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For food space: theorizing alternative food networks beyond alterity

Journal of Political Ecology, 2020
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 theoretical approaches deployed in the study of AFNs.
Renata Blumberg, Helga Leitner, Kirsten Valentine Cadieux   +2 more
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Alternative Food Networks in Latin America-exploring PGS (Participatory Guarantee Systems) markets and their consumers: a cross-country comparison. [PDF]

Agric Human Values, 2023
Alternative food networks (AFN) are argued to provide platforms to re-socialize and re-spacealize food, establish and contribute to democratic participation in local food chains, and foster producer–consumer relations and trust. As one of the most recent
Kaufmann S, Hruschka N, Vildozo L, Vogl CR.   +3 more
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How Does the Concept of Guanxi-circle Contribute to Community Building in Alternative Food Networks? Six Case Studies from China. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel), 2022
As social innovations that help to transition towards a more sustainable food system, alternative food networks (AFNs) in China have attracted much scholarly attention in recent years.
Li Y, Si Z, Miao Y, Zhou L.
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An insight into market and non-market alternative food networks in Czechia during Covid-19 and beyond. [PDF]

Front Nutr
Introduction The Covid-19 pandemic affected food systems in many countries and emphasized a lot of already existing social, economic and environmental agri-food problems.
Smutná Z, Vávra J, Duží B.
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'I will know it when I taste it': trust, food materialities and social media in Chinese alternative food networks. [PDF]

Agric Human Values, 2021
Trust is often an assumed outcome of participation in Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) as they directly connect producers with consumers. It is based on this potential for trust “between producers and consumers” that AFNs have emerged as a significant ...
Martindale L.
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Organizational Models of Alternative Food Networks within the Rural–Urban Interface

Administrative Sciences, 2023
Alternative food networks (AFNs) represent local food systems and short supply chain networks alternative to global food systems. These networks are often developed within rural–urban interfaces and take various forms, due to the high propensity towards ...
Lucia Laginová, Michal Hrivnák, Jana Jarábková   +2 more
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The division of work in Senegalese conventional and alternative food networks: a contributive justice perspective

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Labor conditions and rights are a key justice issue in agri-food systems, particularly in global, capitalized and industrialized food supply chains. While alternative food networks have emerged to produce and distribute food outside these logics, their ...
Sébastien Boillat, Sébastien Boillat, Sébastien Boillat, Patrick Bottazzi, Patrick Bottazzi, Ibrahima Khalil Sabaly, Ibrahima Khalil Sabaly, Ibrahima Khalil Sabaly   +7 more
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Alternative Food Networks in Quebec

Canadian Food Studies, 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 ...
Manon Boulianne, Patrick Mundler
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Navigating agroecological urbanism: examining linkages and interdependencies within alternative food networks

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
In pursuing agroecological urbanism – a strategic endeavor to dismantle disempowering structures within urban food systems through cultivating mutual interdependencies – alternative food networks (AFNs) emerge as pivotal catalysts for transformative ...
Tanya Zerbian, Tanya Zerbian, Daniel López-García   +2 more
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Territorial Social Innovation and Alternative Food Networks: The Case of a New Farmers’ Cooperative on the Island of Ibiza (Spain)

Agriculture, 2022
Social innovation is gaining attention as a perspective that stresses the relevance of transforming social relations to promote sustainable territorial development.
Néstor Vercher
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