Completed Competitive Grant

Institutional and commercial food service buyers' perceptions of benefits and obstacles to purchase locally grown and processed foods

Project ID: 2001-38

Abstract

The three-phase project investigated several issues facing institutional and commercial food services related to purchasing of locally grown and processed food.

Lead investigator: Catherine Strohbehn, ISU Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management, et al

Year of grant completion: 2003

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Business management, distribution and marketing, Community-based food systems, Food miles, food pathways, food system assessments

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