Novel methods for an interesting time: Exploring U.S. local food systems’ impacts and initiatives to respond to COVID

The COVID‐19 pandemic and associated public health and social distancing mandates caused unprecedented shifts and disruptions for local and regional food systems (LRFS). The pandemic also brought new and heightened attention to the structure and resiliency of US food systems, and LRFS appeared to be...

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Published inThe Australian journal of agricultural and resource economics Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 848 - 877
Main Authors Thilmany, Dawn, Brislen, Lilian, Edmondson, Hailey, Gill, Mackenzie, Jablonski, Becca B. R., Rossi, Jairus, Woods, Tim, Schaffstall, Samantha
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2021
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects
Agricultural marketing
Agriculture
Applied research
consumer demand
Consumer surveys
COVID-19
direct‐to‐consumer markets
Disease control
e‐commerce
Food
food policy
Healthy food
Innovations
local and regional food systems
Local food systems
Marketing
Pandemics
Polls & surveys
Public health
Resilience
Special Issue
Special Issue ‐ Disaster, Disruption, Recovery and Resilience
Supply
Supply chains
Teams
Technical assistance
Traditional foods
United States > US
consumer demand
food policy
COVID‐19
local and regional food systems
direct‐to‐consumer markets
e‐commerce
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Summary:The COVID‐19 pandemic and associated public health and social distancing mandates caused unprecedented shifts and disruptions for local and regional food systems (LRFS). The pandemic also brought new and heightened attention to the structure and resiliency of US food systems, and LRFS appeared to be positioned to significantly increase the scope and scale of their market reach as a result. Researchers from three universities collaborated with staff from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service to recruit leaders from sixteen key coalitions within the U.S. LRFS sector to frame an adaptive, community‐driven set of applied research activities to understand important themes, learn from effective responses and gain insights into how local and regional supply chains may change post‐pandemic. In this paper, we summarise urgent and emergent strategies and innovations from LRFS captured in a fall 2020 consumer survey, with additional insights on how the survey was framed and interpreted, considering synthesis of collaborative discussions and project team interactions. We conclude the article with a set of research, policy and technical assistance priorities that were identified and validated by this LRFS network.
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Dawn Thilmany (email: dawn.thilmany@colostate.edu) is a Professor, Lilian Brislen is a Assistant Professor, Hailey Edmondson is a Graduate Research Assistant, Mackenzie Gill is a Graduate Research Assistant and Becca B. R. Jablonski is a Associate Professor are with the Department of Ag and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, B310 Clark, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523‐1172, USA; Jairus Rossi is a Research Assistant Professor and Tim Woods is a Professor at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA; Samantha Schaffstall is a Agricultural Marketing Specialist at the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Portland, OR.
The authors wish to acknowledge the valuable input from the Local and Regional Food System Response to COVID project team the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service and the Colorado Ag Experiment Station for financial support for this project.
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ISSN:1364-985X
1467-8489
DOI:10.1111/1467-8489.12456