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Alternative food networks as a counterbalance in the globalized perception of young consumers [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2020 The phenomenon of alternative food networks is becoming increasingly important, especially in the context of changes in consumer behavior and business sustainability.
Navrátilová Miroslava +3 more
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How alternative food networks work in a metropolitan area? An analysis of Solidarity Purchase Groups in Northern Italy [PDF]
, 2019 Our paper focuses on Solidarity Purchase Group (SPG) participants located in a highly urbanized area, with the aim to investigate the main motivations underlining their participation in a SPG and provide a characterization of them.
Baldi L. +3 more
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, 2021 This study sheds light on a new generation of Swedish food producers, market gardeners, who are attracting attention in terms of food system sustainability, prompted by increasing consumer awareness about the value of healthy and locally produced food ...
A. Drottberger +2 more
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Alternative Food Networks: Perceptions in Short Food Supply Chains in Spain
Sustainability, 2021 Alternative spaces for the consumption of non-conventional foods as short commercialization chains have been increased worldwide, as well as the interest in understanding the dynamics developed in those initiatives from a social approach, has increased ...
Sttefanie Yenitza Escobar-López +2 more
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LE ALTERNATIVE FOOD NETWORKS IN TEMPO DI CRISI
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2019 The ongoing economic crisis and the growing concerns about food quality and safety are leading to an increasing awareness of consumption habits among citizens. Critical consumption is defining an alternative geography of food.
Simon Maurano, Francesca Forno
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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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Apulia agro-biodiversity between rediscovery and conservation: the case of the «Salento km0» network
Central European Journal of Geography and Sustainable Development, 2021 Green Revolution and the birth of the current global economic system had two opposite, subsequent effects. If, initially, they led to processes of crop homogenization, seasonal adjustment, homogenization of the landscape and markets standardization ...
Sara Nocco
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Communication and building social capital in community supported agriculture
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2022 Community supported agriculture (CSA) schemes (programs) provide an alternative means for obtaining produce, through direct purchase from farms. They are also often driven by a vision of transforming the current mainstream food system and seek to build
Ella Furness +7 more
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Researching European ‘alternative’ food networks: some methodological considerations [PDF]
Area, 2006 Recent European literature on ‘alternative’ food networks (AFNs) draws heavily upon an apparently accessible and diverse body of non‐conventional food networks in the agro‐food sector and whilst researchers frequently refer to individual examples of farmers markets, box schemes, producer cooperatives and community‐supported agriculture projects, less ...
Dowler, Elizabeth +5 more
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Alternative Food Networks and Food Provisioning as a Gendered Act [PDF]
, 2014 Alternative food networks (AFNs) are exemplified by organic, Fair Trade and local foods, and promote forms of food provisioning that are ‘corrective’ to conventional agriculture and food (agrifood) systems.
Som Castellano, Rebecca L.
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