Farmers' markets as keystones in rebuilding local and regional food systems

Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 65-83

  Gillespie, Gilbert ^a   Hilchey, Duncan L ^a   Hinrichs, C Clare ^b   Feenstra, Gail ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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