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AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES
卷 22, 期 4, 页码 451-464出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-005-3401-0
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foodsheds; local food systems; organic farming; sustainability; Washington State
In an increasingly globalized food economy, local agri-food initiatives are promoted as more sustainable alternatives, both for small-scale producers and ecologically conscious consumers. However, revitalizing local agri-food communities in rural agro-industrial regions is particularly challenging. This case study examines Grant and Chelan Counties, two industrial farming regions in rural Central Washington State, distant from the urban fringe. Farmers in these counties have tried diversifying large-scale processing into organics and marketing niche and organic produce at popular farmers markets in Seattle about 200 miles away. Such strategies invoke the question, How are 'local' agri-food networks socially and geographically defined? The meaning of what constitutes local and/or sustainable systems merits consideration in the linking of these rural counties with distant urban farmers markets. Employing historical, in-depth interview and survey research, we analyze production and consumption networks and the non-market systems that residents in these counties access for self-provisioning and food security.
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