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“Food Village”: An Innovative Alternative Food Network Based on Human Scale Development Economic Model [PDF]
Foods, 2022 Although the different alternative food networks (AFNs) have experienced increases worldwide for the last thirty years, they are still unable to provide an alternative capable of spreading on a large scale.
Giordano Stella +5 more
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Food waste in an alternative food network – A case-study
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2019 This paper investigates food waste dynamics in a retail alternative food network (AFN). We provide a first contribution to assess food waste in an AFN in terms of 1) food waste levels, 2) food waste causes, and 3) food waste management practices (i.e. food waste reduction and handling).
Jakub Rok +2 more
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The Small World of the Alternative Food Network [PDF]
Sustainability, 2018 This research offers the first use of graph theory mathematics in social network analysis to explore relationships built through an alternative food network. The local food system is visualized using geo-social data from 110 farms and 224 markets around Baltimore County, Maryland, with 699 connections between them.
Catherine Brinkley
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Fun, community, and culture in a Japanese alternative food network
Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsIntroductionAlternative Food Networks (AFNs) are important sources of community-driven sustainable food production and consumption. It is apparent that despite the existing environmentally friendly ways of producing food, such networks are not yet ...
Jasmine E. Black, Jasmine E. Black
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2022 This study compared the structural characteristics of the geography and pedagogy of food for young people, which is represented in geography textbooks used by the IBDP and Korean world geography.
Chul-Ki Cho
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Étudier les circuits courts par les traces numériques de leurs réseaux
EchoGéo, 2022 Digital platforms and digital traces which reconfigure local and Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) provide important possibilities for the structural analysis of their networks.
Raphaël Stephens
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Belgeo, 2021 Our empirical study is based on the qualitative analysis of a Collective of cooperatives engaged in proximity-based food systems in Belgium. By comparing the territorial strategies of three member-cooperatives, we underline the diversity of spatial and ...
Florence Lanzi +2 more
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Growing in relation with the land
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2023 The food landscape of Calgary, Canada, is sown with an abundance of polycultures. Alongside place-specific Indigenous foodways are food rescue, banking, and hamper programs, food studies scholars, a City of Calgary food resilience plan, and a growing ...
Chelsea Rozanski, Michael Gavin
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 Alternative Food Networks (AFN) is a concept that has emerged in opposition to conventional food systems and the global food regime. AFN are localized food networks that connect actors from food producers to consumers creating a pathway that strengthens ...
Rachael Maysels +3 more
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Green Agendas and White Markets: The Coloniality of Agroecology in Senegal
Land, 2023 Development actors in West Africa have been promoting agroecological farming as a solution to combat climate change and to create more sovereign food systems that enhance the autonomy of local smallholders.
Franziska Marfurt +2 more
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