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A Paradigm Shift in Microbial Protein Manufacturing. [PDF]

open access: yesLife (Basel)
Zhuo X   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Predicting missing links in food webs using stacked models and species traits. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun
Van Kleunen LB   +4 more
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Culture and the Politics of Alternative Food Networks

Food, Culture & Society, 2009
AbstractMuch of the existing research on emerging alternative food networks has not sufficiently recognized the importance of culture and we seek to address this omission. Through two case studies of global and local forms of alternative food networks respectively, we demonstrate the centrality and complexity of the workings of culture in the places ...
Wendy Parkins, Geoffrey Craig
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Adult Learning in Alternative Food Networks

New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
This chapter describes the role small‐scale organic farmers are playing as adult educators in alternative food networks and as leaders for food systems transformation. Findings are drawn from a survey of organic farmers in British Columbia, Western Canada.
Catherine Etmanski   +1 more
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Characterizing alternative food networks in China

Agriculture and Human Values, 2014
Amid the many food safety scandals that have erupted in recent years, Chinese food activists and consumers are turning to the creation of alternative food networks (AFNs) to ensure better control over their food. These Chinese AFNs have not been documented in the growing literature on food studies.
Zhenzhong Si   +2 more
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Beyond Alternative Food Networks

2013
Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer's markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di ...
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Mapping the Organisational Forms of Networks of Alternative Food Networks: Implications for Transition

Sociologia Ruralis, 2017
AbstractIn response to the failures of the dominant agro‐food regime multiple practices for transition towards more environmentally and socially sustainable food systems have been proposed and put into practice by Alternative Food Networks (AFNs). To advance societal transitions, some AFNs have employed a strategy of developing broader networks.
Duncan, J.A.B., Pascucci, Stefano
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Fairness and Alternative Food Networks in Italy

2017
A fairer and sustainable distribution of added value and information along the food supply chain is becoming a relevant issue. Extensive literature has analyzed the development of distributions models, commonly called Alternative Food Networks (AFNs), that short-circuit the long, complex and rationally organized industrial chain, emphasizing their ...
MARIANI, Angela, VASTOLA A. P.
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Alternative Food Networks and Civic Food Initiatives in Turkey

2021
This article handles Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) which have emerged approximately in the last fifteen years in Turkey and discusses Civic Food Initiatives (CFIs) in a historical manner in Turkey. For this, study reviews AFS literature and presents spatial pattern of CFIs in Turkey.
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