Embeddedness and local food systems: notes on two types of direct agricultural market

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A comparison is presented between two direct agricultural markets, the farmers' market and a community supported agricultural system. While farmers' markets establish close ties between farmers and consumers, a community supported system reduces the importance of commodity in food supply exchanges.

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Embeddedness, the new food economy and defensive localism

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The embeddedness and the turn to quality in agro-food research are examined. The notion of embeddedness requires scrutiny and the implications of the turn to quality for the geography of agriculture may not be radical.

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The geography of Washington's world apple: global expressions in a local landscape

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The authors discuss the ways in which the internationization of farming and farm labor has changed the landscape of the State of Washington's fresh apple industry growing area.

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