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Underperforming policy networks : the biopesticides network in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2010 Loosely integrated and incomplete policy networks have been neglected in the literature. They are important to consider in terms of understanding network underperformance.
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Cultivating Alliances: The Local Organic Food Co-ops Network
Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2015 Although social movements can lose their way in neoliberal times, building alliances can help them to leverage their strengths and overcome their weaknesses, thus avoiding co-optation and “mission drift.” One example of this strategy can be found within ...
Jennifer Sumner, Cassie Wever
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Transition in place: dynamics, possibilities, and constraints [PDF]
, 2016 The Transition Movement is a translocal phenomenon circulated through transnational grassroots networks. This study explores the geographies of the Transition Movement with a theoretical framework that perceives it as both a social movement and a ...
Feola, Giuseppe, Nicolosi, Emily
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Alternative food networks: sustainable business models for anti-consumption food cultures
British Food Journal, 2018 PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse a sustainable business model (SBM) implemented by an Alternative Food Network (AFN), namely the Italian Food Assembly, with the goal of exploring its drivers of success and explaining how it can contribute to enhance sustainable and anti-consumption behaviours.
Paola De Bernardi, Lia Tirabeni
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Conventions, Alternative Food Networks, and Food Movements
Économie des conventionsGilles Allaire (2025) In Rainer Diaz-Bone & Guillemette de Larquier (eds.), Handbook of economics and sociology of conventions. Cham: Springer, Online first Abstract. The concepts of “alternative food network” (AFN) and of “quality turn” date back to the end of the 1990s and were initially developed primarily within the framework of the economics and ...
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Exploring hybridity in food supply chains [PDF]
In recent years, a number of dynamic aspects of food supply chains have attracted great interest among social scientists investigating rural restructuring and change. These include: the expansion of organic agriculture; the development of new value added
Kirwan, James, Slee, William
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Complexity and trust – experiences from local Danish Food Communities [PDF]
, 2012 Generally food consumers in Denmark do not trust the food production and distribution systems and the management of risk related to food consumption has become part of the daily life of many (Halkier & Holm, 2004).
Kjeldsen, Chris, Thorsøe, Martin H.
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Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2016 The article analyzes the (in) compatibility between food market dynamics and agro ecological principles, studying a network of cooperatives created by agrarian reform farmers.
Oscar José Rover, Ademir de Jesus Riepe
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Planting material as key input for sustainable palm oil [PDF]
, 2007 The trends generally agreed for the future of palm oil as an important commodity are the combination of a demand for food that will double over the next 20 years, the emergence of new uses as a renewable energy source, and (until the recent price ...
Baskett, J.P.C. +5 more
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Experimental auctions, collective induction and choice shift: willingness-to-pay for rice quality in Senegal [PDF]
, 2012 We propose a collective induction treatment as an aggregator of information and preferences, which enables testing whether consumer preferences for food quality elicited through experimental auctions are robust to aggregation.
Demont, Matty +5 more
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