Public Markets & Community-Based Food Systems: Making Them Work in Lower-Income Neighborhoods

Contributing Organization(s): Project for Public Spaces


Author(s)/Creator(s): Project for Public Spaces

Publishing Date: 2003-11-01

Issue Areas: Economic Development; Poverty and Hunger; Race and Ethnicity

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A study examining the role farmers markets play in supporting local food systems and addressing food security.

The report provides case studies of three markets, information on the impacts these markets have on customers, vendors, community members, and sponsors, and resources related to the role markets have in local food systems, opportunties for the future, and GIS maps of the market trade areas.

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