Squaring farm security and food security in two types of alternative food institutions
Squaring farm security and food security in two types of alternative food institutions
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DOI：
10.1526/003601106781262034
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发表时间：
2006-12-01
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影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Allen, Patricia
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作者：
Guthman, Julie;Morris, Amy W.;Allen, Patricia
尽管最初发展农贸市场和社区支持农业都是为了为农民提供市场，但最近，这些以市场为基础的替代食品机构的粮食安全目标被赋予了，因为它们有可能成为小规模农民和低收入消费者的“双赢”经济解决方案。这篇文章报道了2004-2005年间在加利福尼亚州进行的调查和访谈研究，其目的是检查CSA和农贸市场在概念和实践方面在多大程度上解决了粮食安全问题。调查结果显示，这些机构的管理人员普遍支持提高其提供的食物的可负担性的想法，大多数人已经为此做出了努力，尽管这些努力因机构能力而异。尽管如此，一些人将他们支持粮食安全目标的兴趣与反补贴的担忧进行了对冲，比如首先需要支持农民。因此，具有讽刺意味的是，私营CSA和农贸市场实现某些粮食安全要素的方式是依靠公共粮食援助计划的支持。
Even though both farmers' markets and community supported agriculture were first developed to provide markets for farmers, recently the goals of food security have been attached to these market-based alternative food institutions, based on their potential to be "win-win" economic solutions for both small-scale farmers and low-income consumers. This article reports on survey and interview research conducted in California during 2004-2005 designed to examine to what extent CSAs and farmers' markets are addressing food security in both concept and practice. Findings show that managers of these institutions generally support the idea of improving the affordability of the food they provide, and most have made an effort to do so, although these efforts vary with institutional capacity. Still, some hedged their interest in supporting food security goals with countervailing concerns such as the need to support farmers first. It is ironic, then, that the way that private CSAs and farmers' markets achieve some elements of food security is by virtue of the support of public food assistance programs.