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Local Food Economics Resource and Journal Directory

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2022

Opportunities to support beginning farmers and ranchers in the 2023 Farm Bill
Becca B. R. Jablonski; Nigel Key; Joleen Hadrich;
Allie Bauman; Sarah Campbell; Dawn Thilmany
Martha Sullins

202210-1108_AFR-05-2021-0056-1.pdf

The profitability implications of sales through local food markets for beginning farmers and ranchers
Becca B.R. Jablonski, Joleen Hadrich, Allison Bauman, Martha Sullins, Dawn Thilmany
Agricultural Finance Review
The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 directed the US Secretary of Agriculture to report on the profitability and viability of beginning farmers and ranchers. Many beginning operations use local food markets as they provide more control, or a premium over commodity prices, and beginning operations cannot yet take advantage of economies of scale and subsequently have higher costs of production. Little research assesses the relationship between beginning farmer profitability and sales through local food markets. In this paper, the profitability implications of sales through local food markets for beginning farmers and ranchers are explored.

2020

Do Cottage Food Laws Reduce Barriers to Entry for Food Manufacturers?
JK O'Hara, M Castillo, DT McFadden
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
States have increasingly adopted cottage food laws across the United States. The laws allow small‐scale food entrepreneurs to produce nonrefrigerated foods in home kitchens and sell them via direct‐to‐consumer outlets.

2020

Local Foods Go Downstream: Exploring the Spatial Factors Driving US Food Manufacturing
SA Low, M Bass, D Thilmany, M Castillo
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
Manufacturing, specifically food and beverage production, is a key employer in rural areas and has linkages to the agricultural sector. Using data drawn from the National Establishment Time‐Series for 2013–15, we explore what entrepreneurship, farm …

2020

Local Food Market Orientation and Labor Intensity
BBR Jablonski, A Bauman, D Thilmany
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2020
This research uses descriptive analysis to provide a preliminary examination of the
role of human capital in farms and ranches that sell through local food markets.

2019

A new book, Sustainable Food System Assessment: Lessons from Global Practice, edited by Alison Blay-Palmer, Damien Conaré, Ken Meter, Amanda Di Battista, and Carla Johnston.

Published by Routledge Press (UK), released December 12, 2019.

This book features cutting-edge scholarship on food system assessment written by several scholars working in diverse regions internationally, with strong representation from the Global South. It includes scholars holding diverse approaches to systemic analysis. This is published through the FLEdGE network coordinated by Alison Blay-Palmer at Wilifred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

One chapter written by Ken Meter covers techniques for performing food system assessment in complex adaptive systems.

2019

The Farmers Market Metrics Project: Reflections on regional food system assessment in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro
Hikaru Hanawa Peterson a * and Joseph J. Nowak b University of Minnesota Twin Cities

2019

Building Community Wealth Through Food and Farming

2019

Making Change through Local Food Production: Calculating the Economic Impact of Your Local Food Project
Dave Shideler, Philip Watson

2019

Building Multipliers, Rather than Measuring Them: Community-Minded Ways to Develop Economic Impacts
Megan Phillips Goldenberg, Ken Meter

2019

Improving Economic Contribution Analyses of Local Agricultural Systems: Lessons from a Study of the New York Apple Industry
Todd M. Schmit, Roberta M. Severson, Jesse Strzok, Jose Barros

2019

San Jose Food Works Study: Demonstrating the Economics of Local Food Systems Toolkit Methodology
Sibella Kraus

2019

Developing a Production Function for Small-Scale Farm Operations in Central Minnesota
Ryan Pesch, Brigid Tuck

2019

Finding Common Ground: Defining Agricultural Viability and Streamlining Multi-organization Data Collection
Libby Christensen, Learner Limbach

2018

Communicating Economic Impact Assessments
How Research Results Influence Decision-maker Attitudes toward the Local Food Sector

Mallory Lynn Rahe, Katrina Van Dis, Lauren Gwin

2018

Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Farm-to-school Procurement
An Approach for Primary and Secondary Financial Data Collection of Producers Selling to Schools

Libby Christensen, Becca B. R. Jablonski, Lacy Stephens, Anupama Joshi

2018

Designing Effective, Scalable Data Collection Tools to Measure Farmers Market Impacts
Darlene Wolnik, Jennifer Cheek, Marian Weaver

2018

Farm-to-School Programs’ Local Foods Activity in Southern Arizona
Local Foods Foolkit Applications and Lessons

Dari Duval, Ashley K. Bickel, George B. Frisvold

2019

Assessing a local food system: The Palouse-Clearwater Food Coalition assessment process
Allison Bauman Colorado State University, Colette DePhelps University of Idaho Extension, Dawn Thilmany McFadden Colorado State University
January 2019

2019

What is a ‘multiplier’ anyway? Assessing the Economics of Local Food Systems Toolkit
Becca B. R. Jablonski and Dawn Thilmany McFadden, Colorado State University
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, January 2019

2018

Crafting Winning LFPP / FMPP Proposals April 12th, 2018
Best practices and insider secrets for planning and writing LFPP/FMPP proposals.

2016

Regional food freight: Lessons from the Chicago region
Miller, M., Holloway, W., Perry, E., Zietlow, B., Kokjohn, S., Lukszys, P., Chachula, N. Reynolds, A., and Morales, A.
Project report October 2016

2014

Planning for Food Systems in Lugo, Spain
Alfonso Morales, Andres Manuel García, Wim Timmermans, Rafael Crecente, and Ad Woudstra

2014

Rural Cooperatives May/June 2014

Marketplaces: Prospects for Social, Economic, and Political Development
Alfonso Morales

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