Finding Local Resources: A Network Analysis and Knowledge Map of the Agricultural Sector in Alamance County, NC
Abstract
Benevolence Farm is a non-profit organization opening a local farm in rural Alamance
County, NC that will house and provide career training for women as they transition
out of prison. As they enter this new community, they will encounter challenges to
finding and accessing local resources - including retail, employment, and local knowledge.
For this project, we interviewed 20 local community members to identify and map local
agricultural resources. Qualitative and social network analyses identified persistent
challenges for the area’s local farms, including marketing, communication, and leveraging
local knowledge. We recommended several steps for marketing goods at local retail
and wholesale outlets. We identified key individuals the Farm should begin building
immediate relationships with in order to access their social capital and local knowledge.
We developed a web-based knowledge map to display the location of agricultural resources.
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Master's projectSubject
agriculturefarmers markets
local food systems
social network analysis
knowledge map
qualitative data analysis
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Hansen, Eric; & Overton, Sara (2014). Finding Local Resources: A Network Analysis and Knowledge Map of the Agricultural
Sector in Alamance County, NC. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/8578.Collections
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