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Conceptualization of alternative food networks in Latin America: a case study of a local food system in Southwestern Colombia

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Alternative Food Networks (AFN) is a concept that has emerged in opposition to conventional food systems and the global food regime. AFN are localized food networks that connect actors from food producers to consumers creating a pathway that strengthens ...
Rachael Maysels, Apolinar Figueroa Casas, Juan Diego Otero Sarmiento, Shiomara Mileydi Zuñiga Meneses   +3 more
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Quality. Local. Social. What else? – Which factors motivate consumers to participate in alternative food networks in Hungary?

Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Solidaria e Innovación Socioecológica, 2020
Alternative food network (AFN) cases are now reported in many countries worldwide. They are growing in Hungary as well, though the alternative food movement is still at an early stage of development (Benedek & Balázs, 2014a).
Anna Torok, Ágnes Neulinger, György Pataki, Fanni Bársony, Orsolya Lazányi   +4 more
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Laying the foundations of a more conscious society? How vendors, consumers and organizers socially construct farmers’ markets in Bogotá, Colombia

Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales, 2022
This study examines how vendors, customers, and organizers socially construct agroecological farmers markets (FM) in Bogotá. Using a multi-method approach entailing structured and unstructured interviews, descriptive statistics, and ethnographic content
Malin Gütschow, Giuseppe Feola
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Moving beyond the impasse in geographies of ‘alternative’ food networks

Progress in Human Geography, 2022
Despite theoretical developments in conceptualising alterity, what counts as ‘alternative’ in unconventional systems of food provision remains contested. This paper argues that the literature has reached an impasse.
Denise Misleh
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ALTERNATIVE FOOD NETWORKS AND NEW PRODUCER-CONSUMER RELATIONS IN FRANCE AND IN BRAZIL [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade, 2016
This paper presents an analysis about agroecological alternative food networks and new producer-consumer relationships in France and Brazil. The investigation method is based on descriptive and qualitative research about 20 cases (qualitative interviews),
MOACIR ROBERTO DAROLT, CLAIRE LAMINE, ALFIO BRANDENBURG, MARIA DE CLÉOFAS FAGGION ALENCAR, LUCIMAR SANTIAGO ABREU   +4 more
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Alternative = transformative? Investigating drivers of transformation in alternative food networks in Germany

Sociologia Ruralis, 2021
In 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.
F. Zoll, K. Specht, R. Siebert
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The Coexistence of Local and Global Food Supply Chains: The Lombardy Region Case Study

Agriculture, 2020
Over the last years, the trust of consumers in the quality and sustainability of the food system has weakened due to the disconnection between producers and consumers. Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) and Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs), born out of the
Chiara Mazzocchi, Stefano Corsi, Giordano Ruggeri   +2 more
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Understanding the market potential of products from alternative food networks in a transition economy—a discrete choice experiment

British Food Journal, 2022
PurposeEthical consumption is on the rise amidst concerns about the environmental and health impacts of industrial agriculture. In light of increasingly complex food choices, alternative food networks have emerged.
J. Möllers, Theresa Bäuml, T. Dufhues
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Alternative Food Networks, Social Capital, and Public Policy in Mexico City

Sustainability, 2022
Social initiatives that seek to promote socially fairer and environmentally more sustainable food production and distribution schemes have multiplied in the last two decades.
A. G. Pasquier Merino, Gerardo Torres Salcido, David Sébastien Monachon, Jessica Geraldine Villatoro Hernández   +3 more
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The Social Process of Defining Quality Food, Based on the Opinions of Polish Consumer Cooperative Members

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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