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Agricultural and Food System Development at the Rural-urban Interface

Julia Allison Barton

出版	Ohio State University, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jat7AQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The community development literature indicates that a certain degree of organization enables communities to engage in self-development. However, agricultural economic development and food system literature does not clearly illustrate how community organization impacts various forms of agricultural economic development activities in communities. This study explores two questions: 1) Do communities with greater agricultural social infrastructure at the rural-urban interface engage in more agricultural and food system-related development activities than those communities with less social infrastructure, and 2) Do communities with greater agricultural social infrastructure at the rural-urban interface engage more in agricultural and food system-related self-development activities, compared to extra-local development strategies? I anticipate that social organization, or social infrastructure, within a community will be related to the presence of agricultural and food system-related development activities. Further, I anticipate that greater social organization within a community will be related to the presence of agricultural and food system self-development versus extra-local development activities. I anticipate that social infrastructure, as characterized by broad and diverse community input, the flow of shared agricultural information, and agricultural leadership, will be positively associated with a community's capacity to engage in development around agriculture and the food system. This research helps identify ways in which communities at the rural-urban interface may organize to support local agricultural economic development despite the current economic downturn and pressures of growing urbanization and globalization. This study finds that communities with social infrastructure do engage in more agricultural and food system-related development activities than those communities with less social infrastructure. It also shows that greater social infrastructure in rural-urban interface communities is significantly and positively related to high levels of engagement in both self-development and extra-local development activities related to food and agriculture.