Local Motivations, Regional Implications: Scaling from Local to Regional Food Systems in Northeastern North Carolina
| Autor: | Sophie Kelmenson, Gabriel Cumming, Carla Norwood |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Economic growth
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Stakeholder engagement lcsh:Recreation. Leisure lcsh:TX341-641 02 engineering and technology lcsh:GV1-1860 lcsh:Home economics lcsh:Regional planning 01 natural sciences lcsh:Technology lcsh:Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology lcsh:Agriculture lcsh:Social Sciences Grassroots Regional Food Systems Regional Planning lcsh:HT51-1595 Political science Regional planning Rural lcsh:HT101-395 lcsh:Human ecology. Anthropogeography lcsh:Environmental sciences 0105 earth and related environmental sciences lcsh:GE1-350 lcsh:T lcsh:S lcsh:Geography. Anthropology. Recreation lcsh:HT390-395 021107 urban & regional planning Local Food Systems Scale lcsh:H Social Networks lcsh:G Press release Scale (social sciences) Food systems lcsh:Communities. Classes. Races lcsh:GF1-900 lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply lcsh:TX1-1110 |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2152-0801 |
| Popis: | In communities across North America, organizations have launched local food system initiatives as a response to the depredations of the globalized agri-food economy; however, they increasingly find that they cannot achieve their desired impacts or sustain their ventures by operating solely within their home communities. Consequently, they embark on regional food system development initiatives. Drawing upon the experiences of 41 organizations—including Working Landscapes, a grassroots nonprofit that two authors of this paper direct—this paper examines emerging regional food initiatives in the rural, economically distressed region of northeastern North Carolina. We elucidate characteristics that differentiate regional initiatives from the same organizations’ local activities. We find that regional initiatives are motivated by organizations’ strategic needs, which are highly variable in spatial scale, largely uncoordinated with each other, and not yet successful in fully achieving their goals. Drawing upon this analysis, we identify opportunities to increase the effectiveness of regional food system initiatives by increasing shared understandings of these initiatives and advancing region-scale planning. See the press release for this article. |
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