Local Food Systems - Concepts, Impacts, and Issues - Bog - Paperback

Local Food Systems - Concepts, Impacts, and Issues

This comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and producers, and examines early indications of the economic and health impacts of local food systems. There is no consensus on a definition of \local\ or \local food systems\ in terms of the geographic distance between production and consumption. But defining \local\ based on marketing arrangements, such as farmers..