IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/joafsc/359564.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Regional Economics–Based Research Agenda for Local Food Systems

Author

Listed:
  • Boys, Kathryn A.
  • Hughes, David W.

Abstract

The purported benefits of local food systems (LFSs) are extensive and diverse. While a growing general literature has considered various aspects of these systems, this set of issues has not been broadly considered from the perspective of regional economics — a field that is uniquely suited to assess local food systems and the policies that affect them. This commentary attempts to narrow this gap. Research topics are considered that would allow for improved examination of the extent to which LFS directly and indirectly engender local economic growth. Also incorporated are research ideas concerning how to determine the distribution of benefits (socially, across income class, and geographically). In this regard, suggestions are also made concerning how to remove some of the limitations found in current analytical approaches.

Suggested Citation

  • Boys, Kathryn A. & Hughes, David W., 2013. "A Regional Economics–Based Research Agenda for Local Food Systems," Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, Center for Transformative Action, Cornell University, vol. 3(4).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:joafsc:359564
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/359564/files/199.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. repec:cup:jagaec:v:40:y:2008:i:1:p:253-265_5 is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Hughes, David W. & Brown, Cheryl & Miller, Stacy & McConnell, Tom, 2008. "Evaluating the Economic Impact of Farmers' Markets Using an Opportunity Cost Framework," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 40(1), pages 253-265, April.
    3. Gale, Fred, 1997. "Direct Farm Marketing as a Rural Development Tool," Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 12(2), February.
    4. Julian M. Alston & John W. Freebairn & Jennifer S. James, 2001. "Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Advertising: Theory and Application to Generic Commodity Promotion Programs," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 83(4), pages 888-902.
    5. Dawn Thilmany & Nicole McKenney & David Mushinski & Stephan Weiler, 2005. "Beggar-thy-neighbor economic development: A note on the effect of geographic interdependencies in rural retail markets," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 39(3), pages 593-605, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Onyango, Benjamin & Govindasamy, Ramu, 2013. "Uncovering Success Attributes for the Direct Farmers Markets and Agritourism: Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States," Journal of Food Distribution Research, Food Distribution Research Society, vol. 44(01), March.
    2. Jablonski, B.B.R. & Schmit, T.M. & Kay, D., 2015. "Assessing the Economic Impacts of Food Hubs to Regional Economies: a framework including opportunity cost," Working Papers 250012, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management.
    3. Phillip Warsaw & Steven Archambault & Arden He & Stacy Miller, 2021. "The Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of Farmers Markets: Recent Evidence from the US," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-18, March.
    4. Julian M. Alston & John W. Freebairn & Jennifer S. James, 2003. "Distributional issues in check-off funded programs," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 19(3), pages 277-287.
    5. Henry Kinnucan & Øystein Myrland, 2008. "On generic vs. brand promotion of farm products in foreign markets," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(6), pages 673-684.
    6. Jeffrey K. O'Hara & Nony Dutton & Nick Stavely, 2022. "The influence of farmers markets' characteristics on vendor sales," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 38(2), pages 295-311, April.
    7. Watson, Philip & Cooke, Stephen & Kay, David & Alward, Greg & Morales, Alfonso, . "A Method for Evaluating the Economic Contribution of a Local Food System," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 42(2).
    8. Metin Cakir & Joseph V. Balagtas, 2010. "Econometric evidence of cross-market effects of generic dairy advertising," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(1), pages 83-99.
    9. Carlos E. Carpio & Olga Isengildina-Massa, 2009. "Consumer willingness to pay for locally grown products: the case of South Carolina," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 25(3), pages 412-426.
    10. Loughrey, Jason & O’Donoghue, Cathal & Meredith, David & Murphy, Ger & Shanahan, Ultan & Miller, Corina, "undated". "The Local Impact of Cattle Farming," 166th Seminar, August 30-31, 2018, Galway, West of Ireland 276231, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    11. Murakami, Tomoaki & Nakajima, Shinsaku & Takahashi, Taro & Nishihara, Yukinaga & Imai, Asako & Kikushima, Ryousuke & Sato, Takeshi, "undated". "Spatially Varying Impacts of Farmers Markets on Agricultural Land Use," 2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota 170668, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    12. Thilmany, Dawn & Tegegne, Eyosiyas & Hines, Brett, 2012. "Farmers Markets and Direct Marketing in the Western US: Market Trends and Linkages with Food System Issues," Western Economics Forum, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 11(2), pages 1-9.
    13. Dudensing, Rebekka & Guerrero, Bridget & Amosson, Steve, 2019. "Evaluating the Accuracy of Regional Economic Impact Estimates: Considering a 2013 Beef Plant Closure in Texas," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, vol. 49(01), May.
    14. Coisnon, Thomas & Oueslati, Walid & Salanié, Julien, 2014. "Urban sprawl occurrence under spatially varying agricultural amenities," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 38-49.
    15. Shideler, Dave & Watson, Philip, 2019. "Making Change through Local Food Production: Calculating the Economic Impact of Your Local Food Project," Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, Center for Transformative Action, Cornell University, vol. 8(C).
    16. Craig W. Carpenter & Anders Van Sandt & Rebekka Dudensing & Scott Loveridge, 2022. "Profit Pools and Determinants of Potential County-Level Manufacturing Growth," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 45(2), pages 188-224, March.
    17. Hughes, David W. & Brown, Cheryl & Miller, Stacy & McConnell, Tom, 2008. "Evaluating the Economic Impact of Farmers’ Markets Using an Opportunity Cost Framework," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 40(01), pages 1-13, April.
    18. repec:ebl:ecbull:v:13:y:2007:i:3:p:1-14 is not listed on IDEAS
    19. Randall Akee & Elton Mykerezi & Richard M. Todd, 2017. "Reservation Employer Establishments: Data from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Database," Working Papers 17-57, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    20. Enthoven, Laura & Van den Broeck, Goedele, 2021. "Local food systems: Reviewing two decades of research," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 193(C).
    21. Requena-Silvente, Francisco & Walker, James, 2007. "Investigating sales and advertising rivalry in the UK multipurpose vehicle market (1995-2002)," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 59(2), pages 163-180.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:joafsc:359564. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.