Understanding Farmers Market Worlds
This collection includes briefs, reports, webinars, and comics resulting from a pair of social science research studies that investigated how farmers market management and organizational strategies vary--and what this variance means for the experiences of vendors, managers, and customers. Funded through a USDA Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SSARE) grant and two cooperative research agreements with the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), the results of these mixed methods studies can help people who care about our food system, including farmers market managers, local food organization practitioners, enthusiastic eaters, and students, learn more about the complex interplay between market governance approaches and food system outcomes. These projects were led by PI Hilary King in the Master's of Development Practice Program at Emory University and Co-PI Andrea Rissing in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University.
