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Regional Partnership for Sustainable Development
Consumer perceptions of the safety, health and environmental impact of various scales and geographic origin of food supply chains
Pirog, Larson
November 15, 2007
Rich Pirog
Associate Director and Marketing and Food Systems Program Leader
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Andy Larson
MBA Graduate Student, College of Business, Iowa State University
September 2007

http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/staff/consumer/consumer.htm

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Fast Food, Slow Food - How our food choices impact behavior
Maggie Ademak, University of Minnesota
February 17, 2006
This slideshow discusses the effects of sugar-infused food products on American children and families. It was presented to wellness committees from 26 schools in Northwest Minnesota on Feb 2, 2006.

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Finding Food in Farm Country – Northwest Minnesota
Ken Meter, Crossroads Resource Center
September 23, 2005
This series of slides, available as a pdf document, provides a regional view of the food and farm economy in Northwest Minnesota

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Marketplace Presentation
Linda Kingery; David DeMuth, Jr.; S. Andrew Sheppard
January 27, 2006
This presentation details the development of the LocalFoods website, beginning with the motivating factors and demonstrating various features of the site. Also includes hit statistics for 2005. Originally presented at the January 2006 Marketplace for Entrepreneurs in Fargo, ND.

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Policies and Models Concerning Farm to School Program
Sara Klawitter, student intern
September 23, 2005
Many schools that are currently involved in Farm-to-School programs rewrote their school lunch policies to encompass not only the food served to the children, but the nutrition education of the students, teachers, and parents. The policies consider everything from school meals to vending machines to the food served at after school events.

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RKing_Consumer_Attitudes_about_LocalFoods_4-2-07
Robert King
April 08, 2007
A talk by R. King (UMN, Dept. Applied Economics) on research that is in progress on Consumer Attitudes about Local Foods, given at the Morris campus on April 2, 2007 at the "Home Grown Economy: Foods from Local Farms as an Economic Development Tool."

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