scholarly journals Growing pains in local food systems: a longitudinal social network analysis on local food marketing in Baltimore County, Maryland and Chester County, Pennsylvania

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Brinkley ◽  
Gwyneth M. Manser ◽  
Sasha Pesci
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Local Food Systems ◽  
Farmers Markets ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Baltimore County ◽  
Chester County

AbstractLocal food systems are growing, and little is known about how the constellation of farms and markets change over time. We trace the evolution of two local food systems (Baltimore County, Maryland and Chester County, Pennsylvania) over six years, including a dataset of over 2690 market connections (edges) between 1520 locations (nodes). Longitudinal social network analysis reveals how the architecture, actor network centrality, magnitude, and spatiality of these supply chains shifted during the 2012–2018 time period. Our findings demonstrate that, despite growth in the number of farmers’ markets, grocery stores, farms and restaurants in both counties, each local food system also experienced high turnover rates. Over 80% of the market connections changed during the study period. Farms, farmers’ markets, and grocery stores showed a 40–50% ‘survival’ rate, indicating their role in sustaining local food systems over longer time periods. Other actors, such as restaurants, had a much higher turnover rate within the network. Both food systems became more close-knit and consolidated as the center of gravity for both local food systems pulled away from urban areas toward rural farmland. Evidence of both growth and decay within local food systems provides a new understanding of the social networks behind local food markets.

scholarly journals Measuring segregation between rural migrants and local residents in urban China: An integrated spatio-social network analysis of Kecun in Guangzhou

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miaoxi Zhao ◽  
Yiming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Anglo American

In this paper, we demonstrate an integrated spatio-social network analysis to measure the degree of segregation within a Chinese urban neighborhood in terms of the everyday activities by rural migrants and local urban residents at such routine venues as restaurants, grocery stores, barber shops, etc. Our data were collected in May 2014, through an integrated geographical and social survey conducted within an inner-city neighborhood around Kecun in south China’s Guangzhou Municipality. Although Kecun features a highly condensed and mixed dwelling pattern between the rural migrants and indigenous urban population, we find that within our sample of 110 local and 132 migrant residents, the former tend to socialize more inwardly with their peer locals and visit neighborhood amenities more often such as pubs, stadia, and public kindergartens. In contrast, the migrants tend to attend local roadside food stalls, outdoor recreation facilities, small clinic shops, grocery malls, and private ( minban) kindergartens more often. Overall, only a modest degree of social interaction between the locals and migrants appears to exist in Kecun. On top of the methodological implications of our study, we argue that urban segregation in China is both socially and spatially different from its Anglo-American counterpart. More empirical research is needed to understand and assess social segregation underlying the everyday urban life in Chinese cities.

scholarly journals Legal Instruments to Support Local Food Systems in Italian Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Anna Kapała
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Local Food Systems ◽  
Farmers Markets ◽  
Direct Sales ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
Many Instruments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Final Consumer

AbstractThe purpose of the discussion is an attempt to determine in what forms, which meet the criteria of local food systems (LFS), it is possible under Italian law to sell agri-food products by the farmer who is their producer. These forms imply a direct sale, or with the participation of at most one intermediary, to the final consumer, in close geographical distance between the place of production and sale. The analysis showed that Italian legislator, national and regional, provides for many instruments that are crucial in creating LFS, such as direct sales of agri-food products, farmers’ markets reserved only for the local farmers; the sale of meals consisting of the farmer’s products at the agritourism; wine routes; regional designation “products from zero kilometres”, emphasizing the geographical proximity between the place of manufacture and the place of sale; as well as a support for the social initiatives such as Solidarity Purchasing Groups.

scholarly journals Social networks and farming resilience

2021 ◽  
pp. 003072702098481
Author(s):  
Ann Bruce ◽  
Cornell Jackson ◽  
Chrysa Lamprinopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Face

The resilience of food systems, including agricultural systems, has become a high profile issue in the face multiple disease, environmental and social challenges. Much of agriculture takes place in remote locations where social networks, or connections between individual actors, have been implicated in increasing resilience. We examine a case study of Orkney, Scotland, a remote rural location, using interviews and Social Network Analysis. This case study provides evidence indicative of resilient patterns of social networks, emphasising the importance of schools, transport links and livestock markets in creating and maintaining these networks. These domains are rarely included in agricultural policy, highlighting the need for wider framing of questions. Our research suggests Social Network Analysis is a fruitful avenue for investigating resilience of agricultural systems that can identify hitherto hidden elements.

scholarly journals Sprzedaż wina w ramach lokalnych systemów żywnościowych na przykładzie prawa włoskiego

2020 ◽  
pp. 203-214
Author(s):  
Anna Kapała
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Local Food Systems ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Farmers Markets ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Special Instrument ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Italian Law

The purpose of the considerations is to determine in what forms under Italian law wine producers-farmers may sell wine directly to consumers it it meets the criteria of local food systems. In this respect, the regulations on direct sales, so-called “wine routes,” agro-tourism, and farmers’ markets, as well as the “agricultural products from zero kilometres” indications have been analysed. It has been established that Italian laws allow selling wine in all the forms of the short supply chains analysed in the study. Legal provisions in this respect govern farmers and the agricultural products they produce, both unprocessed and processed, including wine. What is more, there is a special instrument created to support the sale of wine in short supply chains – “wine routes” while the Law on Agritourism explicitly allows the serving of wine produced on a given farm. All these represent a form of implementing the idea of local food systems where the conditions such as close proximity between the place of production and the place of sale, direct or close social relationship between the producer and the consumer, the lack of intermediaries or the participation of only one intermediary, are satisfied.

Niagara region farmers' markets: local food systems and sustainability considerations

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Feagan ◽  
David Morris ◽  
Karen Krug
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Local Food Systems ◽  
Farmers Markets
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