Sustaining local agriculture: Barriers and opportunities to direct marketing between farms and restaurants in Colorado

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 301-321

  Starr, Amory ^a   Card, Adrian ^b   Benepe, Carolyn ^a   Auld, Garry ^a   Lamm, Dennis ^a   Smith, Ken ^a   Wilken, Karen ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct marketing; Foodshed; Local economies; Localization; Shortening food links; Small farms; Sustainable agriculture; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344601864     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026169122326     Document Type: Article

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