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  Rural Connections-Networks, Food Hubs, and Rural Wealth Creation


Category:  Community Development
Publication ( 737.42 KB )
Language: English
Author(s): Richard Pirog ; Corry Bregendahl
Published: May 2012
Description: "The local food movement has come a long way in the past 20 years, from the first community supported agriculture enterprises and sales of local food to schools, hospitals, and restaurants to a national awareness of local food as more than just a 'fashionable trend.' Across the country local food commerce has evolved from better connections between farms and consumers to a strategy for building local urban and rural economies and national food security."