IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/vrs/eurcou/v15y2023i1p18-33n4.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Farm-to-School Programs in Portuguese Low-Density Rural Areas: How to Engage Farmers

Author

Listed:
  • Dinis Isabel

    (1 Polytechnic of Coimbra, Coimbra Agriculture School, Research Centre for Natural Resources, Environment and Society, Coimbra, Portugal)

  • Guilherme Rosa

    (2 Direção Regional de Agricultura e Pescas do Centro, Research Centre for Natural Resources, Environment and Society Coimbra, Portugal)

Abstract

Farm to School (FTS) programs is a type of Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) that generate new economic opportunities for farmers while enhancing communities’ food security strategies, by improving the access to a safe, nutritious, and culturally acceptable diet, through a sustainable food system that maximizes self-reliance and social justice. However, the success of FTS is highly dependent on regional characteristics, and its implementation must deal with diverse views and opposing interests. In particular, farmers' willingness to engage in FTS may be affected by the need to adapt their practices to the demand of school canteens. The estimate of a logistic model is used in this study to analyse the factors that impact farmers' motivation to participate in FTS in low-density areas of Portugal, showing that market-oriented vegetable and fruit producers, living further away from the city are more likely to join FTS.

Suggested Citation

  • Dinis Isabel & Guilherme Rosa, 2023. "Farm-to-School Programs in Portuguese Low-Density Rural Areas: How to Engage Farmers," European Countryside, Sciendo, vol. 15(1), pages 18-33, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:eurcou:v:15:y:2023:i:1:p:18-33:n:4
    DOI: 10.2478/euco-2023-0002
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2023-0002
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2478/euco-2023-0002?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    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:vrs:eurcou:v:15:y:2023:i:1:p:18-33:n:4. 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.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using 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: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.sciendo.com .

    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.