Farmers' markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods–how
have these once novel," alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them …

Despite theoretical developments in conceptualising alterity, what counts as 'alternative'in
unconventional systems of food provision remains contested. This paper argues that the …

To better understand the success and the growing number of Short Food Supply Chains in
Italy, this study investigates consumer motivations and behaviours with regard to these …

In this paper we explore the development and incidence of alternative food networks within
a European-wide context. By develo** a consistent definition of short food supply chains …

The division of 'rural'and 'urban'is one of the oldest ideas in Geography and is deeply
engrained in our culture. Throughout history, the rural has been attributed with many …

As an apparent counterpoint to globalization, food system localization is often assumed to
be a good, progressive and desirable process. Such thinking rests on a local–global binary …

“Coming home to eat”[Nabhan, 2002. Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of
Local Foods. Norton, New York] has become a clarion call among alternative food …

This paper examines embeddedness and the turn to quality in agro-food research. It
suggests that the notion of embeddedness requires critical scrutiny and that the implications …

Sustainable consumption is gaining in currency as a new environmental policy objective.
This paper presents new research findings from a mixed-method empirical study of a local …

In developed countries, upstream operators in the agro-food chain are being encouraged to
become more market oriented as well as to engage in more localised, alternative food …