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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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Exploring Possibilities to Enhance Food Sovereignty within the Cowpea Production-Consumption Network in Northern Ghana [PDF]
, 2009 Over the last years an important focus in the combat of hunger and malnutrition,particularly in Africa has been food security. This article explores possibilities for enhancing food sovereignty, as an alternative concept to food security and an ...
Frempong, G. +3 more
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Alternative Food Networks and the Socialization of Food
Économie des conventions, 2021 The Alternative Food Networks’ (AFN) conceptual framework appeared in the context of the internationalization of food provision systems, and of the so-called quality turn, to distinguish food networks connecting territories, products, and people, which claim to be alternatives to conventional food systems, or alternatives to dominant food supply chains.
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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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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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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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Avoiding Asda? Exploring consumer motivations in local organic good networks [PDF]
, 2008 Supermarkets such as Asda (owned by Wal-Mart) have responded to the growth in direct marketing and alternative agri-food networks by promoting local produce ranges, and increasingly sourcing organic produce from the UK.
Seyfang, G
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AIMS Agriculture and Food, 2017 Food justice discourse has emerged partly in response to the critique of alternative food networks during the last decade, but its justice conceptualization tends to be too narrowly focused on food-related injustices rather than broader social injustices
Laura McKinney, Yuki Kato
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Situating the 'alternative' within the 'conventional' - local food experiences from the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK [PDF]
, 2014 Policy makers rarely feature in research into alternative and local food systems (ALFS), yet are often regarded as central actors in supporting such local food systems, sometimes as part of wider rural development strategies.
O'Neill, Kirstie J.
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Alternative Food Networks in Romania – Effective Instrument for Rural Development?
Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning, 2021 "Recent public policies in the European Union foster a new multifunctional agricultural model, which, besides the food production function of farms, address the ecological, cultural, and social services they deliver, so that agriculture may contribute to
Kinga Xénia HAVADI-NAGY
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