DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2016, 8(3):185-201 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2016.030

The Criteria of Site Selection for Farmers' Markets

Dorottya Szabó
Institution: Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Address: 1093 Budapest, Zsil utca 3-5.

Keywords: short supply chain, farmers' market, site selection, multi-dimension method

Over the past few years the number of farmers' markets in Hungary has considerably grown what was induced both by the growing demand and the occurrence of facilitated authorization requirements. At the same time according both to international and Hungarian experience the dynamic increase in the number of farmers' markets has occurred together with a notably high closure rate.
Markets having characteristically small number of vendors, narrow variety of products, unsatisfactory organizing capacity and experience, as well as markets operating at an inadequate site were generally closed during the first four years.
The present study aims to describe a factor system relevant for the site selection of markets that was made measurable by the adaption of a multi dimension criteria system developed in the United States of America for domestic circumstances. The final aim is the development of a toolkit that can help in the evaluation by this in the comparison of the existing and potential markets sites in Hungary.

Published: October 31, 2016  Show citation

ACS AIP APA ASA Harvard Chicago Chicago Notes IEEE ISO690 MLA NLM Turabian Vancouver
Szabó, D. (2016). The Criteria of Site Selection for Farmers' Markets. DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism8(3), 185-201. doi: 10.32725/det.2016.030
Download citation

References

  1. Corum, V. (2009). Sylmar Farmers' Market Site Feasibility Report, Farmers' Markets America, November, 2009
  2. Jolly, D. (2005). Starting a new farmers market, The Farmers Market Management Series Volume 1, 2005 UC Small Farm Center
  3. Lohr, L., Diamond, A., Dicken, C., & Marquardt, D. (2011). Mapping Competition Zones for Vendors and Customers in U.S. Farmers Markets, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service. September 2011 Go to original source...
  4. Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (2009). Organizing & Maintaining Your Farmers Market, support from Chittenden Bank, the Windham Foundation, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets, and the State of Vermont Farm To Family Program, 2nd Edition, 2009
  5. Peters, M. J. (2008). Locating Farmers Markets: an evaluation methodology to inform site selection for farmers markets, Master of Urban Planning, University of Washington, Department of Urban Design and Planning, 2008
  6. SFC2014 Short supply chain thematic sub-programme, DRAFT, 2014
  7. Stephenson, G., Lev, L., & Brewer, L. (2008). When Things Don't Work: Some Insight Why Famers' Markets Close, Special Report Number 1073, Oregon State University Extension Service, Corvallis, OR.

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is properly cited. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.