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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Urban agriculture as an evolved sustainable urban livelihood: evidence from Kampala city, Uganda

open access: yesAgriculture & Food Security
Background For centuries, urban agriculture has been a vital livelihood strategy of urban households in developing countries. Previous studies looked at urban agriculture at a point in time as an urban livelihood for the urban poor that struggle with ...
Japheth Kwiringira   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Les fermes urbaines en Suisse : hybridations agri-urbaines ou simples redéfinitions des catégories usuelles  ?

open access: yesVertigO, 2018
The concept of urban agriculture upsets the categories of thinking and practising the territories of city and agriculture, categories still largely associated with separate worlds.
Cyril Mumenthaler   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

L’économie circulaire : une source d’innovation pour les agriculteurs urbains

open access: yesVertigO, 2018
Cities contain resources that can be exploited for agricultural production purposes. By immersing itself in the urban flows, new agricultural actors appear in cities and its surrounded.
Guillaume Morel-Chevillet
doaj   +1 more source

Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Development and Volatile Flavor Substances Analysis of Purple Carrot Compound Fermented Beverage

open access: yesShipin gongye ke-ji
Using kale, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum and purple carrot as the main raw materials, and angel Lactobacillus as fermentation strains, the purple carrot compound fermented beverage was prepared.
Xinrui YUAN   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Haitian Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Aflatoxin‐Compliant Peanut Butter in the Informal Market

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Urban agriculture in Botswana

open access: yesCommonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2016
Botswana, a middle-income country, is experiencing a sluggish economic growth and a rapid urbanisation which has brought in its wake high unemployment, poverty and food insecurity.
Aloysius Clemence Mosha
doaj   +1 more source

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