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Exploring Possibilities to Enhance Food Sovereignty within the Cowpea Production-Consumption Network in Northern Ghana

open access: yes, 2009
Over the last years an important focus in the combat of hunger and malnutrition,particularly in Africa has been food security. This article explores possibilities for enhancing food sovereignty, as an alternative concept to food security and an ...
Frempong, G.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

The spaces for farmers in the city: A case study comparison of Direct Selling Alternative Food Networks in Toronto, Canada and Belo Horizonte, Brazil

open access: yesCanadian 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
doaj   +1 more source

Status report - FoodReach Toronto: lowering food costs for social agencies and community groups

open access: yesHealth 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
doaj   +1 more source

Hungry for change: the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Sydney Food Fairness Alliance is one of a growing number of nascent food movements in Australia to have emerged out of concern for the country’s food future, as well as the deleterious effect the present food system is having on its ...
Frances Parker, Elizabeth Morgan
core   +1 more source

Audits and agrarianism: The moral economy of an alternative food network

open access: yesElementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2015
With consumers and producers seeking alternatives to corporate, industrial food, systems of provision that promise greater ecological and social sustainability have gained in popularity.
Liz Carlisle
doaj   +1 more source

IMPACT Projections of Food Production, Consumption, and Net Trade to 2050, With and Without Climate Change: Extended Country-level Results for 2019 GFPR Annex Table 6

open access: yes, 2018
Policy makers, analysts, and civil society face increasing challenges to reducing hunger and improving food security in a sustainable way. Modeling alternative future scenarios and assessing their outcomes can help inform their choices. The International
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
core   +1 more source

A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in Uremic Toxins From 1991 to 2024

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Uremic toxins are a growing area of research in nephrology, with significant implications in the progression and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the management of end‐stage kidney disease (ESKD). This bibliometric analysis aims to evaluate the global research trends, key contributors, and the impact of publications in ...
Yuh‐Shan Ho   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fun, community, and culture in a Japanese alternative food network

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionAlternative 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
doaj   +1 more source

The (Glg)ABCs of cyanobacteria: modelling of glycogen synthesis and functional divergence of glycogen synthases in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the diversity of Community Supported Agriculture: a transdisciplinary framework with empirical evidence from Germany

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionCommunity Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an emerging model within alternative food networks (AFNs). It shapes close relationships between food producers and consumers, thereby contributing to food sovereignty and agri-food system ...
Matthias Middendorf   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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