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Characterizing alternative food networks in China

Agriculture and Human Values, 2014
Amid the many food safety scandals that have erupted in recent years, Chinese food activists and consumers are turning to the creation of alternative food networks (AFNs) to ensure better control over their food. These Chinese AFNs have not been documented in the growing literature on food studies.
Zhenzhong Si   +2 more
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Adult Learning in Alternative Food Networks

New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
This chapter describes the role small‐scale organic farmers are playing as adult educators in alternative food networks and as leaders for food systems transformation. Findings are drawn from a survey of organic farmers in British Columbia, Western Canada.
Catherine Etmanski   +1 more
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Beyond Alternative Food Networks

2013
Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer's markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di ...
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Fairness and Alternative Food Networks in Italy

2017
A fairer and sustainable distribution of added value and information along the food supply chain is becoming a relevant issue. Extensive literature has analyzed the development of distributions models, commonly called Alternative Food Networks (AFNs), that short-circuit the long, complex and rationally organized industrial chain, emphasizing their ...
MARIANI, Angela, VASTOLA A. P.
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Alternative food networks: knowledge, place and politics

Journal of Peasant Studies, 2013
From the back roads of Britain to downtown Detroit, the food movement in the global North has made some significant if still marginal changes in the way food is grown and imagined by consumers.
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