemática, los conocimientos sobre la biodiversidad, y todo lo que refiere a la cosmovisión andina (FAO, 2016).…”

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“…El desarrollo del libre comercio no está exento de actividades impropias, turbias y, a menudo, corruptas que realizan algunos sectores no pobres o la actitud de empresas que se centran en el comercio de productos básicos abusan con comprar sus productos y venderle a precios por muy superior de su precio real amparados en poder dinero o que se aprovechan de las regulaciones promulgadas sobre el libre mercado también en desmedro de las familias pobres (Radetzki, 2021) No obstante que los sistemas alimentarios locales son frecuentemente respaldados como una estrategia de desarrollo económico por los gobiernos nacionales por intermedio de los profesionales del desarrollo económico local que sirven a las comunidades y regiones rurales, pero sin la intervención de las comunidades locales para ver su percepción de otros. Sin embargo, se desconoce la efectividad de las intervenciones de los sistemas alimentarios locales son más evidentes y están más desarrollados en áreas urbanas o periurbanas, mientras que faltan estudios sobre los sistemas alimentarios rurales en sí mismos que expongan lo que efectivamente ocurre (Hendrickson et al, 2020).…”

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Mercado de trueque y seguridad alimentaria en los distritos de Acora e Ilave de Puno-Perú: periodo 2015-2017

Huarachi-Coila

2022

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Algunas familias ubicadas en los sectores pobres no tienen recursos monetarios suficientes para la sobrevivencia, por ello, desde épocas ancestrales se practicó y lo siguen practicando el trueque como una forma de dar y recibir algún bien o servicio que carecen; cambiar un objeto por otros por necesidad sin la intervención dinero. Por ello, este estudió buscó evidenciar de qué manera el trueque se practica con mayor frecuencia como medio de subsistencia a la pobreza para cubrir la demanda insatisfecha, básicamente de alimentos. El procedimiento metodológico consistió en la aplicación de una encuesta a las familias que realizan el trueque en los distritos de Acora e Ilave, entre los meses de diciembre del 2015 a diciembre del 2017 en épocas de campaña agrícola; la información recolectada fue procesado con SPSS. Los resultados evidencian que el trueque tiene plena vigencia de intercambio de objetos disponibles con otros bienes requeridos para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria en la que no interviene el dinero. Proceso que se le denomina también permuta, dar lo suyo (propiedad) para recibir otros bienes equivalentes al bien dado. En la antigüedad se usaba más el intercambio de materia prima por artesanía o productos para la alimentación. La ventaja radicaba en que se mantenía stock de productos para propender a otros canales de comercialización. Se concluye, que a pesar de la persistencia del trueque con resultados favorables no siempre fue posible encontrar los otros bienes buscados, al igual que la equivalencia de los bienes no siempre calculan la valía real del bien en cuestión del trueque, de que se corren riesgo de perder por valor.

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Planning the foodshed: Rural and peri‐urban factors in local food strategies of major cities in Canada and the United States

Schreiber

Winkler

Abellon

et al. 2023

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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Many North American cities seek to increase access to locally sourced foods. But to what degree are cities planning for and supporting peri‐urban and rural food production? We examined this question by analyzing 25 documents from 22 major United States and Canadian cities (>300,000 residents) with local food strategies or action plans, focusing on social, ecological, and technological factors relevant to local food production. Our review suggests that the following topics are often overlooked: farmland access and quality, farm viability, agricultural training and workforce, environmental and public health, processing infrastructure, climate change adaptation, and particular needs pertinent to those concerns among marginalized groups, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Just under half of the cities defined how success or progress toward reaching their food‐related goals would be monitored and measured. Many municipalities considered collaboration as an important governance tool for realizing their strategies toward local food systems, including with actors from within the city and beyond, as cities’ governance scope, resources, and power are often limited. Besides illustrating ongoing municipal efforts to enhance local food systems, our study identifies focus areas in food policy and planning to avoid overlooking social and environmental trade‐offs in local foodsheds, including potentially overestimating self‐sufficiency capacity.

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“No money exchanged hands, no bartering took place. But it's still local produce”: Understanding local food systems in rural areas in the U.S. Heartland

Cited by 18 publications

References 34 publications

Local Value Chain Models of Healthy Food Access: A Qualitative Study of Two Approaches

Local Value Chain Models of Healthy Food Access: A Qualitative Study of Two Approaches

Mercado de trueque y seguridad alimentaria en los distritos de Acora e Ilave de Puno-Perú: periodo 2015-2017

Planning the foodshed: Rural and peri‐urban factors in local food strategies of major cities in Canada and the United States

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