"It's Not an 'If You Build It They Will Come' Type of Scenario": Stakeholder Perspectives on Farmers' Markets as a Policy Solution to Food Access in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-60

  Fang, Michelle ^a   Buttenheim, Alison M ^b   Havassy, Joshua ^a   Gollust, Sarah E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

farmers' markets; food access; food policy; low income

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; COST; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MARKET; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 84875286738     PISSN: 19320248     EISSN: 19320256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2012.758065     Document Type: Article

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