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| Meeting the Demand for Local Food in West Virginia: An analysis of factors influencing producers' market participation and expansion decisions | |
| Oldham, Ruth Mary | |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 学位类型 | 硕士 |
| 导师 | Brown, Cheryl L. |
| 学位授予单位 | West Virginia University |
| 英文摘要 | Increasing demand in local food markets in WV offers a new or enhanced income generation opportunity to small producers. An ostensible gap in supply to meet this demand sparks an investigation of the factors that influence producers' decisions, as reflected by their behavior and intentions, to participate and expand in local food markets. The factors that influence both the behavior of current commercial producers and potential new entrants are identified through analysis of data collected through a survey of producers identified by field professionals. Specifically, the influence of motivational and place-based sociocultural characteristics, based on guidance from social psychology Theory of Planned Behavior, is examined within an economic framework of market participation and supply. Interest among non-commercial producers is identified and poses to be a plausible source of enhanced supply in local food markets in addition to expansion among current producers. Models of market participation behavior and supply response, using a probit model and OLS regression, indicated significant influence of motivational factors such as reasons for entering farming, influence of social context, and attitudes towards diversification of income to reduce risk. Probit model results indicate that past concerns such as time limitation and perceptions of lack of profitability limit intentions to participate in the market among current non-commercial producers, whereas past concerns about food safety and distance to market do not appear to limit those intentions. Probit model results of expansion intentions indicate the predominant influence of access to resources and farm-level factors as opposed to motivational factors on expansion. The importance of farm succession to sales volume and expansion intentions is salient. Interventions that will be successful at facilitating new entrants to market and expansion among current commercial producers must be tailored to producer values and sociocultural norms in addition to addressing resource barriers and skills. Specifically, facilitation of farm succession, implementation of marketing models that overcome distance to market and producer time and risk constraints, and education and technical assistance that is sensitive to sociocultural norms and values in general are potential leverage points. The analysis of market participation in addition to supply volume is determined to be an important aspect of analysis of supply response in local food markets in WV. |
| 英文关键词 | Expansion intentions Local food markets Market participation Producer decision-making Supply response Theory of planned behavior |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | United States |
| 来源学科分类 | Agricultural economics |
| URL | https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1491381222.html?FMT=AI |
| 来源机构 | West Virginia University |
| 资源类型 | 学位论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/247216 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Oldham, Ruth Mary. Meeting the Demand for Local Food in West Virginia: An analysis of factors influencing producers' market participation and expansion decisions[D]. West Virginia University,2013. |
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