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Analyzing The Foodshed: Toward A More Comprehensive Foodshed Analysis, Meara Butler
Analyzing The Foodshed: Toward A More Comprehensive Foodshed Analysis, Meara Butler
Geography Masters Research Papers
Foodshed Analysis is a tool used by researchers to measure the feasibility of providing more local food to a community. That there are economic, environmental, and societal benefits provided by eating locally produced food is a central assumption of Foodshed Analysis research. These benefits, however, are not inherent to a localized food system, but instead are goals that local food system participants must work to achieve. Foodshed Analysis may be a helpful tool that can be used to advise food system reform to the benefit of a community’s economy, environment, and society, but, in order for this tool to be …