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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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Rural and remote health care: the case for spatial justice
Rural and Remote HealthAlmost universally, people living in rural and remote places die younger, poorer, and sicker than urban-dwelling citizens of the same country. Despite clear need, health services are commonly less available, and more costly and challenging to access ...
Karen Hayes, Kristy Coxon, Rosalind Bye
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study advances the literature on sustainable urban agriculture and alternative sustainable food production systems, which have gained momentum due to the need to strengthen regional food supply chains and meet the growing urban demand for fresh food. Indoor agriculture (IA) holds promise for year‐round cultivation of fresh produce even in
Joseph Seong +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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Divergence of Canadian and American Cities
American and British Studies Annual, 2008 The article outlines the evolution of Urban Geography approaches to the cities and elaborates the idea of the cities as multi spatial “bodies”. Further on it compares the development of Canadian and American cities and points out the main differences ...
Pavel Sedláček
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A produção da habitação e a diferenciação do espaço no arranjo populacional de Ribeirão Preto – SP
ConfinsThe objective of this research is to analyse and understand the operation of housing policies promoted by the State in conjunction with housing producing agents in small cities, in particular those located in the Immediate Geographic Region of Ribeirão ...
Everaldo Santos Melazzo +1 more
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Urban park soundscape in distinct sociocultural and geographical contexts
Noise Mapping, 2016 The importance of soundscape in urban public parks has galvanised researchers concerned with improving the sound environment in cities. Existing literature reveals, however, a relative paucity of studies on soundscape in particular sociocultural and ...
Lobo Soares Antonio Carlos +1 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2020 Platform urbanism understood as the impact of digital platforms on the materiality, daily lives and governance of cities is, we argue in this paper, a powerful form of actually existing smart urbanism.
Ola Söderström, Anne-Cécile Mermet
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.This study presents an Internet of Things‐based stormwater monitoring framework piloted at the University of Maryland campus to support Municipal Separate Stormwater Sewer System compliance and adaptive planning. Developed with key campus stakeholders, the framework integrates real‐time sensor deployment, data‐informed insights on runoff and water ...
Qianyao Si +16 more
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