Long-Time Assessment of the Organic Farmer’s Market in Granada (Spain)

Francisco Javier Peña Rodríguez (), Alberto Matarán Ruiz (), Adolfo José Torres Rodríguez, César Eduardo de la Cruz Abarca, Josefa Sánchez Contreras, Alba Ruiz Díez, Sergio Visquert Bruguera and Juan Carlos Morilla Moreno
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Francisco Javier Peña Rodríguez: Department of Sociology, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Alberto Matarán Ruiz: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Adolfo José Torres Rodríguez: Department of Sociology, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
César Eduardo de la Cruz Abarca: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Josefa Sánchez Contreras: Department of Sociology, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Alba Ruiz Díez: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Sergio Visquert Bruguera: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Juan Carlos Morilla Moreno: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 10, 1-22

Abstract: In recent years the world has seen an increase in the popularity of farmer’s markets, short food supply chains and local food systems. This growth can be attributed to the public’s growing consciousness of the impracticality of the global food system, globalization’s waste of fossil fuels, the fear of food chemicals, and small farmers’ desire to directly sell their products, among other things. Although there are a wealth of farmer’s market surveys and research on this topic that has been conducted over the past decades around the world, scant data have been collected about farmer’s markets in the south of Spain. This study focuses on the organic farmer’s market in Granada (Spain) and consists of five surveys developed in 8 years which are analyzed to help better understand this market that was first established in the Spring of 2013. It will also consider research on farmer’s markets in Europe and beyond in order to compare the situation of the Granada market as well as bringing in some new ideas of how it can be improved.

Keywords: farmer’s market; organic food; consumers; southern Spain; Granada (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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