Farmers Markets Contribution to Community Development

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Farmers Markets Contribution to Community
Development

• Duncan Hilchey
• Community, Food, and Agriculture Program
• Department of Development Sociology
• Cornell University

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New York FM Facts
80 accept Senior Coupons 99 accept WIC
Coupons
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Farmers Markets in NYCounty Rank and Index
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Community Impacts of Farmers Markets

• Economic
• Incubation function
• Downtown revitalization
• Social
• Builds community
• Education
• Improved nutrition
• Environmental
• Support organic farms
• Preserve open space

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Three-StateFarmers Market Study
0 no improvement 1 a little improvement 2
some improvement 3 much improvement 4 very
much improvement
On a Scale of 0 to 4 rate the level of
improvement you experienced in your farmers
market.
Gillespie, G. and D. Hilchey. 2002. CFAP
Research Snippet. CFAP News, 10(4) Fall 2002.
Conclusion FMs are a low-cost, low-risk way to
develop or expand a new microenterprise.
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Ways Extension and other AgDev Professionals Can
Help

• Financing (CDBG, Stock)
• Location/Re-Location
• Education and Training
• Facilities and Org. Development
• Regulatory Assistance
• Public Relations

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FM Development Opps
Syracuse Area, Onondaga County
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Farmers Markets and Community Development
Articles and Publications

• Feenstra, G., C. Heinrich, G. Gillespie, D.
  Hilchey. 2003. Entrepreneurial Outcomes and
  Enterprise Size in U.S. Retail Farmers Markets.
  American Journal of Alternative Agriculture,
  Washington State University. 18(1).
• Hilchey, D., T.A. Lyson, G.W. Gillespie. 1995.
  Farmers Markets and Local Economic Development
  Entrepreneurship, Small Business Incubation and
  Job Creation in the Rural Northeast. Farming
  Alternatives Program Community Agriculture
  Development Bulletin Series.
• Lyson, T.A, G.W. Gillespie, D. Hilchey. 1995.
  Farmers Markets and the Local Community
  Bridging the Formal and Informal Economy.
  American Journal of Alternative Agriculture.
  10(3) 108113.
• Green, J. and D. Hilchey. 2002. Growing Home A
  Guide to Reconnecting Agriculture, Food and
  Communities. Community, Food, and Agriculture
  Program, Department of Rural Sociology. Cornell
  University.

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CFAP

• DUNCAN HILCHEY
• dlh3_at_cornell.edu
• 607/255-4413

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