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Publications: Rural Economic Studies

Articles

PDF Icon How Local Economic Analysis Can Help Focus Community Engagement and how one local foods campaign used Crossroads’ analysis (2006).

PDF Icon Finding Food in Farm Country, the groundbreaking study, by Ken Meter and Jon Rosales (2001).

PDF Icon Ken Meter’s testimony before the Senate Agriculture Committee presenting the results of Finding Food in Farm Country (Stewartville, Minnesota, 2001).

“Finding Food in Farm Country” Presentations

PDF Icon Economic Realities of the Region. Ken Meter’s 2007 PowerPoint presentation at Rep. Collin Peterson’s annual forum, “The Home Grown Economy,” incorporating results from “Finding Food in Farm Country” studies.

PDF Icon Growth in Local Food Economies. Ken’s PowerPoint presentation at the 2008 “The Home Grown Economy,” forum, focussing on successful local foods initiatives around the U.S.

Reports

PDF Icon Economies of Size Considerations for Hiawatha Fund . By Ken Meter for the University of Minnesota—Experiment in Rural Cooperation, Southeast Minnesota Sustainable Finance Initiative (2004). Economies of size are not always as large as is commonly believed.

PDF Icon Historical Review of Research Covering Economies of Size . By Ken Meter for the University of Minnesota—Experiment in Rural Cooperation, Southeast Minnesota Sustainable Finance Initiative (2004).

Finding Food in Farm Country

Local Farm & Food Economy Studies. Comprehensive listing of studies.