Farmers’ Market Actors, Dynamics, and Attributes: A Bibliometric Study

Katia A. Figueroa-Rodríguez, María del Carmen Álvarez-Ávila, Fabiola Hernández Castillo, Rita Schwentesius Rindermann and Benjamín Figueroa-Sandoval
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Katia A. Figueroa-Rodríguez: Programa de Innovación Agroalimentaria Sustentable, Colegio de Postgraduados-Campus Córdoba, Veracruz 94953, Mexico
María del Carmen Álvarez-Ávila: Programa de Agroecosistemas Tropicales, Colegio de Postgraduados-Campus Veracruz, Veracruz 91700, Mexico
Fabiola Hernández Castillo: Programa de Agroecosistemas Tropicales, Colegio de Postgraduados-Campus Veracruz, Veracruz 91700, Mexico
Rita Schwentesius Rindermann: Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias para el Desarrollo Rural Integral (CIIDRI), Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Chapingo 56230, Mexico
Benjamín Figueroa-Sandoval: Programa de Innovación en el Manejo de Recursos Naturales, Colegio de Postgraduados-Campus San Luis, San Luis Potosí 78622, Mexico

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 3, 1-15

Abstract: Farmers’ markets aim to bring producers and consumers together under direct marketing schemes, also known as alternative food networks, for local and sustainable production and consumption of food. A number of studies concerning this subject have been published, however, as yet no updated reviews exist that might allow us to understand the trends in research on farmers’ markets. The objective of this study was to examine the farmers’ market literature using bibliometric tools. A total of 438 peer-reviewed publications, indexed in the abstract and citation meta-database Scopus (Elsevier®), for the period of 1979 to September 24, 2018, were considered. In the second phase, publications in the area of medicine were excluded, resulting in 295 publications being analyzed for the same period. The results showed that these publications focused on three main areas: markets, health programs, and food safety. Upon exclusion of the medical publications, the remaining works focused on farmers’ market actors, dynamics, and attributes: vendors (producers and others), consumers, the community, and supporting actors and institutions (government, NGOs, individuals). Therefore, it is concluded that there is no single type of farmers’ market, nor of farmers’ market vendors or consumers. This makes the reproduction of such spaces difficult, especially when the goals are to benefit local production systems or the nutrition of the local community.

Keywords: local production systems; consumers; vendors; community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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