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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).
Ana Poças Ribeiro +4 more
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Box-scheme as alternative food network—the economic integration between consumers and producers
Agricultural and Food Economics, 2020 As a growing option for small farmers, alternative food networks (AFN) have attracted the attention of researchers around the world. Nevertheless, not much focus is given to box-schemes as a format itself.
Ronaldo Tavares de Souza
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Improving the capacity of local food network through local food hubs’ development
Open Agriculture, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic and humanitarian challenges such as war and conflict, climate changes, and economic crises bring unexpected humanitarian challenges, such as food insecurity. Especially for developing countries, this is a double crisis, food poverty
Perdana Tomy +4 more
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Connecting Small-Scale Producers and Consumers
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2020 Sustainable agriculture and community food security (CFS) are frameworks commonly used, but often separately, within the broader alternative food movement.
Michelle Kaiser +3 more
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Alternative Food Networks in Quebec
Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, 2017 This commentary reflects on a two-day conference, Réseaux alimentaires alternatifs au Québec. Perspectives comparatives, held in Montreal on May 12 & 13, 2016, during the 84th Congress of ACFAS (Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences).
Manon Boulianne, Patrick Mundler
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Researching European ‘alternative’ food networks: some methodological considerations [PDF]
Area, 2006 Recent European literature on ‘alternative’ food networks (AFNs) draws heavily upon an apparently accessible and diverse body of non‐conventional food networks in the agro‐food sector and whilst researchers frequently refer to individual examples of farmers markets, box schemes, producer cooperatives and community‐supported agriculture projects, less ...
Dowler, Elizabeth +5 more
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The Food Web of Potter Cove (Antarctica): complexity, structure and function [PDF]
, 2018 Knowledge of the food web structure and complexity are central to better understand ecosystem functioning. A food-web approach includes both species and energy flows among them, providing a natural framework for characterizing species’ ecological roles ...
Barrera Oro, Esteban +14 more
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Canadian Food Studies, 2014 The current focus of Alternative Food Network (AFN) literature in the global North overlooks the reality of Southern AFNs and the potential contributions from studying Southern case studies.
Erin Maureen Pratley, Belinda Dodson
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Are Solidarity Purchasing Groups a Social Innovation? A Study Inspired by Social Forces
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2018 The Social Forces theory was proposed by Beckert (2010) to study the interconnecting dynamic interrelations between institutions, networks and cognitive frames that underlie economic phenomena. In the context of this article, this theoretical perspective
Lara Maestripieri
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Status report - FoodReach Toronto: lowering food costs for social agencies and community groups
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2018 Toronto has the largest absolute number of food insecure households for any metropolitan census area in Canada: of its 2.1 million households, roughly 252 000 households (or 12%) experience some level of food insecurity.
Paul Coleman +4 more
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