The majority of food in the US is distributed through global/national supply chains that exclude locally-produced goods. This situation offers opportunities to increase local food production and consumption and is influenced by constraints that limit the scale of these activities. We conducted a study to assess perspectives of producers and consumers engaged in food systems of a major Midwestern city. We examined producers’ willingness to include/increase cultivation of local foods and consumers’ interest in purchasing/increasing local foods. We used focus groups of producers (two groups of conventional farmers, four local food producers) and consumers (three conventional market participants, two locavores) to pose questions about production/consumption of local foods. We transcribed discussions verbatim and examined text to identify themes, using separate affinity diagrams for producers and consumers. We found producers and consumers are influenced by the
- Award ID(s):
- 1738776
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10472707
- Publisher / Repository:
- Southern Connecticut State University
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
- ISSN:
- 2473-2826
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- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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