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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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Wieś i Rolnictwo, 2016 This article describes how members of consumer cooperatives define quality food. Cooperatives are seen as one of the forms of Alternative Food Networks. The concept of quality food is defined subjectively.
Ruta Śpiewak
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ALTERNATIVE FOOD NETWORKS E CITTÀ IN ITALIA
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2019 In the last twenty years the study of alternative food networks (AFNs) gained growing attention insomuch as some scholars argue that it is appropriate to reflect critically on the results of these body of literature and consider what is needed for the ...
Filippo Randelli +2 more
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Alternative Food Networks Development and Multiple Actors’ Participation in China: A Review
International Journal of Agriculture System, 2016 This article reviews the studies about the alternative food network development in China, summarizes the results and identifies the issues for further research. It first introduces different theoretical perspectives in alternative food network studies in
Huan Yang
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An In-Depth Look at Chinese Alternative Food Networks
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2020 First paragraph: This book is an important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of rural China in a time of economic slowdowns, continued urbanization, and growing political unease in China.
Anthony Fuller
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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 +7 more
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Agricultural and Food Economics, 2020 Despite the increasing interest around alternative food networks and their huge growth in the last decades, they are still considered a complementary source of provision by most customers.
Clara Cicatiello
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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 +2 more
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Alternative = transformative? Investigating drivers of transformation in alternative food networks in Germany [PDF]
Sociologia Ruralis, 2021 AbstractIn the hope for more sustainable agriculture and a stronger connection to their food, an increasing number of consumers participate in alternative food networks (AFNs) characterised by short food supply chains. However, it cannot be assumed that AFNs inherently transform the prevailing system and its respective practices around food.
Felix Zoll +2 more
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Agriculture, 2021 While food production and consumption processes worldwide are characterized by geographical and social distance, alternative food networks aim to reconnect producers and consumers.
Christina Gugerell +5 more
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