Field Reports
Farmers’ Markets Fighting Hunger: Lessons from the Farmers’ Market and Community Food Consignment Program of the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona
Elaine Albertson,
Emerson Fellow
Published 2013
Tucson, Arizona
Farmers’ Markets Fighting Hunger: Lessons from the Farmers’ Market and Community Food Consignment Program of the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona discusses the role of farmers’ markets in food bank programming and anti-hunger work. The report gives special attention to the experiences of low-income customers and food producers at Community Food Bank markets in Tucson, AZ.
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Publication tags: Field Reports - Community Food Security, Emergency Food Network, Farmers' Markets, Farm Stands, and EBT, Food Banks, Food Systems and Agriculture
Elaine grew up in Woodinville, Washington, and graduated from Stanford University in 2012 with B.S. and M.S. degrees in interdisciplinary earth systems science. As an undergraduate she did national-level public opinion research with the Political Psychology Research Group, and through various projects helped map local food systems in both Hawaii and California. As a master’s student, she partnered with a South African nonprofit to conduct community-based research on urban farming knowledge systems. Elaine was the 2012 recipient of the William Whitley Citizen-Scholar Award.
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