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Danish case report: The Danish Food Communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Food Communities was chosen as a case for HealthyGrowth because they constitute a major novelty within the Danish foodscape. As indicated in section 3, the Food 2 Communities have emerged as the latest incarnation of a series of attempts to forge ...
Kjeldsen, Chris   +2 more
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Making meaningful comparisons between road and rail – substituting average energy consumption data for rail with empirical analysis

open access: yes, 2014
Within the transport sector, modal shift towards more efficient and less polluting modes could be a key policy goal to help meet targets to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions.
Armstrong, John   +2 more
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A strategic niche management approach for shaping bio-based economy in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The goal of this paper is to investigate the transition towards a bio-based economy as part of a broader sustainable transition in Europe. To analyse the challenges and opportunities associated with the bio-based economy, we applied the Strategic Niche ...
Tani, Almona
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From the Qualities of Products to the Qualities of Relations: Value Conventions in the Solidarity Economy in Sicily

open access: yesValuation Studies, 2019
This article explores the “quality battlefield” in the food economy – the dispute over value conventions between mainstream business actors and alternative food networks. It shows how actors in one particular alternative network – the solidarity economy –
Mihai Varga
doaj   +1 more source

Decades of dietary data demonstrate regional food web structures in the Southern Ocean

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
Understanding regional‐scale food web structure in the Southern Ocean is critical to informing fisheries management and assessments of climate change impacts on Southern Ocean ecosystems and ecosystem services. Historically, a large component of Southern
Stacey A. McCormack   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hidden in Plain Sight: Learning from Chinatown’s Produce Distribution System

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2019
First paragraph: New York’s Chinatown has a century-old produce distribution system that supplies the city with more than 200 types of extremely low-cost fresh fruits and vegetables that are sourced from hundreds of small- and midsize biodiverse farms
Nevin Cohen
doaj   +1 more source

For food space: theorizing alternative food networks beyond alterity

open access: yesÉconomie des conventions, 2021
Blumberg, Renata, Helga Leitner, and Kirsten Valentine Cadieux (2020). In: Journal of Political Ecology 27(1): 1-22. Open access. https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23026 ABSTRACT "In response to calls by scholars to deepen theoretical engagement in research on Alternative Food Networks (AFNs), in this article we critically discuss and assess major ...
openaire   +1 more source

Conscious consumer resistance? Local organic food networks versus the supermarkets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Supermarkets have responded to the growth in direct marketing and alternative agri-food networks by promoting local produce ranges, and increasingly sourcing organic produce from the UK.
Seyfang, Gill
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Welfare and Market Impacts of Food Safety Measures in China: Results from Urban Consumers' Valuation of Product Attributes

open access: yesJournal of Integrative Agriculture, 2014
This study provides an economics assessment of various food safety measures in China. A choice experiment approach is used to elicit Chinese consumer preferences for various food safety attributes using data from a 2008 urban consumer survey.
David L. Ortega   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Engendering European alternative food networks through countertopographies

open access: yesAnthropology of food, 2022
Recent interventions in scholarly literature have revealed how alternative methods of food production and provision are empowering for women farmers. This literature has been largely based on the historical trajectory of agriculture in the US and Western Europe, where women have been marginalized and excluded as farmers.
openaire   +2 more sources

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