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

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, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complementing urban agriculture and green spaces is important for ecosystem functions and biodiversity in cities: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
As cities expand, they encroach on agricultural land, impacting food production and natural habitats. While urban agriculture could help address these issues, the impact of increased food production on ecosystem functions—particularly with regards to ...
Zeyu Li, Sihao Chen, Tharaka S. Priyadarshana, Myung‐Bok Lee, Lingyun Xiao, Thomas B. Fischer, Xueqing He, Ben A. Woodcock, Emilio Pagani‐Núñez   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Kyiv (Ukraine): "Crisis Induced Strategy" versus Recreational Resource [PDF]

For the study 240 Kyiv households with urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) have been surveyed in 2005. Quotas were assigned to four different types of plots.
Komirenko, Z., Hoermann, D.M.
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Urban agriculture as a landscape approach for sustainable urban planning. An example of Songzhuang, Beijing

Frontiers in Sustainability
Cities serve as both political and economic hubs. Sustainable development has long been acknowledged as crucial to the well-being of the environment, people, and society.
Yu Huan, Steffen Nijhuis, Nico Tillie
doaj   +1 more source

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, Gréta Maró, Zsófia Jámbor, Zalán Márk Maró, Barbara Tocco, Péter Balogh, Péter Czine   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Agriculture Magazine no.15 - Multiple Functions of Urban Agriculture

, 2005
City authorities of growing cities have to cope with a diversity of needs of their citizens. Increasingly, they see the relation between agriculture in and immediately around cities and many urban issues.

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Exploring the Role of Urban Agriculture in Indonesia’s Socio-Economic and Environmental Landscape: A Systematic Literature Review

Jurnal Ilmu Lingkungan
In the domain of sustainability, urban agriculture is recognized as a key instrument for confronting critical global challenges including but not limited to food security, climate change, and environmental degradation.
Aji Saputra, Oekan Soekotjo Abdoellah, Gemilang Lara Utama, Yusep Suparman, Dede Mulyanto, Indri Wulandari   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The geography of urban agriculture: New trends and challenges

Moravian Geographical Reports, 2017
In the article, which is a theoretical and conceptual introduction for the Special Issue of Moravian Geographical Reports on ‘New trends and challenges of urban agriculture in the context of Europe’, the authors resume and review diverging issues of ...
Duží Barbora, Frantál Bohumil, Simon Rojo Marian   +2 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

Agribusiness, 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, Paul Martin Dontsop Nguezet, Shiferaw Feleke, Victor Manyong, Kamala Kaghoma Christian, Zoumana Bamba, Tahirou Abdoulaye   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

VertigO, 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, Joëlle Salomon Cavin   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source