Embeddedness and local food systems: notes on two types of direct agricultural market

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A comparison is presented between two direct agricultural markets, the farmers' market and a community supported agricultural system. While farmers' markets establish close ties between farmers and consumers, a community supported system reduces the importance of commodity in food supply exchanges.

Social aspects, Marketing, Food supply, Agricultural cooperatives, Farm produce, Agricultural products, Farmers' markets, Agriculture, Cooperative

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Embeddedness, the new food economy and defensive localism

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The embeddedness and the turn to quality in agro-food research are examined. The notion of embeddedness requires scrutiny and the implications of the turn to quality for the geography of agriculture may not be radical.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, FOOD AND KINDRED PRODUCTS, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION--CROPS, Agricultural industry, Forecasts and trends, Food industry, Market trend/market analysis, Food research, Food and beverage production/distribution software

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The geography of Washington's world apple: global expressions in a local landscape

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The authors discuss the ways in which the internationization of farming and farm labor has changed the landscape of the State of Washington's fresh apple industry growing area.

International, Washington, Analysis, International economic relations, Agricultural laborers, Landscape changes

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