Unpacking the terms of engagement with local food at the Farmers’ Market: Insights from Ontario

Smithers, John; Lamarche, Jérémy; Joseph, Alun E.

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2007.12.009

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“…Conventions of quality are well researched in local foods research (Holloway and Kneafsey 2000;Jarosz 2000;Murdoch et al 2000;Andreatta and Wickliffe 2002;Perez et al 2003;Sage 2003;Goland 2008;Smithers et al 2008). The main finding here is that those conventions are not innate and universal but are instead continually negotiated between grower and buyer.…”

Section: Commodity Practicementioning

confidence: 77%

Scaling-up local foods: Commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA)

Nost

2014

Journal of Rural Studies

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Section: Commodity Practicementioning

confidence: 77%

Scaling-up local foods: Commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA)

Nost

2014

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…In most cases it means that the food was grown in close physical proximity to the consumer (e.g., a few miles from the point of sale, was produced in the same city, or in the same state) (Martinez et al, 2010). It can also mean food sold in an alternative food market (Smithers et al, 2008). Furthermore, it could also refer to the food that has the unique characteristics of a particular place, or carries a certain local cultural value or significance (Sonnino, 2007).…”

Section: Local Food -Definitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These markets have emerged and/or grown in northern countries, as an important place of engagement for producers, consumers and producers of local foods. However, FMs are seen as a complex and ambiguous space where the local notions of quality, authenticity and legitimacy find expression in communications and transactions around food (Smithers et al, 2008). A recent empirical analysis involving sellers, buyers and managers in 15 markets in Ontario, Canada sought to understand how participants "read" the market as a breathing space and then build the terms of (their) "engagement" (Cicatiello et al, 2015).…”

Section: Farmers and Local Food Commercementioning

confidence: 99%

Local food: benefits and failings due to modern agriculture

Coelho

Coelho²,

Egerer

2018

Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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This paper aims to examine the issue raised by the consumption of locally produced food in all its various aspects, and in particular, addresses how this practice contributes to local and global sustainability. It analyzes the different definitions of local food, the strategies used, the implications of the distance traveled in the transportation of food to the consumer's table -food miles, the relationships between local food consumption and sustainability, farming practices that reduce carbon emissions, contribution of urban agriculture to local food, local trading of food produced by rural farmers, as well as a number of relationships between the consumption of local food and human nutrition and health, local food protection and the ability to support local food production for humanitarian actions in disaster situations. The promotion of "local food" is a complex problem covering environmental issues, the economy and health.Transportation is not the only factor that determines how efficient it is to consume local food. Often, the technologies used for agricultural production are those most responsible for the degree of sustainability in the production and supply of food to the population. Local production does not always mean lower emissions of greenhouse gases. In general, the consumption of local foods, produced in ways adapted to the local environment using technologies with an ecological basis, is something beneficial and salutary for the environment, economy and society in general.

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“…On the other hand, and mostly from the perspective of the consumers, local products have a number of benefits which are usually centred around trust: knowledge of the origins of food, ingredients 2 , re-personalization of commercial relations, etc. (Smithers et al 2008). In this latter sense, local food related initiatives include many attempts whose aim is to connect producers to consumers.…”

Section: Local Food Consumption As Alternative Consumptionmentioning

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Discourses about the meaning of the local food Investigations in Romanian urban contexts

Nistor¹

2015

Socio.hu

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Up to now only a few studies about local food consumption in Romania have been realized and the majority of them are quantitative investigations. The aim of the present research which is based on focus group interviews was to bring further nuance to these previous quantitative data by asking the respondents to develop deeper narratives about what local food means to them, how they relate to local foods, how they perceive the different features of local foods (e.g. tradition, organic, taste, ingredients, etc.) and which are their motivations and impediments in connection with local food consumption. The research showed that consumers' involvement with local food occurs along product-based aspects, i.e. the intrinsic characteristics of food (taste, ingredients) and local food consumption seems to be much more motivated by health concerns and status assignment than by ethical and ecological reasons. Two major definitions of local food were mapped: 1) a place-centred, geographical definition and 2) a production-centred, 'how it is made' kind of definition.

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Unpacking the terms of engagement with local food at the Farmers’ Market: Insights from Ontario

Cited by 178 publications

References 52 publications

Scaling-up local foods: Commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA)

Scaling-up local foods: Commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA)

Local food: benefits and failings due to modern agriculture

Discourses about the meaning of the local food Investigations in Romanian urban contexts

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