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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Alternative food networks"”.
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Allotments and alternative food networks: the case of Plymouth, UK
Alternative food networks (AFNs) are the focus of an ‘explosive growth’ of research in Europe (Goodman 2004), and the term covers a wide range of activities, from food banks, community gardens, and farmers’ markets, to community supported or organic agriculture. However, there is an impasse in …
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The role of alternative food networks in agricultural landscape conservation: some evidences from Italy and Spain
Drawing on the vast literature about Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) and by utilizing the concepts of social, spatial and ecological embeddedness, this thesis studies the driving forces boosting the AFN farmers’ behaviours in the Community of Madrid and the AFN and conventional farmers in …
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Spaces of difference, spaces of possibility? : An exploration of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) in the austerity foodscape of the United Kingdom
… knowledge of this thesis lies in understanding Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) as central in the ongoing reconfiguration of ‘civil society’ in the enduring period of austerity following the 2007-8 global financial crisis. Drawing on a qualitative research study in Lancashire, I show how the …
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Exploring the Online Farmers’ Market: Neoliberal Venture Capital Meets the Alternative Food Movement
This research examines the recent merger of alternative food networks (AFNs) with technology startup food delivery companies. Rather than situating these new “online farmers’ markets” within a binary alternative-industrial framing, this work explores the ways in which these new market models bridge …
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The Production of Space, Place, and Food: The Ecology of Money and the Emergence of Transformative Circuits of Money Capital
… production, distribution, and consumption of two food systems is undertaken. The orthodox or industrial food system, characterized by intensive agriculture, and the countervailing agriculture of alternative food networks supply contrasting subjects for investigating the role of distance in the …
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Selling Tradition: Impression Management and Draft Animal Agriculture of a Mississippi Farmstead
… tap into a niche market of consumers desiring an alternative to the modern, conventional agricultural system. </p> <p>Other literature on Alternative Food Networks (AFN) discusses the issues of alterity and appropriation—that is, whether AFN ventures are sufficiently alternative and are not simply …
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A Solidarity (Food) Purchase Group in Cape Town
For the past thirty years, food producers and consumers have initiated alternative food networks (AFNs) because of the perception that the globalising agrifood system is unsustainable, untrustworthy, and untransparent. These alternative strategies for food production and distribution are perceived …
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Establishing Nourishing Food Networks in an Era of Global-local Tensions: An Interdisciplinary Ethnography in Turkey
… strive to develop, and make sense of, networks that address these wicked problems and to understand how these strategies might aggregate to promote community resiliency. An investigation of alternative food networks (AFNs) was contextualized in one province in Western Turkey. The AFNs …
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Niagara alternative food projects : networks, discourses and nature /
… undertakes an exploration of the nature of alternative food projects in Niagara. A review of various theoretical approaches to the study of food and agriculture, suggests that actor-network theory offers the most useful lens through which to understand these projects. In particular, …
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Shared Lunch: An Ethnography of Food Sovereignty in Whaingaroa and Beyond
Food presents complex interconnectedness between inner and outer; social and political; culture and biochemistry; values and practices; tradition and innovation; wealth and poverty; the global, local and highly personal. Amid this multifaceted intersection vast bodies of contemporary academic …
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Gleaned, grown and gifted : the significance of social food economies in productive cities
… environmental consequences of consumerism and food insecurity being of particular concern. Rather than believe that cities are the cause of all that is unsustainable, this dissertation tenders the concept of the 'productive city' - that cities can contribute to food security and environmental …
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Gleaned, grown and gifted : the significance of social food economies in productive cities
… environmental consequences of consumerism and food insecurity being of particular concern. Rather than believe that cities are the cause of all that is unsustainable, this dissertation tenders the concept of the 'productive city' - that cities can contribute to food security and environmental …
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Alternative Food Landscapes. Designing Food-Sensitive Landscapes beyond Urban-Rural Bonundaries
… and climate change, integrating sustainable food systems into urban-rural landscapes has become a crucial strategy for developing resilient environments and communities. Contemporary food systems' weaknesses have been exacerbated by global crises like COVID-19 and geopolitical tensions, …
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The defining characteristics of alternative food initiatives in Ireland: a social movement battling for an alternative food future?
Alternative food initiatives (AFIs) have been described as an attempt to change and improve aspects of how the food system operates. They are focused around more traditional, local and sustainable food production and circulation. AFIs such as farmers’ markets, allotments and community gardens, …
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Food Supply Chains and Food-Miles: An Analysis for Selected Conventional, Non-local Organic and Other-Alternative Foods Sold in Missoula, Montana
The spatial patterns of the conventional food supply chain have played a significant role in increasing the amount of miles food travels before being consumed. As a result, this has increased the amount of energy that is required to transport food from the farm to the table. The food supply chain …
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Food Supply Chains and Food-Miles: An Analysis for Selected Conventional, Non-local Organic and Other-Alternative Foods Sold in Missoula, Montana
The spatial patterns of the conventional food supply chain have played a significant role in increasing the amount of miles food travels before being consumed. As a result, this has increased the amount of energy that is required to transport food from the farm to the table. The food supply chain …