Reference Type Reference Id Authors, Primary Title Primary Periodical Full Periodical Abbrev Pub Year Pub Month & Day Pub Date Free From Volume Issue Start Page Other Pages Keywords Abstract Notes Personal Notes Authors, Secondary Title Secondary Edition Publisher Place Of Publication Authors, Tertiary Authors, Quaternary Authors, Quinary ISSN/ISBN Availability Author/Address Accession Number Output Language Language Classification Sub file/Database Original Foreign Title URL DOI PMID PMCID Call Number Database Data Source Identifying Phrase Retrieved Date Shortened Title User 1 User 2 User 3 User 4 User 5 User 6 User 7 User 8 User 9 User 10 User 11 User 12 User 13 User 14 User 15 Journal Article RefID:10435-moragues-faus2020critical Moragues-Faus,Ana Towards a critical governance framework: Unveiling the political and justice dimensions of urban food partnerships Geographical Journal Geogr.J. 2020 186 1 73 86 everyday politics;governance;participative justice;political ecology;post-political;urban food policy Current governance configurations have been signalled as a key driver for, but also a potential solution to, food insecurity and sustainability challenges. In this context, cities are becoming key transition spaces where new food governance systems are being fashioned, creating “spaces of deliberation” that bring together civil society, private actors, and local governments. To date, food governance analyses have been mostly aligned with an optimistic philosophy that in many instances overlooks conflicts of interest, winners and losers of different arrangements, and institutional deadlocks. A critical account of these new governance mechanisms is particularly relevant to incorporate fully the political dimension inherent in the production of and access to food. By studying the emergence and functioning of eight food partnerships in the UK, this paper aims to advance the conceptualisation and practice of a critical governance perspective. The paper combines three approaches in a new framework: political ecology, post-political scholarship, and participative justice. This innovative lens allows us to navigate how different partnerships mobilise notions of equality, participation, and inclusion; co-produce knowledge, values, and reflexivity within governance spaces; and create different forms of connectivity and autonomy to transform urban foodscapes. The analysis highlights how food partnerships expand beyond formal governance mechanisms and are actively (re)shaped by different agencies and relationships. This raises the need to explore the transformative capacity of everyday politics; that is, how it can contribute to developing more inclusive, equitable, and emancipatory urban foodscapes. At a time of increasing health and social inequalities, urban and food governance studies would benefit from exploring new ways of effectively championing the knowledges, needs, and experiences of those still living “at the margins.”. 10.1111/geoj.12325 Journal Article RefID:10434-vittersø2019short Vittersø,Gunnar;Torjusen,Hanne;Laitala,Kirsi;Tocco,Barbara;Biasini,Beatrice;Csillag,Peter;de Labarre,Matthieu Duboys;Lecoeur,Jean Loup;Maj,Agnieszka;Majewski,Edward;Malak-Rawlikowska,Agata;Menozzi,Davide;Török,Áron;Wavresky,Pierre Short food supply chains and their contributions to sustainability: Participants' views and perceptions from 12 European cases Sustainability (Switzerland) 2019 /9 11 17 Alternative food networks (AFN);Box schemes;Case study;Europe;Farmers' markets;Food systems;Local development;Local fish;Short food supply chain (SFSCs);Solidarity purchasing groups;Sustainability The present food system faces major challenges in terms of sustainable development along social, economic and environmental dimensions. These challenges are often associated with industrialised production processes and longer and less transparent distribution chains. Thus, closer distribution systems through Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) may be considered as a sustainable alternative. This study explores the role of different types of SFSCs and their contribution to sustainability through participants' (consumers, retailers and producers) views and perceptions. As part of the European H2020 project "Strength2Food" we conducted a cross-case analysis and examined 12 European SFSC cases from six countries: France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland and the UK.We applied a mixed method approach including primary data collection, via in-depth interviews and customer surveys, as well as desk research. The findings suggest that, irrespective of the type of SFSC, a strong agreement among the participants were found on the contribution of SFSCs to social sustainability. However, participants' views considerably differ regarding the economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. These differences relate to the way the SFSCs were organised and to some degrees to regional differences attributed to the significance of SFSC in different parts of Europe. The article concludes that the spatial heterogeneity of SFSCs, including supply chain actor differences, different types and organisational forms of SFSCs as well as regional and territorial characteristics, must be taken into account and further emphasised in future policies aimed at strengthening European food chain sustainability. MDPI 10.3390/su11174800 Journal Article RefID:10433-lamine2012civic Lamine,Claire;Darolt,Moacir;Brandenburg,Alfio The Civic and Social Dimensions of Food Production and Distribution in Alternative Food Networks in France and Southern Brazil Int.Jnrl.of Soc.of Agr.& Food 2012 19 3 383 401 This article offers comparative insight into alternative food networks, based on French and Brazilian case studies. Looking at a series of initiatives, such as producer-consumer networks (Ecovida in Southern Brazil, AMAP in France), collective producer shops, farmers' markets, and school provisioning schemes, we analyse the modes of coordination and decision-making that are articulated and the roles of the different actors involved. We show that the growing role of consumers and producers in these food networks, not only as individuals but also as citizens often involved in civil society organizations, can directly influence changes in public policy and the forms of agriculture practised, thereby leading to a better integration of the civic and social dimensions of food production and distribution. In both countries alternative food networks have strongly contributed to the legitimization of agro-ecology, although this is framed significantly by national specificities surrounding the institutionalization of ecological agriculture. In France this process focuses on organic agriculture, while it is more diverse in Brazil. Finally, we show that civic food networks' influence on public policy partly relies on the alliances these networks are able to develop amongst themselves and with more institutional actors. We conclude with a discussion about food democracy. Journal Article RefID:10432-cucco2015local Cucco,Ivan;Fonte,Maria Local food and civic food networks as a real utopias project Socio.hu 2015 22 36 For scholars and activists alike, local food is linked to visions of a more equitable, ethical and sustainable agro-food system. Notwithstanding an apparent unity, local food is mobilized for very different aims including environmental sustainability, the revitalization of rural economies, the reconnection of consumers to agriculture and nature and the promotion of land entitlements for marginalized populations. At the same time, local food has become a crucial element in protectionist and neo-ruralist ideologies that support bounded, defensive spatial strategies. These contradictions point to the limited heuristic value of the 'local food' concept, particularly when decoupled from an explicit attention to the political and power dimensions of the local. Building upon these considerations, in this article we explicitly focus on the political and transformative dimensions of different local food projects and propose to read local food as a 'real utopia' project whose aim is the transformation of the food economy in the direction of sustainability, social emancipation and social justice. Utilizing the framework developed by E.O. Wright, we look at local food as a diagnosis and critique of the present; as the prefiguration of a more sustainable, just and democratic future; and as a set of transformative strategies that aim at changing the system in the desired direction. Our analysis suggests that, differently from the oppositional movements of the Fordist era, the local food movement is characterized by its use of interstitial (" ignore the state ") and symbiotic (" use the state ") strategies. These strategies either seek to establish new economic and social relations at the margins of the neoliberal food economy, or partner with local institutions to consolidate new experiences with food democracy and food justice. By mobilizing non-ruptural strategies in the service of a real utopian project, local food initiatives are opening up new, enlarged spaces for non-capitalist or post-capitalist economies that constitute the basis for social learning and experimentation of a global more sustainable and just food system. A further step ahead could be constituted by the promotion of a reflexive, more democratic, socially empowering system of governance, able to lead the innovative potential of the food movement to its full expression. Socio.hu 10.18030/socio.hu.2015en.22 Journal Article RefID:10431-renting2012building Renting,Henk;Schermer,Markus;Rossi,Adanella Building Food Democracy: Exploring Civic Food Networks and Newly Emerging Forms of Food Citizenship Int.Jrnnl.of Soc.of Agr.& Food 2012 19 3 289 307 In recent years new types of consumer-producer cooperation in food networks have emerged in which consumers play an active role in the operation and thereby clearly go beyond food provisioning as such. Examples include consumer coops and solidarity buying groups of local and organic food, community-supported agriculture and collective urban gardening initiatives. These initiatives raise important new questions that cannot be adequately resolved within existing theoretical perspectives based on concepts such as 'alternative food net Journal Article RefID:10430-lozano-cabedo2017theoretical Lozano-Cabedo,Carmen;Gómez-Benito,Cristóbal A Theoretical Model of Food Citizenship for the Analysis of Social Praxis Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 2017 /2 30 1 1 22 Food citizenship;Food governance;Food movements;Right to food Food citizenship is considered a helpful tool for extending the debate about the rights and duties of citizens to the field of food, and for fomenting participation of all actors in the governance of agri-food systems. Despite its generalized use, this concept has still to be systematically defined. The objective of this article is to apply the analytical framework of citizenship to the food dimension in order to identify the features which, from an analytical perspective, characterise food citizenship. By reviewing the available literature, we identify which are the constituent elements associated with the current concept of citizenship and we explore the treatment that different food theory approaches give to them. We also analyze what are the characteristics attributed to food citizenship by scholars and food movement practitioners. In addition, we propose a theoretical model of food citizenship structured into eight propositions. These propositions have as core ideas an extended concept of the right to food, the assumption of obligations, the combination of public and private behavior, the individual and collective participation, the empowerment of all actors of the agri-food system, the promotion of justice, fairness and sustainability in food systems, and a cosmopolitan character of food citizenship. The theoretical model of food citizenship we propose is a framework under construction, but we believe it to be a useful tool to stimulate theoretical debate about the concept, guide empirical research and foment citizen awareness about food issues. Springer Netherlands 10.1007/s10806-016-9649-0 Journal Article RefID:10429-migliore2014farmers Migliore,Giuseppina;Caracciolo,Francesco;Lombardi,Alessia;Schifani,Giorgio;Cembalo,Luigi Farmers' participation in civic agriculture: The effect of social embeddedness Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 2014 12 36 2 105 117 Edinburgh Farming Attitudes Scale;Farmers' attitudes;Theory of Planned Behavior This work investigates how farmers' attitudes influence their decision to participate in some particular forms of civic agriculture, namely farmers' markets (conventional or organic), solidarity purchase groups, direct selling, and box schemes. It also explores whether social embeddedness-related attitudes occur with different intensities within the various types of civic agriculture. To this end, a survey was carried out among farmers participating in civic agriculture in Sicily (Italy). Empirical results confirm the role of social embeddedness whereby personal relations between farmers and consumers are emphasized: a greater presence of community relations fosters a greater role of social embeddedness in farmers' decisions. Wiley Blackwell 10.1111/cuag.12038 Journal Article RefID:10428-mooney2022local Mooney,Patrick H. Local governance of a field in transition: The food policy council movement Journal of Rural Studies J.Rural Stud. 2022 89 98 109 Field theory;Food democracy;Food policy councils;Governance;Local food;Social movements Food regime analysis and some governance approaches contend that the construction of the next food regime depends on social movements and that novel conceptualizations as well as meso-level approaches are needed. A revision of field theory is employed to analyze food policy councils (FPCs) as a movement that represents a North American manifestation of emergent place-based governance. Analyzing FPCs' framing of the food system as strategic action fields, it is argued that FPCs may function as internal governance units that mediate local implementation of the next food regime. Other than a novel devolution toward the local level, FPCs' tactical repertoire reflects a dissonance between conventional means and claims of alternative/oppositional objectives. Various processes associated with a rationalization of the expertise and logic of singular fields may subvert the very form that frames FPCs' place-based democratic aspirations. Transformational capacities are assessed in view of Wright's qualitative distinction of transformational strategies. Elsevier Ltd https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.11.013 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.11.013 Journal Article RefID:10427-fèche2021building Fèche,R.;Noûs,C.;Barataud,F. Building a transformative initiative for a territorialized agri-food system: constructing a living-lab and confronting norms? A case study from Mirecourt (Vosges, France) Journal of Rural Studies J.Rural Stud. 2021 88 400 409 Living-lab approach;Mirecourt (vosges, France);Normalization;Social innovation;Territorialized agri-food system;Transformative initiatives The change of scale and potential reconfiguration of decision-making powers make the French context of reterritorialization of food seem favorable to the transition of agri-food systems in certain areas. However, it also includes a movement towards normalization and integration into the dominant system, which may lower the goals of transition, through the norm conveyed by actors and systems. Based on the example of a rural territory in the Vosges and a multi-actor agri-food dynamic in which the authors of this article are stakeholders, our analysis shows that a territorialized agri-food dynamic can actually create new narratives and new ways of doing and thinking that are necessary for the transition. This is achieved by at least partially standing back from this context and drawing on different resources. The search for otherness, both in the content and in the form of the project, is an advantage for a real transition of the agri-food system, without however guaranteeing it. Periods of reassurance shielded from the dominant regime and allowing for collective experimentation with alternative initiatives, as well as the reflexivity of the actors involved throughout the simultaneous processes of reflection and action, afford some distance from the normalizing context while taking advantage of the resources it can offer. The living-lab approach constitutes an inspiring methodology to achieve this. It allows for the implementation of an otherness of content and supports an otherness of form by facilitating the emergence of a niche in the food governance of the territory. At the same time, it also promoted a collective reflexivity among the stakeholders involved. 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.07.026 Journal Article RefID:10426-kretschmer2021sustainability Kretschmer,Sebastian;Dehm,Sheena Sustainability transitions in university food service—A living lab approach of locavore meal planning and procurement Sustainability (Switzerland) 2021 13 13 Living lab;Local;Organic;Planetary health;Public procurement Due to its purchasing power, the public food service sector is viewed as a potential trans-formative driver towards sustainable food systems. Organic meal planning and regional procurement may be a vital implementation strategy towards Planetary Health Diets in the communal catering arena. Capable of unleashing desirable synergies within local foodsheds, this transition pathway can potentially benefit all stages of the value chain, while also positively influencing consumer dietary behavior. Transformation, however, poses complex challenges to caterers, as it demands a shift in mindset regarding the philosophy, organization, and management of cafeteria systems as well as the need for affordable and aggregated supplies of source‐identified local organic foods. This action research case study engaged the public caterer of a German University, undergraduate students, and additional stakeholders in a Living Lab to develop a weekly farm‐to‐table cafeteria menu, including its actual preparation, based on a conceptual sustainability standard. Hence, through an iterative process, involving two feedback cycles, an ambitious set of nutritional and procurement criteria were devised, inspired by the external input from exemplary practitioners in the field of green cuisine and procurement. The resulting meal plan was then subjected to an evaluation vis‐á‐vis its compliance with (1) dietary recommendations, (2) seasonality, (3) organic certification, (4) a defined foodshed boundary, (5) budget neutrality, and (6) life cycle assessment. 10.3390/su13137305 Journal Article RefID:10425-ajates2021reducing Ajates,Raquel Reducing the Risk of Co-Optation in Alternative Food Networks: Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives, Social Capital, and Third Spaces of Cooperation SUSTAINABILITY 2021 10 13 20 11219 multi-stakeholder co;social capital;third spaces Farming cooperatives are organisations fundamentally based on social capital. However, the neoliberal and globalisation turn in the food system have led to the economisation of agricultural cooperatives as their main objective and criteria for evaluating their performance, and to a retreat from their participation in the wider cooperative movement. Nevertheless, new models of cooperation may provide a method to divert from this neoliberalisation trend by promoting social capital and mutual learning amongst different actors committed to a transition to sustainable food systems. This paper applies the anthropological concept of third spaces to examine the case of multistakeholder cooperatives. This type of food and farming cooperatives are composed of a diverse membership groups (e.g., producers, consumers, coordinators, buyers, etc). A nuanced analysis of these cooperatives' capacity to generate social capital, and more specifically to blur the boundaries between bonding, bridging, and linking social capital, is presented. Evidence from five case studies suggests that multistakeholder cooperatives that remain at the border of their game, operating in both real and symbolic third spaces, are more likely to be based on and reproduce different types of social capital as well as social and environmental sustainability, while in turn reducing the risk of co-optation of their transformative practices. MDPI ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND 10.3390/su132011219 Journal Article RefID:10424-moragues-faus2020critical Moragues-Faus,Ana Towards a critical governance framework: Unveiling the political and justice dimensions of urban food partnerships Geographical Journal Geogr.J. 2020 /3 186 1 73 86 everyday politics;governance;participative justice;political ecology;post-political;urban food policy Current governance configurations have been signalled as a key driver for, but also a potential solution to, food insecurity and sustainability challenges. In this context, cities are becoming key transition spaces where new food governance systems are being fashioned, creating “spaces of deliberation” that bring together civil society, private actors, and local governments. To date, food governance analyses have been mostly aligned with an optimistic philosophy that in many instances overlooks conflicts of interest, winners and losers of different arrangements, and institutional deadlocks. A critical account of these new governance mechanisms is particularly relevant to incorporate fully the political dimension inherent in the production of and access to food. By studying the emergence and functioning of eight food partnerships in the UK, this paper aims to advance the conceptualisation and practice of a critical governance perspective. The paper combines three approaches in a new framework: political ecology, post-political scholarship, and participative justice. This innovative lens allows us to navigate how different partnerships mobilise notions of equality, participation, and inclusion; co-produce knowledge, values, and reflexivity within governance spaces; and create different forms of connectivity and autonomy to transform urban foodscapes. The analysis highlights how food partnerships expand beyond formal governance mechanisms and are actively (re)shaped by different agencies and relationships. This raises the need to explore the transformative capacity of everyday politics; that is, how it can contribute to developing more inclusive, equitable, and emancipatory urban foodscapes. At a time of increasing health and social inequalities, urban and food governance studies would benefit from exploring new ways of effectively championing the knowledges, needs, and experiences of those still living “at the margins.”. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 10.1111/GEOJ.12325 Journal Article RefID:10423-yuna2016short Yuna,Chiffoleau;Sarah,Millet Amrani;Arielle,Canard From short food supply chains to sustainable agriculture in urban food systems: Food democracy as a vector of transition Agriculture (Switzerland) 2016 12 6 4 Economic sociology;Food democracy;Food labelling;Intervention research;Non-activists;Re-territorialization;Short food chains;Sustainability;Transition;Urban food systems In industrialized nations, local food networks have generally been analyzed through alternative food systems, in spite of the fact that they are much more diverse than this would imply. In France, ‘short food chains’ are both a continuation of a long tradition and a recent trend which now extends beyond activists, to consumers and producers as well. This paper will explore the conditions under which these chains can change the practices and knowledge of ordinary actors in urban food systems, from producers to urban consumers and policy-makers, in the area of agriculture and sustainability. It will consider the case study of the creation and development of an urban open-air market which has been analyzed using intervention research with input from economic sociology. We will highlight how personal relations, which are encouraged by a participatory context, support the evolution of practices and knowledge. We will also illustrate how a system of produce labelling has emerged as a mediation resource, and has increased changes as well as participation within the re-territorialization of the urban food system. By describing a concrete expression of food democracy which is spreading in France via a free collective trademark, and by showing its role in the transition of ‘ordinary’ actors towards a more sustainable agriculture, this paper will shine new light onto local food chains as well as traditional short food chains, and will call for more research on the subject. MDPI AG 10.3390/AGRICULTURE6040057 Journal Article RefID:10422-chiffoleau2016short Chiffoleau,Yuna;Millet-Amrani,Sarah;Canard,Arielle;Berti,Giaime;Kneafsey,Moya;Lev,Larry;Monasterolo,Irene;Schneider,Sergio From Short Food Supply Chains to Sustainable Agriculture in Urban Food Systems: Food Democracy as a Vector of Transition Agriculture 2016 6 57 1 18 economic sociology;food democracy;food labelling;intervention research;non-activists;re-territorialization;short food chains;sustainability;transition;urban food systems In industrialized nations, local food networks have generally been analyzed through alternative food systems, in spite of the fact that they are much more diverse than this would imply. In France, 'short food chains' are both a continuation of a long tradition and a recent trend which now extends beyond activists, to consumers and producers as well. This paper will explore the conditions under which these chains can change the practices and knowledge of ordinary actors in urban food systems, from producers to urban consumers and policy-makers, in the area of agriculture and sustainability. It will consider the case study of the creation and development of an urban open-air market which has been analyzed using intervention research with input from economic sociology. We will highlight how personal relations, which are encouraged by a participatory context, support the evolution of practices and knowledge. We will also illustrate how a system of produce labelling has emerged as a mediation resource, and has increased changes as well as participation within the re-territorialization of the urban food system. By describing a concrete expression of food democracy which is spreading in France via a free collective trademark, and by showing its role in the transition of 'ordinary' actors towards a more sustainable agriculture, this paper will shine new light onto local food chains as well as traditional short food chains, and will call for more research on the subject. www.mdpi.com/journal/agriculture 10.3390/agriculture6040057 Journal Article RefID:10421-wald2016rescaling Wald,Navé;Hill,Douglas P. ‘Rescaling’ alternative food systems: from food security to food sovereignty Agriculture and Human Values 2016 33 1 203 213 Alternative food networks;Food security;Food sovereignty;Food utopia;Scale In this paper, we critically interrogate the benefits of an interdisciplinary and theoretically diverse dialogue between ‘local food’ and ‘alternative food networks’ (AFNs) and outline how this dialogue might be enriched by a closer engagement with discourses of food sovereignty and the politics of scale. In arguing for a shift towards a greater emphasis on food sovereignty, we contend that contemporary discourses of food security are inadequate for the ongoing task of ensuring a just and sustainable economy of food. Further, rather than treating the local and the global as ontologically given categories around which to contest the politics of food, it is our contention that recognising the socio-spatial aspects of the politics of scale has the potential to reinvigorate discourses of food security, food sovereignty and AFNs. Understanding scale as both fixed to a degree as well as contingent and dynamic has implications for an understanding of the role of food systems, for how the rescaled state privileges certain food systems and the possibilities for resistance through ‘jumping scale’ and food utopias. All of these aspects are significant if we are to fully comprehend and contest the challenges of envisioning and enacting real utopias of food sovereignty. 10.1007/s10460-015-9623-x Journal Article RefID:10420-stein2021sustainability Stein,Alexander J.;Santini,Fabien The sustainability of "local" food: a review for policy-makers Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies 2021 25 1 13 Food security;Food systems;Greenhouse gas emissions;Local food;Short supply chains;Sustainability In the political discussion, the promotion oflocal food systems and short supply chains is sometimes presented as a means to increase the resilience of the food system, e.g. in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is also suggested as a means to improve the environmental footprint of the food system. Differentiating between local food systems and short supply chains, a review of the literature on the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainability is carried out. “Local food” cannot simply be equated with “sustainable food”; in most cases, it neither can ensure food security nor does it necessarily have a lower carbon footprint. For the environmental sustain- ability of food systems, many more factors matter than just transportation, not least consumers’ dietary choices. In terms ofsocial sustainability, local food systems are not necessarily more resilient, but they can contribute to rural development and a sense of community. In terms of economic sustainability, selling via short supply chains into local markets can benefit certain farmers, while for other producers it can be more profitable to supply international markets. Keywords Local food . Short supply chains . Food systems . Sustainability . Greenhouse gas emissions . Food security https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-021-00148-w 10.1007/s41130-021-00148-w Journal Article RefID:10419-marsden2018rebuilding Marsden,Terry;Hebinck,Paul;Mathijs,Erik Re-building food systems: embedding assemblages, infrastructures and reflexive governance for food systems transformations in Europe Food Security 2018 10 1301 1309 Assemblages;Food security;Food systems;Rebuilding This introductory paper to the special section argues that there are now significant signs and opportunities of real transformations of food systems in which to create new synergies between sustainable consumption and production, and which can potentially shift agri-food into more secure and sustainable sets of conditions. With reference to empirical research in Europe, the paper assesses the transformative potential of a series of mobilisations associated with: sustainable city networks, community cooperative and share schemes, and regional agro-ecological, seed, plant and livestock schemes. Not denying the significance of countervailing intensive and industrialised food regimes, the paper introduces a set of conceptual building blocks, which emerge as ways of both assessing and progressing these mobilisations. It is argued that to succeed they need elements of at least four conditions: (i) a significant and lasting reconfiguration of governance and regulatory conditions; (ii) an ability and capacity to both promote sustainable production and food access and diet through the development of new assemblages; (iii) develop new social and physical and distributional infrastructures which can scale out their impacts; and (iv) be embedded in a more reflexive governance context which is both supportive and spatially sensitive to their diverse conditions. The succeeding papers in the special issue will deal with these transformatory factors in comparative and empirical depth. Here we outline how and why such a 're-building' has become so critical at this current juncture. 13011309 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-018-0870-8 10.1007/s12571-018-0870-8 Journal Article RefID:10418-gamache2020living Gamache,Guillaume;Anglade,Juliette;Feche,Romain;Barataud,Fabienne;Mignolet,Catherine;Coquil,Xavier Can living labs offer a pathway to support local agri-food sustainability transitions? Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 2020 37 93 107 Commons;Living lab;Local agri-food system;Social experiment;Sustainability;Sustainable transition Living labs are defined as both an approach and an arena for supporting experimentation in natural settings with a wide range of actors. In this article we explore the potential and limits of living labs for analysing and supporting the local transition of agri-food systems. We base on a bibliometric analysis and insights from our transdisciplinary research team's experience with agroecological transition. It appears that living labs informed mainly by strategic managerial and user-centric approaches benefiting the dissemination of (technological) innovation, require certain changes in order to address sustainable development issues. Citizen-centred living lab approaches are better suited to increase capacity building and empowerment through action, iterative learning, and capitalization of experience. Faced with the specific issues of local agri-food system transition, we propose to (re)-introduce the notion of “commons” in order to support the collective territorial management of both material resources (food, environment) and immaterial resources (values, ideas). Elsevier B.V https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2020.08.002 10.1016/j.eist.2020.08.002 Journal Article RefID:10417-lópez-garcía2020agroecology López-García,Daniel;García-García,Verónica;Sampedro-Ortega,Yolanda Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems Exploring the contradictions of scaling: action plans for agroecological transition in metropolitan environments) Exploring the contradictions of scaling: action plans for agroecological transition in metropolitan Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 2020 44 4 467 489 Participatory action research;Spàin;agroecological transition;local agroecological dynamization;sustainable food systems When public administrations promote agroecological transitionprocesses there is a risk that these be conventionalized and co-opted. However there is a notable lack of research on the adop-tion of participatory approaches to processes of agroecologicaltransition, especially in larger territories. This article analyzestwo case studies in which territorial Action Plans for agroecolo-gical transition have been co-produced through participatoryprocesses in metropolitan areas of the Spanish State. Analysis ofthese two cases leads us to outline a series of significant factorsthat may serve to adapt the methodological approach of LocalAgroecological Dynamization to different contexts. We alsopoint out some contradictions inherent to participatory pro-cesses for agroecological transitions promoted by the adminis-tration, in regards to the conflictive dialectics among top-downand bottom-up processes, and to the weakness of agroecology-oriented farmers in metropolitan environments. Finally, we pro-pose some efforts to overcome these contradictions. https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=wjsa21 10.1080/21683565.2019.1649783 Book, Whole RefID:10416-compras Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Compras públicas de alimentos Report RefID:10415-foodcommon FOOD,IPES Towards a Common Food Policy for the European Union.The Policy Reform and realignment that is required to build sustainable food systems in Europe Book, Whole RefID:10414-klein2020les Klein,J. L.;P. Les Living Labs 2020 291 À partir des réfl exions sur les Living Labs présentées dans ce livre, nous postulons que le développement territorial devrait produire de la valeur pour l’ensemble des parties prenantes au sein des expériences territoriales et qu’il devrait contribuer au développement de l’ensemble de la société, à toutes les échelles (locale, régionale, nationale, globale). Ceci nous amène à poser l’hypothèse que la valeur à produire doit être surtout une « valeur d’usage », laquelle doit avoir prééminence sur des « valeurs d’échange » qui inscrivent les territoires dans des processus de concurrence sans égard au bien-être collectif. Dans la mesure où le territoire est un milieu de vie pour les citoyens, l’accroissement de sa valeur d’usage correspond à son amélioration et à sa protection en tant que milieu de vie, incluant les dimensions économiques, sociales, culturelles et environnementales qui le façonnent. Voilà la leçon qui doit être tirée de la lecture de cet ouvrage. L'Harmattan Paris 9782343199405 Book, Section RefID:10413-janin2017les Janin,Claude;Pecqueur,Bernard Les living labs territoriaux : 2017 /9 99 116 Presses de l'Université du Québec 10.2307/j.ctt1f89st2.11 Journal Article RefID:10412-blay-palmer2018validating Blay-Palmer,Alison;Santini,Guido;Dubbeling,Marielle;Renting,Henk;Taguchi,Makiko;Giordano,Thierry Validating the City Region Food System approach: Enacting inclusive, transformational City Region Food Systems Sustainability (Switzerland) 2018 /5 10 5 City region;Food systems;Policy coherence;Sustainability This paper offers a critical assessment of the value and utility of the evolving City Region Food Systems (CRFS) approach to improve our insights into flows of resources-food, waste, people, and knowledge-from rural to peri-urban to urban and back again, and the policies and process needed to enable sustainability. This paper reflects on (1) CRFS merits compared to other approaches; (2) the operational potential of applying the CRFS approach to existing projects through case analysis; (3) how to make the CRFS approach more robust and ways to further operationalize the approach; and (4) the potential for the CRFS approach to address complex challenges including integrated governance, territorial development, metabolic flows, and climate change. The paper begins with the rationale for CRFS as both a conceptual framework and an integrative operational approach, as it helps to build increasingly coherent transformational food systems. CRFS is differentiated from existing approaches to understand the context and gaps in theory and practice. We then explore the strength of CRFS through the conceptual building blocks of 'food systems' and 'city-regions' as appropriate, or not, to address pressing complex challenges. As both a multi-stakeholder, sustainability-building approach and process, CRFS provides a collective voice for food actors across scales and could provide coherence across jurisdictions, policies, and scales, including the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Habitat III New Urban Agenda, and the Conference of the Parties (COP) 21. CRFS responds directly to calls in the literature to provide a conceptual and practical framing for policy through wide engagement across sectors that enables the co-construction of a relevant policy frame that can be enacted through sufficiently integrated policies and programs that achieve increasingly sustainable food systems. MDPI 10.3390/su10051680 Journal Article RefID:10411-chiffoleau2020coexistence Chiffoleau,Yuna;Brit,Anne-Cécile;Monnier,Milo;Akermann,Grégori;Lenormand,Maxime;Saucède,Florent Coexistence of supply chains in a city's food supply: a factor for resilience? Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies 2020 101 391 414 Cities;Food supply;Multi-disciplinary;Resilience;Supply chains The objective of this article is to propose and test an approach to characterise a city's supply system and analyse its resilience. Anchored in economic and network sociology, the approach has been enriched by contributions from management sciences and geomatics, which have made it possible to conceptualise a city's supply system as a network that is both social and spatialised, structured by operators and circulating differentiated products. Tested in the city of Montpellier, a signatory of the Milan Pact, this research was based on the production of primary data from a variety of sellers and suppliers. While confirming the complementarity between short and long supply chains, the results show more broadly how the articulation of three spatialised markets favours the resilience of the city's supply, even if it is also a source of vulnerability. Therefore, these results make an original contribution to the intersection of research on the resilience of urban supply and on coexistence in food systems, while also calling for further research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-020-00120-0 10.1007/s41130-020-00120-0 Journal Article RefID:10410-vaarst2017agroecology Vaarst,Mette;Getz Escudero,Arthur;Chappell,M. J.;Brinkley,Catherine;Nijbroek,Ravic;Arraes,Nilson A. M.;Andreasen,Lise;Gattinger,Andreas;Fonseca de Almeida,Gustavo;Bossio,Deborah;Halberg,Niels Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems Exploring the concept of agroecological food systems in a city-region context Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems 2017 42 6 686 711 Based on urgent needs for food security compounded by achanging climate which impacts and is impacted by agriculturalland-use and food distribution practices, we explore the pro-cesses of action in implementing agroecological food systems.We identified the following characteristics for an agroecologicalfood system: 1. Minimizing use of external inputs, 2. Extent ofinternal resource recycling, 3. Resilience, 4. Multifunctionality, 5.Building on complexity and incorporating greater systems inte-gration, 6. Contextuality, 7. Equity and, 8. Nourishment. We focuson the city-region food systems context, concluding with practi-cal drivers for realizing more agroecological food systems in city-region contexts. Agroecological food systems are widely diverse,shaped by context, and achieved through multi-actor planning inrural, peri-urban and urban areas. Application of agroecologicalfood systems in rural–urban contexts emphasize the necessity ofdiversification, zoning rural–urban landscapes, planning for sea-sonality in a food systems context, and producing at scale. Rural–urban food systems are a relevant and challenging entry pointthat provides opportunities for learning how food systems can beshaped for significant positive change. Social organization, com-munity building, common learning, and knowledge creation arecrucial for agroecological contextualized food systems, as are thesupports from appropriate governing and institutional structures https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=wjsa21 10.1080/21683565.2017.1365321 Report RefID:10409-vsf2013compra VSF Justicia,Alimentaria Global Compra pública en sistemas alimentarios locales. Impactos sociales, ambientales y económicos 2013 130 Barcelona https://tienda.justiciaalimentaria.org/descargar/compra-publica-en-sistemas-alimentarios-locales Book, Whole RefID:10408-gonzález2020political González de Molina,M.;Petersen,P. F.;Garrido Peña,F.;Caporal,F. R. Political Agroecology. Advancing the Transition to Sustainable Food Systems 2020 201 CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Boca Ratón 978-1-138-36922-1 10.1201/9780429428821 Report RefID:10407-2018políticas Fundación Entretantos,RUAF Foundation,y Red de Políticas alimentarias urbanas para la sostenibilidad 2018 84 El presente informe ha sido elaborado por la Fundación Entretantos, con el apoyo de la Red de Ciudades por la Agroecología y la Fundación RUAF. Consiste en el estudio comparado de políticas alimentarias desarrolladas en once ciudades integradas en dicha Red. El análisis se ha realizado en base a cuestionarios respondidos por responsables técnicos de las políticas alimentarias en cada ciu- dad, entrevistas personales a este personal técnico, análisis de documentación de trabajo elaborada en el marco de la Red de Ciudades por la Agroecología. La discusión de los resultados obtenidos se ha emprendido a partir de la revisión bibliográfica de estudios previos sobre políticas alimentarias urbanas en el ámbito internacional, así como a partir de la asistencia a eventos de ámbito nacional e internacional relacionados con las políticas alimentarias urbanas. https://www.ciudadesagroecologicas.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/PoliticasAlimentariasUrbanasParaLaSostenibilidad_Informe_v4.pdf Journal Article RefID:10406-chiffoleau2018les Chiffoleau,Y.;Bouré,M.;Akermann,G. Les circuits courts alimentaires à l'heure du numérique: quels enjeux ? Une exploration Innovations Agronomiques 2018 67 37 47 Le rôle du numérique dans les circuits courts alimentaires reste très peu étudié alors que celui-ci participe assurément de leur renouveau. Dans cet article, nous revenons tout d'abord sur l'histoire récente de ces circuits pour montrer la place du numérique dans les différents modèles de développement qui les entourent. En croisant nos observations, les échanges développés au sein du RMT Alimentation locale et une expérience concrète dans le domaine, nous explorons ensuite une diversité d'usages actuels du numérique dans les circuits courts, sur la base d'une échelle de maturité technologique. Cette typologie, inédite, nous permet de pointer certains atouts, limites et enjeux de ces usages, dans une perspective de durabilité des systèmes alimentaires en particulier. Nous ouvrons alors la discussion autour d'un enjeu majeur de ce point de vue, à savoir le rôle que peut jouer le numérique dans le développement de la démocratie alimentaire, favorable à la transition de ces systèmes. Nous proposons pour conclure plusieurs pistes de recherche pluridisciplinaire et participative, que la collaboration chercheurs-acteurs à l'origine de ce papier a déjà permis de faire avancer. Abstract: Short food supply chains in the digital age: which challenges ? An exploration The role of digital in short food supply chains remains little studied while this one contributes certainly to their renewal. In this paper, we first go back to the recent history of these chains to show the place of digital in the different models of development around them. By crossing our observations, exchanges within the RMT Alimentation locale and a concrete experience in the domain, we then explore a diversity of digital uses, based on a scale of technological maturity. This typology, unpublished, allows us to point out some of the advantages, limits and challenges of these uses, in the perspective of food systems' sustainability especially. We thus open the discussion around a major challenge from this point of view, that is the role which can play digital in the development of food democracy, favouring the transition of these systems. To conclude, we propose several lines of pluridisciplinary and participatory research, which the collaboration researchers-actors behind this paper has already helped to advance. Book, Whole RefID:10405-prigent-simonin2012au Prigent-Simonin,Anne;Hérault-Fournier,Catherine (coordinadors) Au plus près de l'assiette: pérenniser les circuits courts alimentaires 2012 261 Du champ à la table, les produits alimentaires suivent des chemins variés. Parmi ceux-ci, les circuits courts alimentaires rencontrent un succès grandissant auprès de certains publics. Qui sont ces acheteurs tentés par des alternatives à la vente traditionnelle ? Quelles relations entretiennent-ils avec les producteurs ? Quels sont les outils et quels sont les acteurs indispensables pour enrichir cette relation marchande, basée sur la confiance et la proximité ? Comment canaliser le foisonnement de profils et de démarches constitutifs de cette approche, souvent conduite avec engagement ? Quels atouts représentent-ils pour la valorisation des ressources locales ? Cet ouvrage, abondamment illustré de photos et de documents scientifiques, porte un oeil neuf sur les réflexions actuelles et sur la multiplicité des configurations portées par les circuits courts. Issu du projet collectif LiProCo, il rassemble et croise les expertises de chercheurs et de spécialistes issus des sciences de gestion, de la sociologie, de la géographie et de l'économie. Exemples à l'appui, il explique pourquoi la maîtrise de leur complexité organisationnelle est un enjeu fort pour les professionnels, agriculteurs et acteurs intermédiaires et un facteur clé de la pérennisation de ces démarches. Eds. Quae & Educagri Eds Versailles & Dijon 2759217809 https://books.Google Scholar.com/books?id=7L9SF7QLuYAC&pgis=1 Book, Whole RefID:10404-yacamán2015el Yacamán Ochoa,Carolina;Zazo-Moratalla,Ana El Parque Agrario. Una figura de transición hacia nuevos modelos de gobernanza territorial y alimentaria 2015 Heliconia S. Coop. Mad Madrid 978-84-606-9205-8 Journal Article RefID:10403-hispacoop2020nuevo Hispacoop,AAVV Un nuevo modelo de cooperativismo de consumo Cuadernos de las cooperativas de consumidores 2020 29 33 Special issue sobre supermercados cooperativos https://hispacoop.es/un-nuevo-modelo-de-cooperativismo-de-consumo/ Report RefID:10402-2015innovative European Commission (EIP-Agri) Innovative Short Food Supply Chain management Final Report 2015 2015 80 Short Food Supply Chains (SFCs) have potential to improve farm incomes, promote sustainable farming systems and contribute to local economic development. There are many different forms of SFC in Europe, but they share a common characteristic of reduced numbers of intermediaries between the farmer or food producer, and the consumer. Whilst the number of SFCs has proliferated, their collective impact is limited by a number of barriers to scaling up. This report summarises the findings of the EIP-AGRI expert focus group on Innovative Short Food Supply Chain Management. The overall aims of this temporary group of experts were to: identify the main needs or instruments required to implement SFCs which can increase farm incomes; to highlight the factors that currently hamper scaling up and to make recommendations for solutions to the problems. The report focuses on setting up and getting support for collaborative activities in which more than one farmer, food producer, organisation or individual agree to work together to develop short food chains for mutual benefit. Brussels https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/publications/eip-agri-focus-group-innovative-short-food-supply Journal Article RefID:10401-praly2014les Praly,C.;Chazoule,C.;Delfosse,C.;Mundler,P. Les circuits de proximité, cadre d'analyse de la relocalisation des circuits alimentaires,Proximity supply chains, an analytical framework for the localization of food supply chains Geographie Economie Societe 2014 16 4 455 478 R;REPE The localization of food supply chains represents various realities, old and most innovative, named in several ways: short food supply chains, local food, etc. The purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical framework enabled to all marketing channels relative to the localization phenomenon. From a literature review of the existing concepts and the economy of proximity applied to local food supply chains, we build the concept of proximity supply chains (I). It is then tested in three case studies representing a variety of marketing channels and products (II). The main findings of case studies demonstrate the value of the concept of proximity supply chains: on the one hand, it includes marketing channels that exceed the definition of short supply chains but which are a way to localize the food supply chains, and on the other hand, it highlights the role of intermediaries in this localization. 10.3166/ges.16.455-478 Journal Article RefID:10400-reina-usuga2018territorial Reina-Usuga,L.;De-Haro,T.;Parra-López,C. Territorial short food supply chains: Conceptualization and characterization for the case of Córdoba, Spain ITEA Informacion Tecnica Economica Agraria 2018 114 2 183 202 Food system;Relational capital;Social networks;Territorial food governance;Territorial market;Territory This paper aims at making progress in the conceptualization and characterization of Territorial Short Food Supply Chains (TSFSCs). As an illustration, this characterization is applied in the city of Córdoba (Spain), through the use of Social Network Analysis techniques. Results show that TSFSCs are a form of collective action that enhance relational capital and territorial embeddedness. The linkage among alternative economies, the participation of small producers, and the construction of trust mechanisms are emphasized. Thus, changes in territorial food governance are manifested by the prevailing participation of civil society organizations in this type of initiatives. 10.12706/itea.2018.012 Report RefID:10399-raton2020logistique Raton,Gwenaëlle;Gonçalves,Amélie;Gaillard,Leila;Wallet,Fréderic Logistique des circuits alimentaires courts de proximité. État de lieux, nouveaux enjeux & pistes d'évolution 2020 1 69 Paris https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02627169/document 10.15454/FDWTG6 Journal Article RefID:10398-gonzalez-feliu2017food Gonzalez-Feliu,Jesus Food hub: Una alternativa para alimentar las ciudades de manera sostenible Revista transporte y territorio 2017 17 17 10 33 Cadenas alimentarias;Cadenas de suministro sostenibles;Food chains;Food hub;Food security;Logística urbana;Seguridad alimentaria;Sustainable supply chains;Urban logistics Resumen La tarea de alimentar las ciudades es un reto al que hoy se enfrentan todos los gobiernos e implica una coordinación de múltiples productores, distribuidores, operadores logísticos y comerciantes de alimentos perecederos. Este artículo pretende analizar los Food hubs en el sistema de distribución urbano de alimentos, de manera crítica y sistemática desde la literatura. Se presenta en primera instancia un estado del arte sobre el concepto de Food hub, luego se presenta una propuesta de tipificación de Food hubs de acuerdo a unos cri-terios, concentrándose en actores implicados en el proceso de distribución de alimentos, estructura jurídica y sus funciones. También se describen los impactos sociales, económicos y medioambientales que traería consigo la implementación de un Food hub. Finalmente, se presentan las principales oportunidades para la expansión de Food hubs urbanos y se exponen cuatro ejemplos latinoamericanos, relacionándolos con la tipología propuesta. 10.34096/rtt.i17.3865 Journal Article RefID:10397-ioannis2019communitybased Ioannis,Manikas;George,Malindretos;Socrates,Moschuris A community-based Agro-Food Hub model for sustainable farming Sustainability (Switzerland) 2019 11 4 Agro-food Hubs;Agrofood sustainability knowledge hub;Family farms;SMEs;Small farms;Sustainable food communities This conceptual paper focuses on the Agro-Food Hub paradigm as the main enabler for the sustainable development of agro-food Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the context of the currently established agro-food systems. This paper is based on a shared knowledge-driven research that presents different approaches/types of Agro-Food Hubs, providing useful insights into the strategic, operational and institutional approaches of the topic. After the illustration of the main approaches for the Agro-Food Hubs met in the literature, a holistic Agro-Food Hubs model was proposed (the Agro-Food Sustainability Knowledge Hub model), incorporating the main principles and functional guidelines within the framework of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainable Supply Chain Management. This study is in line with the demographic, economic and social prospects for the 2050 and the European Economic and Social Committee decision for "An EU Industrial Policy for the Food and Drinks Sector" adopted on 4 May 2015. In particular, since the majority of research in the past focused on large organizations, this paper is expected to enlighten the problems emerged from current applied practices together with the opportunities for potential synergies among agricultural SMEs, through the utilization of alternative sustainable channels of distribution and value creation, such as the Agro- Food Hubs. 10.3390/su11041017 Journal Article RefID:10396-morganti2015city Morganti,Eleonora;Gonzalez-Feliu,Jesus City logistics for perishable products. The case of the Parma's Food Hub Case Studies on Transport Policy 2015 3 2 120 128 City logistics;Food delivery;Food hub This paper analyzes schemes for delivering food to urban food outlets, i.e. corporate retail chains, independent retailers and the hotel, restaurants and catering (Ho.Re.Ca.) sector. We present a case study of Parma, Italy, where traffic regulations, delivery services and an urban distribution center have been implemented in order to improve efficiency and reduce the adverse impacts of urban food distribution within the city. The study depicts the role of public actors in defining policy measures and, in particular, focuses on the wholesale produce market, which has been revitalized by means of the Food Hub concept to provide consolidation services as an urban distribution center. Finally, we propose generalization to place our findings in the wider context of European city logistics studies. World Conference on Transport Research Society http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2014.08.003 10.1016/j.cstp.2014.08.003 Journal Article RefID:10395-psarikidou2015rethinking Psarikidou,Katerina Re-thinking innovation through a moral economy lens : the case of alternative agro-food and mobility practices Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization 2015 15 1 67 93 innovation;alternatives;moral economy;practi In recent times of crisis, innovation has been recognised as a critical response to the multiple social and economic challenges contemporary societies have to face. Diverse organisations and actors have been constructing visions and imaginaries aiming at identifying various 'sustainable innovations' (Urry, 2011; 2013) that promise to provide their own remedies for such challenges. In many cases, however, such innovations appear to evolve into conservative, top-down projects of exclusion whose contribution is reduced to the production of constant economic growth and the participation of specific 'innovators', while overshadowing the role of other networks or actors involved in such processes (Felt et al., 2007; Suchman and Bishop, 2000). Among these organisations and actors, an increasing number of alternative economic organisations and initiatives have emerged that aim to develop their own pathways for transformation and change. Drawing on findings from the Liveable Cities and FAAN research projects, this paper is focused on a selection of alternative agro-food and mobility practices in the cities of Manchester and Birmingham, in order to explore their potential to constitute alternative innovation practices. More specifically, after an exploration of the different definitions, concepts and discourses variously used to describe, but also challenge, the concept of 'innovation' and its dominant understanding in policy and research (EC, 2013; Felt et al., 2007; Tyfield, 2013; Geels and Schot, 2007), this paper employs the political economic discourse of the 'moral economy' (Sayer, 2000; Booth, 1994; Thompson, 1971), as well as sociological and anthropological theories of value, money and commodities (Graeber, 2001; North, 2007; Zelizer, 1989; Appadurai, 1994). In doing so, it suggests an alternative perspective for approaching innovation through a moral economy lens. More specifically, by exploring the particular moral economic characteristics of alternative agrofood and mobility practices, it suggests going beyond a narrow understanding of innovation by situating it in the moral economy of such practices and the wider set of social values and symbolic meanings attributed to them. Journal Article RefID:10394-viñas2014de Viñas,Marc Barbeta De los vínculos en el consumo al consumo en los vínculos: Análisis de las formas de sociabilidad en las prácticas de consumo ecológico Revista Espanola de Sociologia 2014 22 2014 67 95 Bonds;Ecological consumption;Links;Qualitative analysis;Relations The paper proposes an analysis of the bonds developed in the context of ecological consumption. Within the debate about the bonds in consumption and in discussion with the postmodern thesis of community reconstruction through consumption, is committed to a hypothesis which recognizes the dynamic, multidimensional and ambivalent development of significant bonds in the contexts of consumption. In this paper are analyzed by qualitative methods (focus groups and interviews) the bonds developed in ecological consumption practices. With the analysis distinguish contexts relevant bonds, the bond types that collect discourse (relations, links, "social bond"), and discursive differences that set ecological consumers in their consumption practices differ. Empirical evidence put us in the difficult field of ecological consumption in shaping global and inclusive social bonds, given their particular, fragmentary and differentiating meaningful contexts. © Federación Española de Sociología. Journal Article RefID:10393-hughes2015economic Hughes,David W.;Isengildina-Massa,Olga The economic impact of farmers' markets and a state level locally grown campaign Food Policy 2015 54 78 84 Economic impact analysis;Local food policy;Opportunity cost;Promotion campaign evaluation;Regional economic growth;Social account matrix This study evaluates the direct and indirect economic impact of farmers market and the Certified South Carolina Grown Campaign as transmitted through farmers markets on the South Carolina Economy. We developed an IMPLAN-based SAM model of the South Carolina economy that takes into account the opportunity cost of money spent at farmers' markets to estimate the net as opposed to gross impact of the campaign on the state economy. Our results indicate that the Certified South Carolina Grown Campaign (an example of a widely used "buy local foods" policies) does not make a major contribution to the state economy. Our findings suggest that policy makers need to augment buy local campaigns with other efforts, such as a value-added processing of regionally produced foods, if such policies are to serve as a means of generating economic growth. Elsevier Ltd http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.05.001 10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.05.001 Journal Article RefID:10392-lang2010valueformoney Lang,Tim From 'value-for-money' to 'values-for-money'? Ethical food and policy in Europe Environment and Planning A Environ.Plann.A 2010 42 8 1814 1832 The author considers how ethical food raises complex challenges for policy makers. Looking mainly at Europe and developed countries, it is suggested that the notion of ethical food is plastic, but that therein lie its strength and appeal. Civil society movements see it as a rallying point to restructure food systems, from land use to consumption. The mainstream corporate sector sees ethical food as an umbrella term under which many, sometimes even competing, aspirations nestle, but which can be incorporated as additional niche markets. Far from being new, the ethical-food banner in the late 20th century has resurrected some older traditions, including those which contested power relations in the food system. But in the 21st century, with the world's food system under economic, environmental, social, and political stress, the ethical-food umbrella faces an uncertain future. It could be submerged by 'value-for-money' consumerism; or it could become a champion of what the author calls an emerging set of 'omnistandards', under which fragmented single issues coalesce and articulate a new paradigm. 0308-518X 10.1068/a4258 Journal Article RefID:10391-kallio2020carrot Kallio,Galina A carrot isn’t a carrot isn’t a carrot: tracing value in alternative practices of food exchange Agriculture and Human Values 2020 37 4 1095 1109 Alternative food practices;Ethnography;Food collectives;Practice-based approach;Value Questions of value are central to understanding alternative practices of food exchange. This study introduces a practice-based approach to value that challenges the dominant views, which capture value as either an input for or an outcome of practices of exchange (value as values, standards, or prices). Building on a longitudinal ethnographic study on food collectives, I show how value, rather than residing in something that people share, or in something that objects have, is an ideal target that continuously unfolds and evolves in action. I found that people organized their food collectives around pursuing three kinds of value-ideals, namely good food, good price and good community. These value-ideals became reproduced in food collectives through what I identified as valuing modes, by which people evaluated the goodness of food, prices and community. My analysis revealed that, while participating in food collectives in order to pursue their value-ideals, people were likely to have differing reasons for pursuing them and tended to attach different meanings to the same value-ideal. I argue that understanding how value as an ideal target is reproduced through assessing and assigning value (valuing modes) is essential in further explorations of the formation of value and in better understanding the dynamics of organizing alternative practices of food exchange. Springer Netherlands 0123456789 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-020-10113-w 10.1007/s10460-020-10113-w Journal Article RefID:10390-baron2019relationships Baron,Haley;Dimitri,Carolyn Relationships along the organic supply chain British Food Journal Br.Food J. 2019 121 3 771 786 Buyer–seller relationships;Organic marketing;Supply chain;USA Purpose: Since the implementation of the National Organic Program in 2002, the US organic market has grown in both scale and scope, consequently placing pressure on the organic supply chain. The crucial role of matching consumer demand for final products with farm-level production falls to certified organic handlers, the intermediary firms that process, manufacture and distribute organic products. Locating certified organic commodities and products that meet their needs, in a timely manner, is costly and challenging. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed-methods study was designed to better understand organic sector supply chain relationships in the USA. Data were collected from certified organic handlers via survey and semi-structured interviews. Those interviewed were randomly selected from 153 survey respondents who expressed an interest in being interviewed. This paper presents an analysis of interviews with 26 certified organic handlers regarding the relationships with their suppliers. Findings: Three key concepts characterize the relationships between handlers and their suppliers: closeness, support and commitment. Nearly all handler supplier relationships possess some degree of closeness, where the handler expresses interest in their supplier. The relationships follow a spectrum of intensity, where the least engaged handlers provide little support and commitment, and the most engaged handlers provide support and commitment through a long-term relationship or contract. Originality/value: Research into the organic supply chain is challenging to undertake, given the proprietary nature of the relationships. As the organic market continues to grow, the relationships along the supply chain will need to evolve to allow firms to meet consumer demand. 10.1108/BFJ-11-2018-0779 Journal Article RefID:10389-yacamán2018el Yacamán Ochoa,Carolina El Parque Agrario: Planificación estratégica para la preservación y gestión de los espacios agrarios metropolitanos Ciudad y Territorio.Estudios Territoriales. 2018 198 787 804 agricultura periurbana;gobernanza;multifuncionalidad;parque agrario;planificación The Agrarian Park is being consolidated in recent years as a key tool for the protection and management of periurban agricultural spaces from a systemic, multifunctional and strategic perspective. Given the great diversity of theoretical approaches and practices, this text aims to address a critical review of it and investigate their strengths for implementation in metropolitan environments, for which recent scientific contributions are analyzed and empirical results are collected of the case study of the Agrarian Park of Fuenlabrada located in the metropolitan region of Madrid. Journal Article RefID:10388-holloway2007food Holloway,Lewis;Kneafsey,Moya;Venn,Laura;Cox,Rosie;Dowler,Elizabeth;Tuomainen,Helena Possible food economies: A methodological framework for exploring food production-consumption relationships Sociologia Ruralis 2007 47 1 1 19 Modes of food production-consumption defined as 'alternative' have received considerable academic attention, with studies exploring both their potential for contributing to rural development strategies and the opportunities they provide for countering established power relations in food supply systems. However, the use of the term 'alternative' as part of a persistent dualism in which it is opposed to the 'conventional' is problematic as it loses sight of the specificity of different examples food production-consumption. Based on extensive field research with a series of very different food projects, this article develops a methodological framework which structures a description of how specific examples of food production-consumption are organised with reference to a series of analytical fields. This framework retains a sense of the diversity and particularity of particular cases of production-consumption, and directs attention to the particular locations of resistance to prevalent power relations in food systems that are made possible through different food projects. 1467-9523 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2007.00427.x Journal Article RefID:10387-moragues-faus2017emancipatory Moragues-Faus,Ana Emancipatory or Neoliberal Food Politics? Exploring the "Politics of Collectivity" of Buying Groups in the Search for Egalitarian Food Democracies Antipode 2017 49 2 455 476 R;REPE In the context of apolitical tendencies in food studies, this paper explores how alternative food networks can contribute to developing emancipatory food politics rather than constitute a tool to reproduce neoliberal subjectivities. For this purpose, I contend that the post-political literature offers a useful approach to examining the concept of food politics by developing a more robust theoretical framework, permitting the establishment of linkages with broader contemporary processes of social change. The analysis of an action-research process with buying groups in Spain is used to examine the "politics of collectivity" at play, that is, how these initiatives institutionalise "the political". Specifically I explore the motivations mobilised to construct place-based ethical repertoires and unveil how these groups govern the relationality of consumption practices in the pursuit of broader processes of change. I conclude by discussing the contribution of these initiatives to building egalitarian food democracies. 10.1111/anti.12274 Journal Article RefID:10386-gonzález-romero2021territorio González-Romero,Gema;Cánovas-García,Fulgencio Territorio y redes alimentarias alternativas: experiencias en la ciudad de Sevilla Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica 2021 67 3 389 415 Sevilla;acción colectiva;alimentaria;ciudadanía;ciudadanía alimentaria;espacios económicos alternativos;redes alimentarias alternativas Las redes alimentarias alternativas son un fenómeno de marcado carácter urbano con una expansión significativa durante las primeras décadas del siglo XXI. Se vinculan a movimientos ciudadanos en respuesta a los impactos socioeconómicos, ambientales y territoriales de un régimen alimentario globalizado y financiarizado, así como a la creciente preocupación por la seguridad y la calidad alimentarias. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar dichas redes en Sevilla, prestando especial atención a sus implicaciones territoriales, aspecto poco tratado hasta ahora en la literatura que aborda esta temática. Se ha aplicado una metodología mixta: cualitativa (entrevistas semiestructuradas y observación virtual) y cuantitativa (bases de datos y redes sociales). En Sevilla, las iniciativas vinculadas a redes alimentarias alternativas están arraigadas en determinados barrios y sus implicaciones territoriales sobrepasan el ámbito periurbano. Pese a sus limitaciones, no puede dejar de valorarse su capacidad para generar proyectos colectivos en favor de un sistema alimentario más justo y sostenible. 10.5565/rev/dag.660 Journal Article RefID:10385-michel-villarreal2019sustainability Michel-Villarreal,Rosario;Hingley,Martin;Canavari,Maurizio;Bregoli,Ilenia Sustainability in Alternative Food Networks: A systematic literature review Sustainability (Switzerland) 2019 11 3 Alternative food networks;Sustainability;Systematic literature review In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to individuals' organizing themselves and managing food systems in an 'alternative' and more sustainable way. Such emerging food initiatives are most commonly known as 'Alternative Food Networks' (AFNs). However, there is an ongoing debate concerning the extent to which AFNs facilitate social, economic and environmental change. There are criticisms of the overall sustainability promise of AFNs related to sufficiency of impact, possible counter effects and the relevance of impacts. Because empirical studies often only focus on specific sustainability issues or AFNs, it has been difficult to develop more robust theories about the relations between diverse AFNs arrangements and sustainability. Thus, the aim of this paper is to contribute towards reducing this knowledge gap through a systematic literature review on AFNs in relation to sustainability. We summarize main methodological approaches, the types of AFNs studied and sustainability dimensions addressed in literature to date. Findings serve as reference to propose opportunities for future research regarding sustainability in AFNs. 10.3390/su11030859 Journal Article RefID:10384-duncan2017mapping Duncan,Jessica;Pascucci,Stefano Mapping the Organisational Forms of Networks of Alternative Food Networks: Implications for Transition Sociologia Ruralis 2017 57 3 316 339 In response to the failures of the dominant agro-food regime multiple practices for transition towards more environmentally and socially sustainable food systems have been proposed and put into practice by Alternative Food Networks (AFNs). To advance societal transitions, some AFNs have employed a strategy of developing broader networks. These network of networks, take various forms. To date, the ways in which networks of AFNs organise remains understudied, yet how they organise is likely to influence the transition pathways they advance. Drawing on organisation theory we propose a typology of organisational forms for networks of AFNs. We theorise that networks of AFNS that adopt organisational forms that are isomorphic to the dominant food regime may have their practices adopted, but that these risk co-option and dilution. Networks of AFNs that organise around polymorphic organisational forms are less likely to see their practices integrated at the dominant regime level, but their practices could have a more fundamental transformative impact. 10.1111/soru.12167 Journal Article RefID:10383-magnaghi2016el Magnaghi,A. El proyecto de la biorregión como alternativa a la crisis urbana Boletín ECOS 2016 36 1 9 Journal Article RefID:10382-tornaghi2014critical Tornaghi,Chiara Critical geography of urban agriculture Progress in Human Geography Prog.Hum.Geogr. 2014 38 4 551 567 critical geography;food-growing;social justice;urban agriculture;urban gardening Urban agriculture is a broad term which describes food cultivation and animal husbandry on urban and peri-urban land. Grassroots as well as institution-led urban agricultural projects are currently mushrooming in the cities of the Global North, reshaping urban landscapes, experimenting with alternatives to the capitalist organization of urban life and sometimes establishing embryonic forms of recreating the Commons. While this renewed interest in land cultivation and food production is attracting increasing interest in a wide range of disciplines - from planning to landscape and cultural studies - it remains a very marginal and almost unexplored field of human geography. Nonetheless, beyond the rhetoric of sustainability and health, urban agriculture raises several relevant questions of interest for a critical geographer. Starting by drawing a map of concepts and theories available in an interdisciplinary literature, and highlighting fields of possible inquiry, this paper aims to define the scope of and an initial agenda for a critical geography of urban agriculture. © The Author(s) 2014. 10.1177/0309132513512542 Journal Article RefID:10381-sonnino2006divide Sonnino,Roberta;Marsden,Terry Beyond the divide: Rethinking relationships between alternative and conventional food networks in Europe Journal of Economic Geography 2006 6 2 181 199 Alternative food networks;Embeddedness;Re-localization of agri-food;Rural development In this paper, we develop the burgeoning research agenda on alternative food networks in Europe. Through the concept of 'embeddedness', we argue for a much more nuanced and complex understanding of the relationships between conventional and alternative food chains-and, by extension, of their implications for rural development. Rather than viewing alternative and conventional food networks as separate spheres, we see them as highly competitive and as relational to one another and argue for the need to examine the links more critically. In particular, we highlight the need to explore the competitive relationships that alternative food networks have with the conventional sector to expose power imbalances and the effect these may have on wider rural development processes. 1468-2702 10.1093/jeg/lbi006 Journal Article RefID:10380-hernández2020alternativa Hernández,José Luis Sánchez;Ana Espinosa Seguí ¿Alternativa o adaptación? Los gruoos de consumo de alimentos eco en el área de Alicante Scripta Nova 2020 24 638 1 13 abstract;american;american countries;américa latina;characterize the behaviors in;from the analysis of;group of features that;it is;land management in latin;management of 15 latin;ordenación del territorio;possible to detect a;said countries in this;the politics of land Los grupos de consumo ecológico constituyen una modalidad de coordinación entre pro- ductores y consumidores que suscriben los principios de la agroecología y la soberanía ali- mentaria. Aunque se trata de una opción minoritaria dentro del nicho de mercado de los alimentos ecológicos, algunos de ellos están creciendo en número de socios y volumen de actividad durante los últimos años. Esta expansión cuantitativa se relaciona con la entrada de miembros interesados por el cuidado de la salud a través de la alimentación, contras- tando con los objetivos de transformación social y política impulsados con la fundación de estos grupos de consumo. El artículo constata este proceso de neo-convencionalización de las prácticas alimentarias alternativas en el área metropolitana de Alicante (España). Book, Whole RefID:10379-2018políticas Fundación Entretantos Políticas alimentarias urbanas para la sostenibilidad. Análisis de experiencias en el Estado español en un contexto internacional 2018 El presente informe ha sido elaborado por la Fundación Entretantos, con el apoyo de la Red de Ciudades por la Agroecología y la Fundación RUAF. Consiste en el estudio comparado de políticas alimentarias desarrolladas en once ciudades integradas en dicha Red. El análisis se ha realizado en base a cuestionarios respondidos por responsables técnicos de las políticas alimentarias en cada ciudad, entrevistas personales a este personal técnico, análisis de documentación de trabajo elaborada en el marco de la Red de Ciudades por la Agroecología. La discusión de los resultados obtenidos se ha emprendido a partir de la revisión bibliográfica de estudios previos sobre políticas alimentarias urbanas en el ámbito internacional, así como a partir de la asistencia a eventos de ámbito nacional e internacional relacionados con las políticas alimentarias urbana Journal Article RefID:10378-poças2021organising Poças Ribeiro,Ana;Harmsen,Robert;Feola,Giuseppe;Rosales Carréon,Jesús;Worrell,Ernst Organising Alternative Food Networks (AFNs): Challenges and Facilitating Conditions of different AFN types in three EU countries Sociologia Ruralis 2021 61 2 491 517 alternative food networks;categorization of AFNs;challenges;cross-country comparison;power;short food supply chains This study aimed to explore the constraining and facilitating factors impacting the emergence and consolidation of different types of alternative food networks (AFNs) in different countries. Drawing on the expertise of organizers of seventeen AFNs, we investigated the conditions and actors that hinder and promote the development of different types of AFNs in Poland, Portugal and the Netherlands. Using a multi-actor perspective framework, we categorized six types of AFNs according to their logic and characteristics: consumer-led, producer-led, third-sector led, community supported agriculture, public-led, and business platforms. Key challenges and facilitating conditions varied according to AFN type, and depended on AFN particularities. In contrast to the Netherlands, low social capital was commonly cited as a challenge in Portugal and Poland. AFN organizers appeared to exercise innovative power when creating new forms of food provision; however, a wide scope of actions by governmental and non-governmental actors are needed to support the emergence of more AFNs. 10.1111/soru.12331 Journal Article RefID:10377-introna2015review Introna,Lucas D.;Wood,David Review of CSA in Europe 2015 2 2-3 177 198 icle Frage von Bias 8085889153 http://urgenci.net/the-csa-research-group/ Journal Article RefID:10376-gonzález2021agroecology González,Manuel;Molina,De;Lopez-Garcia,Daniel Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wjsa21 Principles for designing Agroecology-based Local (territorial) Agri-food Systems: a critical revision Principles for designing Agroecology-based Local (territorial) Agri-food Systems: a critical revision, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 2021 https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=wjsa21 10.1080/21683565.2021.1913690 Journal Article RefID:10375-gonzalez2021principles Gonzalez De Molina,Manuel;Lopez-Garcia,Daniel;González De Molina,M.;Lopez-Garcia,Daniel Principles for designing Agroecology-based Local (territorial) Agri-food Systems: a critical revision Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems 2021 45 7 1050 1082 R;REPE Alternative food systems and networks, which have emerged around the world, are often fragmentary, reduced in size and frequently unfold in parallel, hardly linked to each other. Agroecology faces the challenge of scaling up these initiatives to gain size and a significant impact on food production and consumption. Within the agroecological movement, however, diverse conceptions exist of what a sustainable food system should be. It is thus necessary to reach an extensive consensus, from the perspective of agroecology, on the principles guiding the construction of such a system. This paper discusses the principles that would best steer the building of Agroecology-based Local Agri-food Systems (ALAS). To this end, a critical review of the scientific literature on alternative food networks and systems was performed. In so doing, we highlighted the aspects that one could consider as purely agroecological in nature and sought to bring them together to form a coherent proposal. Consequently, the present paper systematizes the main contributions of literature on alternative food networks and systems, taking into account the characteristics of sustainability from an agroecology viewpoint, and identifies the issues requiring further development. Several principles are proposed to define local food systems, based on the four dimensions of sustainability: environmental health, economic viability, social equity and the right to decide what, how and for whom food is produced. 10.1080/21683565.2021.1913690 Generic RefID:10374-lópez-garcía2021operational López-García,Daniel;de Molina,Manuel González An operational approach to agroecology-based local agri-food systems Sustainability 2021 13 8443 1 18 Agroecological transitions;Agroecology scaling;Political agroecology;Sustainable food systems In recent years, the transition to sustainability at a food systems’ scale has drawn major attention both from the scientific and political arenas. Agroecology has become central to such discussions, while impressive efforts have been made to conceptualize the agroecology scaling process. It has thus become necessary to apply the concept of agroecology transitions to the scale of food systems and in different “real-world” contexts. Scaling local agroecology experiences of production, distribution, and consumption, which are often disconnected and/or disorganized, also reveals emergent research gaps. A critical review was performed in order to establish a transdisciplinary dialogue between both political agroecology and the literature on sustainable food systems. The objective was to build insights into how to advance towards Agroecology-based Local Agri-food Systems (ALAS). Our review unveils emergent questions such as: how to overcome the metabolic rift related to segregated activities along the food chain, how to feed cities sustainably, and how they should relate to the surrounding territories, which social subjects should drive such transitions, and which governance arrangements would be needed. The paper argues in favor of the re-construction of food metabolisms, territorial flows, plural subjects and (bottom-up) governance assemblages, placing life at the center of the food system and going beyond the rural–urban divide. TY: GEN https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158443 10.3390/su13158443 Journal Article RefID:10373-sanz-cañada2018politics Sanz-Cañada,Javier;Belletti,Giovanni;Lagoma,Cristina Politics and territorial governance of food consumer groups in the District of Lavapiés, Madrid Ager 2018 2018 25 65 97 Agro-ecology;Consumer groups;Lavapiés;Politics;Territorial governance The article aims to characterise the organisational model and the discourse of the food consumer groups located in Lavapiés, a district in central Madrid (Spain), in order to test whether these groups can be conceptualised as forms of political and social innovation based on the principle of cooperation between producers and consumers. The methodology consists of an empirical study based upon semi-structured interviews with a prominent member of each of Lavapiés’ consumer groups. An inductive coding and an analysis of co-occurrences were conducted in order to process the qualitative information. We verify the hypothesis that these groups constitute an example of construction of self-organised alternative social networks based upon the concept that food consumption can be considered to constitute a political choice, contributing to creating agro-ecological alternative models of food production and consumption. Territorial governance of consumer groups involves the existence of close links with a dense social network embedded in the neighbourhood of Lavapiés, and with Madrid’s agro-ecological movement. 10.4422/ager.2018.16 Journal Article RefID:10372-rojo2019weak Rojo,M. S.;Couceiro-Arroyo,A.;Farina-Tojo,J. Weak Food System Relocation: Disconnection Between Territorial Agents and Spatial Planning Urbano 2019 22 39 106 126 Madrid;Vega Bajo Jarama;food governance;food system relocation;public policies;spatial planning Interest in local food networks and the reconnection between production and consumption has been growing since the mid 1980s. The goal of relocation has come to permeate urban agendas, and research, proposals and recommendations have increased which posit the importance of territorial planning and the spatial plans to relocate food systems. However, neither the agricultural sector nor the agents that effectively manage territories perceive the spatial and management component as a relevant factor. The ArimNET DIVERCROP project analyzed the Vega Baja del Jarama zone near the Madrid metropolitan area. Participatory methodologies were used to work with agents from the agrarian and research sectors, and from local institutions, as well as with social economy entities and social movements. The results of the research show that these agents have the desire and will to restore horticultural and livestock production and link it to local markets, but the role of urban and territorial planning plans, at different scales, remains outside their imagination. They do not identify the spatial plans as elements that have a bearing on achieving their objectives, beyond traditionally defensive strategies against plans for the expansion of artificial soils, infrastructures and extractive activities. FU - ANR (France)French National Research Agency (ANR); IRESA (Tunisia); INIA (Spain)Instituto de Investigacion Agropecuaria (INIA); FCT (Portugal)Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; ATRSNV (Algeria); MIPAAF (Italy); MCST (Malta); H2020 Seventh Program Framework of the European Union 618127] FX - The results presented are from the research carried out within GIAU+S (UPM) as part of the DIVERCROP project, financed in the ARIMNET2 2016 call by the following agencies: ANR (France), IRESA (Tunisia), INIA (Spain), FCT (Portugal), ATRSNV (Algeria), MIPAAF (Italy) and MCST (Malta). ARIMNet2 (ERA-NET) receives financing from the H2020 Seventh Program Framework of the European Union with the Grant Agreement No 618127. NR - 27 PU - UNIV BIO-BIO, DEPT PLANIFICACION & DISENO PI - CONCEPCION PA - AVE COLLAO NO 1202 CASILLA 5-C, CONCEPCION, 00000, CHILE Journal Article RefID:10371-van2021political van der Ploeg,Jan Douwe The political economy of agroecology Journal of Peasant Studies 2021 48 2 274 297 Agroecology;autonomy;conventionalization;labour process analysis;social relations of production This paper examines agroecology within Europe, its dynamics, its position within a broader politico-economic framework and its political significance. It argues that agroecology is contesting and, at least in some places, effectively changing the main social relations of production in today’s agriculture. In this respect, it has a strategically important potential for allowing farmers to regain control over the labour process. Empirically, the paper builds on the case of the Northern Frisian Woodlands, a large territorial cooperative that, has been developing a range of agroecological practices, and (often successfully) advocating for their more widespread adoption. 10.1080/03066150.2020.1725489 Journal Article RefID:10370-mundler2016contributions Mundler,Patrick;Laughrea,Sophie The contributions of short food supply chains to territorial development: A study of three Quebec territories Journal of Rural Studies J.Rural Stud. 2016 45 218 229 Local food systems;Short food supply chains;Sustainable food system;Territorial development Short food supply chains (SFSCs) have undergone significant developments for roughly a decade, spurring the interest of producers, consumers and governments. A thorough review of the literature shows the various economic, social and environmental benefits associated with SFSCs across much of Europe and North America. However, these benefits have generally been analyzed in isolation from each other, with very few studies attempting to characterize them as a whole in a systemic fashion.This article aims to evaluate the contributions of SFSCs to territorial development in three contrasting Quebec territories. For this, we developed a model that is organized around four dimensions that are interlinked through systemic relations: farmers' welfare, local development, welfare of the community, and environmental protection. For each of these dimensions, we determined criteria and indicators in order to compare, whenever possible, the results obtained in this research with the available provincial data.Overall, our results show that, when considering the indicators chosen for this research, SFSCs mostly have a positive effect on the three territories targeted by our research. The most positive aspects of these systems are job creation, skills development for farmers, job satisfaction, and the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices. The most neutral elements relate to revenues for farmers engaged in SFSCs, the economic weight of SFSCs within the local economy, the influence of SFSCs on the access to fresh and healthy food, and their effects on social cohesion. Elsevier Ltd http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.04.001 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.04.001 Journal Article RefID:10369-aramendi2020food Aramendi,Aintzira Oñederra;Zubillaga,Mirene Begiristain;Zaldua,Eduardo Malagón The food hub sareko: Learnings from the upscaling governance processes of alternative agro-food networks Estudios Geograficos 2020 81 289 Agro-ecology;Food hubs;Gipuzkoa;Governance systems;Hybrid governance;Innovation processes;Systematization;Upscaling up The local consequences of the agri-food globalization, the needs of upscaling the agro-ecological food production and marketing experiences and their intrinsic power relationships, evidence the opportunity of reflection and debate on the construction of governance systems and strategies that enhance social practices and sustainable organizations for producers and consumers, through the creation of Alternative Agro-Food Networks. We describe the Food Hub Sareko, an innovative experience in the field of commercialization of agro-ecological food that supply the restaurants of the city of Donostia, Gipuzkoa. Through a methodology based on Participatory Action Research, we use a process systematization in order to analyze the information collected along the dynamization process, making a collective critical reflection on the facts and decisions taken. The main results confirm that upscaling must rely on hybrid initiatives. For building trust among the participants, it is necessary to pay attention on communication and bargaining within the network. Cooperation among actors and the emerging organizational structure become key factors to build the identity of the Food Hub. The collaborative partnerships, defined as “strategic alliances”, and the processes based on consensus decision-making are necessary to redistribute the value throughout the food chain. 0000000299 10.3989/ESTGEOGR.202066.066 Journal Article RefID:10368-allaire2021alternative Allaire,Gilles Alternative Food Networks and the Socialization of Food 2021 221 235 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. Alternativeness and localness are not clearly defined. However, the concept of AFN covers a wide variety of phenomena related to product qualifications: organic, fair trade, geographical indications, and regional, local, artisanal, natural, ethnic, and premium specialties. It also covers phenomena related to market social infrastructures, from transnational standards to a variety of local food. This chapter puts the analysis of the development of AFNs in the historical perspective of industrialization and socialization of food, by addressing several theoretical propositions: food regimes approach, conventionalization and commodification debates, and nested markets. These analyses cause one to rethink markets as social spaces. We propose a conceptual framework which considers markets as control projects, quality as social order, and regimes of competition as market social infrastructures. Alternative dynamics appear to participate in a shift from an industrial market regime (modern socialization) to a media market regime (neoliberal socialization). 9783030616199 10.1007/978-3-030-61619-9_15 Journal Article RefID:10367-witzling2020role Witzling,Laura;Shaw,Bret R.;Strader,Claire;Sedlak,Carrie;Jones,Erika The role of community: CSA member retention British Food Journal Br.Food J. 2020 122 7 2289 2302 Brand loyalty;Community supported agriculture;Local food;Sense of community Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to better understand motivations for CSA participation with an emphasis on membership retention. Food-related and community-related motivations for participation were examined. Design/methodology/approach: Current and former CSA members across Wisconsin completed an online survey. Participants were grouped based on their CSA membership status. The four groups were as follows: Keepers (current members planning to renew their membership with their current farm); Switchers (current members planning to switch their membership to a new farm); Stoppers (current members planning to stop purchasing a CSA share from any farm) and Formers (former CSA members). The groups were compared through ANOVA. Findings: Keepers had stronger community-related motivations, and they had more favorable perceptions about communication with their CSA farm. Food-related motivations were reduced among Stoppers but were similar among Keepers and Switchers. Research limitations/implications: This study used online purposive sampling; thus, generalizability of results is limited. Switchers were identified as a distinct group that trends younger and appears more willing to change CSA farms but is committed to CSA because of food-related motivations. Practical implications: Investment by CSA farmers in community building may improve member retention. They may achieve this, in part, through communication with members that taps into factors related to community, such as offering support and making emotional connections. Offering exemplary product is broadly important to keep individuals committed to CSA, but it does not uniquely keep individuals invested in a particular CSA farm the way community-related motivations may. Originality/value: This is the first analysis to highlight differences between individuals who plan to renew their membership with their current CSA farm, those who plan to switch CSA farms and those who plan to stop purchasing CSA. 10.1108/BFJ-09-2019-0727 Journal Article RefID:10366-segrelles2015agricultura Segrelles Serrano,José Antonio Agricultura periurbana, parques naturales agrarios y mercados agropecuarios locales: Una respuesta territorial y productiva a la subordinación del campo a la ciudad Scripta Nova 2015 19 Agricultural Natural Parks;Family farming;Local market;Local markets for farm produce and livestock;Peri-urban agriculture The traditional subordination of the countryside to the city has been given an unusual emphasis over the past decades due to growing urban expansion carried out essentially by large and medium-sized metropolitan areas. The peri-urban areas are those most affected by the adverse impact of the pressure of urban functions, creating tensions and conflicts that end up marginalising the family farming practiced in these spaces. Over the course of time, peri-urban agriculture has created a valuable environmental and cultural heritage that is worth preserving. In this context the Agricultural Natural Park emerges as a strong safeguard of sustainable farming and livestock activity and the driving force behind an efficient, profitable agricultural use of peri-urban spaces, which will also generate a high added value. This type of agriculture, which is respectful of the environment in urban peripheries, makes it possible to establish a local agricultural food market, leading to the consumption of local, seasonal produce and greater food safety. 10.1344/sn2015.19.15107 Journal Article RefID:10365-diekmann2019structures Diekmann,Marie;Theuvsen,Ludwig Value structures determining community supported agriculture: insights from Germany Agriculture and Human Values 2019 36 4 733 746 Community supported agriculture;Environmental consciousness;Grassroots movement;Social sustainability;Values of CSA members In recent years Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), an innovative grassroots movement connecting consumers with a local farm, has rapidly spread across Germany and other industrialized countries. An increasing number of consumers who are dissatisfied with conventional food supply chains have signed up to receive fresh produce, support a local community and protect the environment. So far little is known, though, about the underlying value structures of CSA. Nevertheless, identifying factors influencing consumers’ interest in CSA is regarded as a major aim of contemporary CSA research. This research aims to provide insights into CSA members’ value structures, and delineates CSA members by comparing their value structures to those of the German population in general. Schwartz’s Portrait Value Questionnaire was used in a standardized online survey of CSA members to mirror the dataset which is available to the German public via the European Social Survey. A total sample of 205 CSA members was used to examine common value structures by comparing them with the German public. This study’s findings strongly indicate that a CSA membership goes along with a characteristic value pattern: CSA members highly appreciate self-transcendence and openness to change, but tend to reject conservation and self-enhancement values. Addressing members’ preference for openness to change and self-transcendence may help CSAs to reduce fluctuation rates. It might also enhance CSA marketing strategy by addressing potential members’ interests more precisely. Therefore, identifying and communicating common values of a CSA might be a key factor in determining its long-term success and stability. Springer Netherlands 0123456789 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09950-1 10.1007/s10460-019-09950-1 Journal Article RefID:10364-spijker2020grasping Spijker,Stephanie Nuria;Mathijs,Erik;Parra,Constanza Grasping practices of self-reliance within alternative foodscapes in Flanders Agriculture and Human Values 2020 37 3 819 832 Alternative foodscapes;Community supported agriculture;Flanders;Foodscapes;Hobby farming;Permaculture;Practices;Prepping;Self-reliance;Social innovation;Social practice theory;Transition towns;Values Foodscapes, the ways and places in which human beings interact with food, are dominated by the global agri-food system. In many ways, it has never been easier to access such varieties or quantities of food. Be it in restaurants, supermarkets or local markets, food is often only a quick purchase away from the plate. In spite of that, there are persons who choose to follow alternative paths, moving away from reliance on the conventional system by engaging in practices of food self-reliance. In this paper, using the analytical lenses of behavioural, social innovation and social practice theories, we explore why and how people strive for self-reliance and self-governing their foodscapes. We apply these lenses to data gathered from site visits and in-depth interviews with those engaged in self-reliant practices in Flanders. The practices we encountered range from permaculture to transition towns and illustrate the diverse alternative foodscapes found in Flanders. Our research reveals that while practices—and the people who engage in them—may at first appear distinct, they have commonalities as well, including similar values, needs, goals and more. These diverse elements combine to create, reshape and sustain practices within foodscapes. By further understanding the motivational, biogeophysical and social underpinnings that enable them we reveal a diverse, yet connected, continuum of practices. Springer Netherlands 0123456789 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-020-10021-z 10.1007/s10460-020-10021-z Journal Article RefID:10363-delind2011local DeLind,Laura B. Are local food and the local food movement taking us where we want to go? Or are we hitching our wagons to the wrong stars? Agriculture and Human Values 2011 28 2 273 283 Ethnography;Local food;Local food movement;Locavores;Regenerative food system Much is being made of local food. It is at once a social movement, a diet, and an economic strategy-a popular solution-to a global food system in great distress. Yet, despite its popularity or perhaps because of it, local food (especially in the US) is also something of a chimera if not a tool of the status quo. This paper reflects on and contrasts aspects of current local food rhetoric with Dalhberg's notion of a regenerative food system. It identifies three problematic emphases-the locavore emphasis, the Wal-Mart emphasis, and the Pollan emphasis-and argues that they are shifting local food (as a concept and a social movement) away from the deeper concerns of equity, citizenship, place-building, and sustainability. It is suggested that local food activists and advocates might consider the use of multiple methodologies and forms of expression to explore the integration and reintegration of local food into diverse and redundant place-based practice. A short case study of a low-income, urban neighborhood in Lansing, Michigan, illustrates the value of contextual analysis for more fully enabling the local food movement and a regenerative food system. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 10.1007/s10460-010-9263-0 Journal Article RefID:10362-born2006avoiding Born,Branden;Purcell,Mark Avoiding the local trap: Scale and food systems in planning research Journal of Planning Education and Research 2006 26 2 195 207 Food systems;Scale A strong current of food-systems research holds that local food systems are preferable to systems at larger scales. Many assume that eating local food is more ecologically sustainable and socially just. We term this the local trap and argue strongly against it. We draw on current scale theory in political and economic geography to argue that local food systems are no more likely to be sustainable or just than systems at other scales. The theory argues that scale is socially produced: scales (and their interrelations) are not independent entities with inherent qualities but strategies pursued by social actors with a particular agenda. It is the content of that agenda, not the scales themselves, that produces outcomes such as sustainability or justice. As planners move increasingly into food-systems research, we argue it is critical to avoid the local trap. The article's theoretical approach to scale offers one way to do so. © 2006 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. 10.1177/0739456X06291389 Journal Article RefID:10361-coley2009local Coley,David;Howard,Mark;Winter,Michael Local food, food miles and carbon emissions: A comparison of farm shop and mass distribution approaches Food Policy 2009 34 2 150 155 Carbon emissions;Food distribution;Food miles;Sustainable food system This paper provides a critical commentary on the conception of food miles followed by an empirical application of food miles to two contrasting food distribution systems based on carbon emissions accounting within these systems. The comparison is between the carbon emissions resultant from operating a large-scale vegetable box system and those from a supply system where the customer travels to a local farm shop. The study is based on fuel and energy use data collected from one of the UK's largest suppliers of organic produce. The findings suggest that if a customer drives a round-trip distance of more than 6.7 km in order to purchase their organic vegetables, their carbon emissions are likely to be greater than the emissions from the system of cold storage, packing, transport to a regional hub and final transport to customer's doorstep used by large-scale vegetable box suppliers. Consequently some of the ideas behind localism in the food sector may need to be revisited. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Elsevier Ltd http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2008.11.001 10.1016/j.foodpol.2008.11.001 Journal Article RefID:10360-świader2018foodshed Świader,Malgorzata;Szewrański,Szymon;Kazak,Jan K. Foodshed as an example of preliminary research for conducting environmental carrying capacity analysis Sustainability (Switzerland) 2018 10 3 Environmental carrying capacity;Foodshed;Spatial management;Sustainability;Urban environment Since the 1960s, we have had to face challenging problems in relation to uncontrolled urban development, the destruction of farmlands, and the need to protect natural resources. These challenges are still valid, particularly since dynamic increases in population, especially in cities, have created an increasing need for natural resources. Therefore, the spatial management of the city should take into account the actual use of resources by its inhabitants, as well as the availability of resources within a city and its surrounding suburban areas. Such surveys could be conducted in order to ensure that the basic needs and safety of the residents are met, i.e., in the context of food security. Thus, we recommend a tool that allows specifying the geographical area of food supply: the foodshed. We determined the foodshed based on the relationship between the places of food production and its consumption. Therefore, we delimitated the extent of foodshed area for the city of Wroclaw, which reached ca. 56 km. Our work expanded the determination of foodshed boundaries by the delimitation of the city's foodshed zones, and provided a more detailed analysis of the obtained product data. We obtained data about 98 places of food origin, 448 products, and 115 types of products. This analysis was conducted using Tableau Software (Seattle, WA, USA) and Dell Statistica Software (Round Rock, TX, USA), and the food zone was mapped using ArcGIS Software (Redlands, CA, USA). The main goal of the study was to present a framework for foodshed assessment that could be integrated into other analyses of a city's sustainability in the context of environmental carrying capacity, and the development of the spatial management of a city in a more sustainable way. This preliminary analysis was carried out in order to emphasize the need for conducting an environmental carrying capacity analysis for the city. 10.3390/su10030882 Journal Article RefID:10359-verain2021sustainable Verain,Muriel C. D.;Snoek,Harriette M.;Onwezen,Marleen C.;Reinders,Machiel J.;Bouwman,Emily P. Sustainable food choice motives: The development and cross-country validation of the Sustainable Food Choice Questionnaire (SUS-FCQ) Food Quality and Preference 2021 93 104267 Food Choice Motives;SUS-FCQ;Sustainability;Sustainable Food Choice Questionnaire;Validation In view of all kinds of sustainability concerns related to our current diet, it is essential to gain a good understanding of the sustainability motives consumers have for selecting their food. A comprehensive and validated scale to measure sustainability motives within the full range of food choice motives could contribute to this understanding, especially as sustainability is a multi-faceted concept in which the different aspects can sometimes be conflicting. The current paper aims to 1) develop the Sustainable Food Choice Questionnaire (SUS-FCQ) that covers the full concept of sustainability, 2) test which dimensions of sustainable food choice motives can be distinguished and 3) validate the scale as part of the Food Choice Questionnaire in multiple countries. An online survey was completed by 5,116 respondents from five European countries (The Netherlands, Denmark, Czech Republic, France and Italy). The scale was developed with a Dutch sub-sample and validated in all included countries. Exploratory factor analysis followed by confirmatory factor analyses resulted in a two-factor solution. A ‘general sustainability’ dimension (6 items, covering environmental, ethical and animal welfare aspects) and a ‘local & seasonal’ dimension (3 items) were identified. The Sustainable Food Choice Questionnaire shows to be reliable and valid in the five included countries and can be used as an addition to the Food Choice Questionnaire developed by Steptoe and colleagues (1995). The scale is suitable to gain a better understanding of the position of sustainability motives against other motives in consumers food choices and can be used for country comparisons. Elsevier Ltd https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104267 10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104267 Journal Article RefID:10358-rossi2020development Rossi Scalco,Andréa;Miller Devós Ganga,Gilberto;Cristina De Oliveira,Sandra;Baker,Gregory Development and validation of a scale for identification of quality attributes of agri-food products in short chains Geoforum 2020 111 165 175 Agri-food product quality;Agri-food short chains;Food attributes;Scale development The quality of the agri-food product, as well as the attributes that define it, has been developed for decades, where discussions around the theme turned to questions related to the standardization of attributes. It should be noted that the theoretical lines associated with the theme are derived from production systems models where production productivity and distribution on a global scale are the guiding principles of food production. Currently, there is greater demand for products coming from a model that contrasts with the global-scale production model, which emphasizes the aspects of standardization of products and processes. This new model of food consumption highlights specific characteristics of product quality related to the location and proximity to the producer. Discussions about product quality in this new model of production and consumption (agri-food short chains) are recent and need a theoretical and practical deepening, in view of the new demands of consumers for these products. This paper aims to present the development and validation of a scale with quality attributes from the consumer point of view applied specifically to food and beverage products characterized by agri-food short chains. Items were generated (27 quality attributes) from an extensive theoretical review (quality conventions), subjected to face validation, and then used to collect data from 904 consumers in short food distribution channels in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The data were analyzed through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, which resulted in a final scale composed of 20 quality attributes comprising, domestic, civic, regard, institutional, and market conventions. Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.02.012 10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.02.012 Journal Article RefID:10357-barbeta2014la Barbeta Viñas,Marc La mitología de lo ecológico: una reflexión socio-semiológica Distribución y Consumo 2014 1 36 42 consumo ecológico;medio-ambiente;metamarca;mitología;naturaleza;salud. El presente trabajo se plantea como una breve reflexión socio-semiológica sobre el relato mitológico que configuran significativamente los productos ecológicos. Tomando las Mitologías de Barthes, así como otros trabajos cercanos a este como modelo, se pBarbeta Viñas, M. (2014). La mitología de lo ecológico: una reflexión socio-semiológica, 1, 36–42.ropone el análisis de algunos de los mitos que componen la identidad de lo ecológico, en tanto que metamarca de consumo, en alza en los últimos tiempos. Observamos que los relatos socioculturales sobre lo ecológico parecen entroncar con algunos discursos hoy en alza para determinados sectores sociales, lo que supone la posibilidad, por parte de estos productos, y dado el soporte necesario de una correcta gestión y planteamiento comercial y de distribución, de acercarse a nuevos sectores de la demanda, y muy especialmente, de profundizar en las relaciones con aquellos que ya son efectivamente consumidores ecológicos. Journal Article RefID:10356-kloppenburg1996coming Kloppenburg,Jack;Hendrickson,John;Stevenson,G. W. Coming in to the foodshed Agriculture and Human Values 1996 13 3 33 42 Bioregionalists have championed the utility of the concept of the watershed as an organizing framework for thought and action directed to understanding and implementing appropriate and respectful human interaction with particular pieces of land. In a creative analogue to the watershed, permaculturist Arthur Getz has recently introduced the term "foodshed" to facilitate critical thought about where our food is coming from and how it is getting to us. We find the "foodshed" to be a particularly rich and evocative metaphor; but it is much more than metaphor. Like its analogue the watershed, the foodshed can serve us as a conceptual and methodological unit of analysis that provides a frame for action as well as thought. Food comes to most of us now through a global food system that is destructive of both natural and social communities. In this article we explore a variety of routes for the conceptual and practical elaboration of the foodshed. While corporations that are the principal beneficiaries of a global food system now dominate the production, processing, distribution, and consumption of food, alternatives are emerging that together could form the basis for foodshed development. Just as many farmers are recognizing the social and environmental advantages to sustainable agriculture, so are many consumers coming to appreciate the benefits of fresh and sustainably produced food. Such producers and consumers are being linked through such innovative arrangements as community supported agriculture and farmers markets. Alternative producers, alternative consumers, and alternative small entrepreneurs are rediscovering community and finding common ground in municipal and community food councils. Recognition of one's residence within a foodshed can confer a sense of connection and responsibility to a particular locality. The foodshed can provide a place for us to ground ourselves in the biological and social realities of living on the land and from the land in a place that we can call home, a place to which we are or can become native. 10.1007/BF01538225 Journal Article RefID:10355-mundler2012energy Mundler,Patrick;Rumpus,Lucas The energy efficiency of local food systems: A comparison between different modes of distribution Food Policy 2012 37 6 609 615 Energy efficiency;Food distribution;Food miles;Local food systems;Short sales chains;Sustainable food system http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919212000802 10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.07.006 Journal Article RefID:10354-maye2021transformative Maye,Damian;Swagemakers,Paul;Wiskerke,Johannes S. C.;Moschitz,Heidrun;Kirwan,James;Jahrl,Ingrid Transformative potential from the ground up: Sustainable innovation journeys, soft change and alignment of interests in urban food initiatives European Urban and Regional Studies 2021 Alignment of interests;soft change;sustainable innovation journeys;transformative potential;urban food initiatives This paper utilises the ‘sustainable innovation journeys’ concept to trace how people organise and design urban food initiatives and influence city-region food policy. We evaluate whether designs succeed or fail and monitor the exchange of ideas that takes place between stakeholders. Tracing these interactions reveals the transformative potential of innovative projects, particularly if the food system changes they bring to the fore are aligned with policy interests. Three case studies provide on-the-ground insights to assess how small and medium-sized enterprises at the micro-level induce sustainability shifts. The case studies are businesses in the city-regions of Rotterdam, The Netherlands (urban farm and circular food economy); Vigo, Spain (food, forest and multi-functional land use); and Zurich, Switzerland (organic food and short supply chains). Each initiative was studied in-depth over a two-year period, with follow-up analysis for a further four years to monitor change over time (2013–2018). The cases promote the adoption of micro-level innovation practices: locally designed transition pathways that bring the benefits of change to the city-region (i.e. from the micro-level initiative to meso-level policy). The analysis highlights the importance of ‘soft change’. This can be something as simple as visiting an inspiring urban food initiative and meeting with stakeholders to generate mutual understanding, from where interests align to influence food chain practices and policy. Soft changes act as ‘seeds of transition’ for a shift towards more sustainable urban food systems, but we observe too potentially negative impacts due to lack of alignment at the micro- (initiative) or meso- (city-region) levels. 10.1177/09697764211028887 Journal Article RefID:10353-moragues-faus2021emergence Moragues-Faus,Ana The emergence of city food networks: Rescaling the impact of urban food policies Food Policy 2021 103 102107 Food policy;Networks;Policy integration;Scale;Translocal;Urban food governance Hundreds of cities across the globe are mobilising the convening power of food to deliver food security and sustainability outcomes supported by an increasing number of national and international city food networks devoted to scale-up and out this urban food revolution. This paper presents the first comparative analysis of this increasingly networked urban foodscape based on data from 13 national and international initiatives which together represent more than 500 cities across the globe. By applying a translocal governance framework, the paper explores the different aims, structures and mechanisms activated by this complex landscape of networks and how these intrinsic characteristics endow them with diverse strengths and limitations. To examine further the role of networks in rescaling the impact urban food policies, I analyse the metagovernance of these initiatives exploring discourses around coordination of these networks and identifying potential convergence points. Results from this study are translated into policy recommendations aimed at unfolding further the transformative capacity of translocal networks and elevate their role in unfolding a more integrated and equitable new urban food agenda; mainly by proposing to reinforce the cross-scalar alignment of food policies, making the case to invest in connective infrastructure such as network and backbone organisations, work with a wider diversity of agents, and provide open spaces that democratise access to collective knowledge and capacities. c. As urban food policies become the new norm, this research stresses the need for rescaling food system interventions that effectively deliver social and spatial justice in an increasingly polarised word. Elsevier Ltd https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102107 10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102107 Journal Article RefID:10352-gordon2020productive Gordon,Rhyall Productive Paradoxes: Exploring Prefigurative Practices with Derrida through a Spanish Food Sovereignty Collective Antipode 2020 52 3 783 799 Spain;food sovereignty;justice;prefigurative politics;telos There has been a proliferation in the use of the concept of prefiguration to describe and understand many of the protest and social change movements of the past decade. However, there are key aspects of the concept that remain unexplored. In this paper I consider telos and justice, and unveil a temporal paradox arising from the thinking behind prefiguration. Rather than this temporal paradox of prefiguration being the undoing of the concept, it does in fact have the potential to be its strength. The purpose of this paper is to assert, by drawing on Derrida’s notion of the impossibility of justice, that the temporal paradox of prefiguration is not something to be resolved but instead is to be foregrounded and navigated. I use research from a food sovereignty collective in the north of Spain to offer an illustration of a prefigurative economic politics that embraces Derrida’s justice-as-an-impossibility. 10.1111/anti.12619 Journal Article RefID:10351-madureira2021choices Madureira,Teresa;Nunes,Fernando;Veiga,José;Saralegui-Diez,Pablo Choices in sustainable food consumption: How spanish low intake organic consumers behave Agriculture (Switzerland) 2021 11 11 1 18 Andalusia;Attributes;Best-worst scaling;Consumer behavior;Organic food;Spain The consumption of organic products has consistently increased over the last decades, covering increasingly diversified consumers, both in the characteristics and the reasons associated with consumption. This heterogeneity evidences the need to examine in depth the reasons for the purchase and consumption of these products. The core aim of this study is related to the motivational drivers of organic consumption. The survey included 250 respondents from Andalusia (Spain) who completed an online questionnaire and personal interviews. A convenience sampling method was applied, and the best-worst scaling method allowed us to analyze ten attributes of organic purchasing behavior. Health benefits and environmental impact are the key attributes explaining the consumption of organic products. To deeply understand organic consumer motivations, we studied the influence of six classification variables over the studied attributes. Applying ordinal regressions, we found that having children under 18 at home and a consumer’s academic level contribute in a relevant way to explain the valorization of the health benefits attribute. Also, the place to purchase organic food and academic level correlates with the valuation of GMOs in food. Andalusia is one of the largest European regions for organic production but with minor relevance in consumption. Nevertheless, despite this apparent paradox, the results of the present study point to a consumer profile very similar to other European countries with consolidated organic consumption. 10.3390/agriculture11111125 Journal Article RefID:10350-forssell2015sustainability Forssell,Sini;Lankoski,Leena The sustainability promise of alternative food networks: an examination through “alternative” characteristics Agriculture and Human Values 2015 32 1 63 75 Alternative food networks;Localized food systems;Short food supply chains;Sustainability Concerns about the unsustainability of the conventional food system have brought attention to so called alternative food networks (AFNs), which are widely thought to be more sustainable. However, claims made about AFNs’ sustainability have been subject to a range of criticisms. Some of them present counterevidence, while others have pointed to problematic underlying features in the academic literature and popular discourse that may hamper our understanding of AFNs’ sustainability. Considering these criticisms, together with the fact that the literature often addresses a specific type of AFN or a specific sustainability-related issue, it is hard to form a clear overall picture of the sustainability promise of AFNs. In this article, we seek to contribute to a clearer understanding of this promise through a structured review, focusing on links between AFN characteristics and sustainability. Through an analysis of AFN conceptualizations reflected in the literature, we identify and consolidate their key characteristics. We then synthesize claims of how these characteristics may translate into sustainability, finding a wide range of potential direct and indirect impacts. Examining these from different angles, we find that the sustainability promise of AFNs found in these claims is qualified by the presence of potentially unaddressed issues, by criticisms regarding for example the evidence base of the assumed impacts and their power in addressing sustainability, and by considerations of how these impacts might play out in actual, real-life food networks. Indirect impacts of learning and participation may be highly significant for sustainability. We conclude with recommendations for research and practice. 10.1007/s10460-014-9516-4 Journal Article RefID:10349-forssell2018shaping Forssell,Sini;Lankoski,Leena Shaping norms. A convention theoretical examination of alternative food retailers as food sustainability transition actors Journal of Rural Studies J.Rural Stud. 2018 63 46 56 Alternative food networks;Convention theory;Norms;Retail;Sustainability transitions Changing the shared rules and norms underpinning dominant regimes is seen as one driver of sustainability transitions, yet relatively little attention has been paid to exactly how actors seek to change these. In this study, we focus on the norm-shaping work performed by alternative food retailers, a potentially influential alternative food network actor, as a potential element of food system sustainability transitions. We use convention theory as a novel framework for examining this. Convention theory focuses on shared rules and norms in economic coordination and offers a framework for examining how actors negotiate what is right and desirable. By this theory, actors are considered to engage with a plurality of universally accepted notions of worth, organised into different worlds of justification, and to use specific strategies of justification or negotiation to propose and justify different configurations of ideals and their manifestations. The analysis shows how the retailers, by engaging with the different worlds of justification through different strategies of negotiation, promoted four overarching ideals of food production-consumption. Although we must be cautious of overstating the change-making potential of very marginal actors, the view opened by the convention theory perspective is one of active, strategic negotiation taking place in the margins of the dominant food regime, with potentially interesting interactions with the growing landscape pressures to take the food system in a more sustainable direction. Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.04.015 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.04.015 Journal Article RefID:10348-davies2019urban Davies,Anna;Evans,David Urban food sharing: Emerging geographies of production, consumption and exchange Geoforum 2019 99 154 159 Consumption;Exchange;Food sharing;Governance;Production;Urban geography The role of urban areas in shaping global futures has never been clearer. However, their complex socio-technical systems are under stress and unlikely to experience any respite as populations grow and as patterns of production and consumption resist transition to more sustainable pathways. Urban food systems are not exempt from these pressures, however they are the subject of ongoing experimentation and innovation, particularly around the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Urban food sharing is one such arena of experimentation. It includes collective and collaborative practices around food, from shared growing, cooking and eating and the redistribution of surplus food, to the sharing of spaces and devices. This themed issue brings together cutting-edge scholarship on what it means to share food in contemporary cities around the globe. All papers contribute to debates about how things become food, whether that is in relation to the rules and governing systems that shape and discipline these becomings, or the practices of exchange and consumption that follow. Together they develop geographically-sensitive approaches to sharing that better comprehend the relations between scale, space and place. This paper maps the terrain of urban food sharing, introduces key conceptual approaches, identifies common themes, and proposes an agenda for future studies. Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.11.015 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.11.015 Journal Article RefID:10347-candel2020whats Candel,Jeroen J. L. What’s on the menu? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 2020 44 7 919 946 Milan Urban Food Policy Pact;food policy;food system;integrated policy;public policy Increased recognition of the persistent and interconnected nature of food system challenges resulted in the creation of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) in 2015. MUFPP signatory cities commit themselves to contribute to a better functioning food system by adopting integrated approaches. This study assesses the number of MUFPP cities that have developed food strategies and the choices local policymakers make in the design of these strategies. The results show surprising similarities between cities across regions in terms of goals and instruments. At the same time, local governments clearly put different emphases and seem to vary in policy styles. Taylor & Francis https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2019.1648357 10.1080/21683565.2019.1648357 Journal Article RefID:10346-leglise2017ecoegalitarian Leglise,Mario Del Roble Pensado;Smolski,Andrew An eco-egalitarian solution to the capitalist consumer paradox: Integrating short food chains and public market systems Agriculture (Switzerland) 2017 7 9 Capitalist consumer paradox;Eco-egalitarian policy;Public market systems;Short food chains;Sustainable urban food system Presently, alternative agri-food networks are in a renaissance, utilizing an economy of proximity to compete against transnational agri-business and food distributors. While this is positive ecologically and socioeconomically, the overreliance on market mechanisms in short food chains has led to class distinctions in food distribution and consumption. The result has been a capitalist consumer paradox exacerbating inequality in the alternative agri-food networks. To resolve this inequality, we focused on how public policy can leverage state investment in public markets to reduce or overcome the capitalist consumer paradox in short food chains. To clarify our argument, we began by examining the benefits of short food chains in the urban food system. Then, we explained how type of consumption and policy regime effect food access. After this, we utilized Mexico City and New York City’s public market systems as representative of an alternative policy regime and the effects of moving away from state-oriented development. We concluded by describing possible conflicts and complements to the integration of public markets into short urban food chains. 10.3390/agriculture7090076 Journal Article RefID:10345-2017plataformas Ricard Espelt Rodrigo, Ismael Peña-López, Núria Vega Plataformas digitales : grupos y cooperativas de consumo versus La Colmena que dice sí , el caso de Barcelona Digital platforms : groups and consumer cooperatives versus The Redes.com 2017 15 144 174 10.15213/REDEs.n15.P145 Journal Article RefID:10344-vara-sánchez2021coproduction Vara-Sánchez,Isabel;Gallar-Hernández,David;García-García,Lidia;Morán Alonso,Nerea;Moragues-Faus,Ana The co-production of urban food policies: Exploring the emergence of new governance spaces in three Spanish cities Food Policy 2021 103 Co-production;Food policy;Social innovation;Transformative spaces;Urban food governance City councils around the globe are developing food policies that aim to integrate different sectors and actors involved in delivering sustainability and food security outcomes fostering changes in policy-making processes. However, the co-production of public policies faces multiple drawbacks to establish new forms of governance that generate greater legitimacy for institutions, improved efficiency, tighter social cohesion and deeper democratisation. This paper draws on recent literature on social innovation and critical governance to portray food policy co-production processes in Cordoba, Madrid and Valencia, analysing the changing role of the actors involved, identifying key factors and tools that sustain co-production processes, and highlighting common barriers. The results illustrate the changing roles of key actors in co-productive policies, together with the need to acknowledge the diversity of knowledge, capacities and interests within the public sector and civil society organisations to design effective policies. This includes crafting formal and informal governance spaces that underpin the fluid and constantly evolving process of developing food policies. This comparative study, thus, contributes to progress in conceptual and practical debates on co-production, providing new insights to inform future urban food policy developments. 10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102120 Journal Article RefID:10343-bouroullec2021public Bouroullec,Melise Public policy and the development of short local chains : an analysis of the RDPs in the Occitanie Region To cite this version : HAL Id : hal-03244059 Politique publique et développement des chaînes alimentaires courtes de proximité : une analyse des PDR 2021 Journal Article RefID:10342-national主観的健康感を中心とした在宅高齢者における National,Gross;Pillars,Happiness No 主観的健康感を中心とした在宅高齢者における 健康関連指標に関する共分散構造分析Title Over the last two decades, scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has become a very popular and widespread technique, with the number of publications and presentations making use of STEM techniques increasing by about an order of magnitude. Although the strengths of the technique for providing high-resolution structural and analytical information have been known and understood for much longer than that, the key to its more recent popularity has undoubtedly been the availability of STEM modes on instruments available from the major TEM manufacturers. Gone are the days when researchers want- ing the unique capabilities of high-resolution STEM had to undertake the task of keeping a VG dedicated STEM instrument operating. Given the current interest in the technique, we felt that the time was right to review the current state of knowledge about STEM and STEM-related techniques and their application to a range of materials problems. The purpose of this volume is both to educate those who wish to deepen their understanding of STEM and to inform those who are seeking a review of the latest applications and methods associated with STEM. We are delighted that so many of our colleagues accepted our invitation to contribute to this volume, and we are indebted to them for their efforts in creating such excellent contributions. The follow- ing chapters illustrate how close STEM has brought us to the ultimate materials characterisation challenge of analysing materials atom by atom. We hope that the following chapters demonstrate the spectacular results that can be achieved when performing the relatively simple experiment of focusing a beam of electrons down to an atomic scale and measuring the scattering that results. Stephen Journal Article RefID:10341-russell2019local Russell,Bertie Beyond the Local Trap: New Municipalism and the Rise of the Fearless Cities Antipode 2019 51 3 989 1010 New Municipalism;local trap;politics of proximity;politics of scale;urban democracy The Fearless Cities summit, coordinated by Barcelona en Comú in June 2017, marked the first global gathering of the nascent “new municipalist” movement. Responding to the “imperative that geographers engage critically and creatively with the way localism is being articulated”, this paper argues that the new municipalist initiatives are developing urban political strategies that successfully avoid the Local Trap. Rather than essentialising cities as inherently progressive or democratic, the municipal is instead becoming framed as a “strategic front” for developing a transformative politics of scale. Given this critical awareness, this nascent movement demonstrates how local loyalties can be mobilised as part of a progressive scalar strategy without falling into the trap of a “particular localism”. What remains to be seen is whether these initiatives are able to develop a variegated scalar strategy of transformation that retains the democratic essence that underpins them. 10.1111/anti.12520 Journal Article RefID:10340-morillas2020nuevos Morillas del Moral,José Antonio Nuevos comunes para la transformación eco-social: el Ecomercado de Granada como estudio de caso REVESCO.Revista de Estudios Cooperativos 2020 135 135 e69179 Nuevos comunes para la transformación eco-social:;agroecología;bienes comunes;calidad alimentaria;economía social y solidaria;sustentabilidad El presente trabajo señala las distintas vertientes abiertas en el estudio del común, especialmente dentro de los nuevos comunes. Posteriormente, se construye un marco de referencia entre la Economía Social y Solidaria y el estudio de los bienes comunes utilizando las líneas conceptuales que unen ambas teorías. Finalmente, se aplica dicho marco a un caso de estudio de nuevos comunes temáticos que se configura como una iniciativa de Economía Social y Solidaria: El Ecomercado de Granada. Este Ecomercado persigue una mayor calidad alimentaria y una forma distinta de entender las relaciones agroalimentarias y económicas en la ciudad. 10.5209/reve.69179 Journal Article RefID:10339-medici2021exploring Medici,Marco;Canavari,Maurizio;Castellini,Alessandra Exploring the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of community-supported agriculture in Italy Journal of Cleaner Production J.Clean.Prod. 2021 316 128233 Alternative food network;Civic agriculture;Short food supply chains;Sustainable agriculture;Urban agriculture The diffusion of community supported agriculture (CSA) in Italy is a very recent phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current status and the evolution of this reality, understanding the social, environmental, and economic benefits for CSA members and the local context. Based on access to CSA data and participant observation during a CSA meeting, a thematic network analysis was adopted to analyse a large piece of information spanning from social, economic, and environmental topics as well as existing relationships between different CSA. Later, we interviewed CSA representatives about CSA production structure and several issues concerning their sustainability, including the role played by CSA members; the economic self-sufficiency; the environmental impact associated with food production. Findings highlighted that in general, the CSA phenomenon in Italy meets sustainability goals, even with different levels of members' involvement, working conditions, economic viability, and environmental impact from a community to one another, with desirable further improvements along all dimensions for most of them. Social transformations in which consumers take the role of producers and consumers at the same time with increased responsibility have been observed. In this context, the members' degree of responsibility contributes to distinguishing CSA in its full sense from CSA initiatives somehow started as ethical purchasing groups, with lower levels of commitment by members, then trying to trigger a higher involvement. The lack of policy support is containing further CSA diffusion and consolidation: new mechanisms are necessary at least to figure out, recognise, and reward the mitigation of environmental impacts characterising local food production and distribution. Elsevier Ltd https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128233 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128233 Journal Article RefID:10338-montefrio2019politics Montefrio,Marvin Joseph Fonacier;Johnson,Alaine Taylor Politics in participatory guarantee systems for organic food production Journal of Rural Studies J.Rural Stud. 2019 65 1 11 In response to the neoliberal regulation of the organic agri-food sector through third-party certification (TPC), participatory guarantee systems (PGS) are advocated for their potential to promote food sovereignty, inclusivity, and grassroots empowerment. However, we show that in the Philippines, farming groups adopting PGS encounter politics that manifests as tensions and contradictions in the imagination and practice of this seemingly more transformative organic guarantee system. Based on qualitative research, we observed how some members continue to aspire for TPC resulting in cases of double certification (i.e. members having both PGS and TPC). Such contradiction encounters varying levels of contestation, which we attribute to the local particularities of the two PGS systems and the broader structural conditions that continue to privilege TPC. Rather than frame PGS as co-opted by the dominant neoliberalised organic agri-food sector, we emphasise possibilities for farmers’ autonomy in negotiating these tensions. Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.12.014 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.12.014 Journal Article RefID:10337-michel-villarreal2021resilience Michel-Villarreal,Rosario;Vilalta-Perdomo,Eliseo;Canavari,Maurizio;Hingley,Martin Resilience and digitalization in short food supply chains: A case study approach Sustainability (Switzerland) 2021 13 11 1 24 Alternative food networks;Digital transformation;Local food systems;Resilient agri-food chains The interest in short food supply chains (SFSCs) has grown significantly in the last decade, notably in respect of their potential role to achieve more sustainable food chains. However, a major barrier to achieving sustainable supply chains is the uncertainty associated with supply chain activities. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the different resilience capabilities that SFSCs possess and the potential role of digital technologies as enablers of SFSCs’ resilience. Using a case study research approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted in two SFSCs in Mexico. Collected data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings suggest that SFSCs possess the supply chain resilience (SC resilience) capabilities investigated here, namely flexibility, redundancy, collaboration, visibility and agility. A key finding is the importance of low-cost digital technologies (including freeware and social media) that can support flexibility, collaboration, visibility and agility. These findings raise important implications for SFSCs actors exploring opportunities to improve their collective resilience. This study expands the current literature by proposing a conceptual framework that summarizes a wide variety of strategies that support SC resilience capabilities in the context of SFSCs. 10.3390/su13115913 Journal Article RefID:10336-mckitterick2019trust McKitterick,Lynsey;Quinn,Barry;Tregear,Angela Trust formation in agri-food institutional support networks Journal of Rural Studies J.Rural Stud. 2019 65 53 64 Agri-food;Artisan;Institutional;Knowledge exchange;Rural;Trust The important role of institutional support actors in building the networking capacities of rural economic actors and communities has been noted. Over the last two decades, rural and agri-food network models of institutional support have undergone substantive change. Trust is a vital feature of such programmes, however the nature of trust, and how it is manifest, in rural support programmes is underexplored. A longitudinal qualitative methodology is adopted, involving semi-structured interviews and group discussions with artisanal food producers and institutional actors in four cases of business support. Drawing upon cases demonstrating varying levels of trust, the paper examines how trust is formed, and lost, across forms of institutional support programmes and the underlying factors that moderate trust formation. The analysis provides insights into the conflicting narratives around trust formation from advisor-client perspectives. The paper contributes to theory development by offering a conceptualisation of trust building approaches in advisor-client relationships in rural support programmes. Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.11.008 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.11.008 Journal Article RefID:10335-enthoven2020investigating Enthoven,Margo P. M.;Brouwer,Aleid E. Investigating spatial concentration of sustainable restaurants: It is all about good food! Annals of Regional Science Ann.Reg.Sci. 2020 64 3 575 594 E71,L26,R12,Q01 This research addresses the role of sustainable demand and psychological and cultural factors in the spatial concentration of sustainable SMEs. We analyze the spatial concentration of sustainable SMEs in the restaurant sector in the Netherlands. We argue that traditional agglomeration theories can partially explain spatial concentration of sustainable SMEs, but are not sufficient in explaining the sub-sector concentration of sustainable entrepreneurs. Demand, psychological and cultural factors could explain sub-sector concentration of sustainable restaurants. We use sustainable entrepreneurship theory to explain this difference. We analyze spatial concentration of sustainable SMEs in three ways. First, we investigate spatial concentration based on all individual locations of sustainable restaurants with an average nearest neighbor analysis. Second, we analyze spatial autocorrelation with use of the Moran’s I statistic. Finally, we map the clustering of sustainable restaurants with a Getis–Ord Gi* analysis. We use sustainable restaurants as a percentage of conventional restaurants in a region in the Netherlands. While controlling for conventional clustering, we find a single large cluster of sustainable restaurants. Arguably, this clustering is caused by a spatial variation of demand and individual psychological traits of sustainable entrepreneurs, which together represent a regional culture of sustainable entrepreneurship. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 0123456789 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-019-00955-6 10.1007/s00168-019-00955-6 Journal Article RefID:10334-maye2017understanding Maye,Damian;Duncan,Jessica Understanding Sustainable Food System Transitions: Practice, Assessment and Governance Sociologia Ruralis 2017 57 3 267 273 10.1111/soru.12177 Journal Article RefID:10333-manteghi2021competition Manteghi,Yashar;Arkat,Jamal;Mahmoodi,Anwar;Farvaresh,Hamid Competition and cooperation in the sustainable food supply chain with a focus on social issues Journal of Cleaner Production J.Clean.Prod. 2021 285 Food supply chain;Game theory;Greenhouse gas emissions;Pricing;Sustainability Additives are added to raw materials and products with purposes such as reduction of costs, improvement of physical appearance and taste, and enhancement of shelf life. Overuse of additives causes health problems for consumers and hence supply chain members must consider social consequences besides the economic goals in the specification of the amount of additives. Furthermore, the production and delivery operations in the food supply chain constitute one of the leading causes of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The reduction of GHG emissions increases cost, and a balance, therefore, needs to be established between economic and environmental goals. In this study, three pricing models are presented for a supply chain, including two suppliers and one manufacturer. Consumer health and the reduction of GHG emissions are investigated as the social and environmental objectives, respectively, besides the supply chain members’ profit. While a centralized structure is considered in the first model, the second and third models have decentralized structures. Unlike in the second model, where all the supply chain members compete with each other, an alliance is considered in the third model between the first supplier and the manufacturer, competing with the other supplier. The equilibrium decisions are derived for each scenario using the game-theoretic approach. Moreover, the impact of the supply chain structure on the carbon emissions, amount of additives, and agents’ profits are investigated. A number of interesting insights have been revealed from these analyses. For example, it is demonstrated that the government could set penalties for the addition of additives in specific ranges, as a result of which the supply chain members would prefer not to add to additives. A numerical analysis is carried out to present more insights into the effects of the main parameters. We found that the more customer demand depends on price, the less the manufacturer will be motivated to reduce GHG emissions. GHG emissions increase as government penalty for endangering consumer health rises. Alliances between supply chain members are economically beneficial when product demand is dependent more strictly on the reduction of GHG emissions. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124872 Journal Article RefID:10332-van2019economic van der Ploeg,Jan Douwe;Barjolle,Dominique;Bruil,Janneke;Brunori,Gianluca;Costa Madureira,Livia Maria;Dessein,Joost;Drąg,Zbigniew;Fink-Kessler,Andrea;Gasselin,Pierre;Gonzalez de Molina,Manuel;Gorlach,Krzysztof;Jürgens,Karin;Kinsella,Jim;Kirwan,James;Knickel,Karlheinz;Lucas,Veronique;Marsden,Terry;Maye,Damian;Migliorini,Paola;Milone,Pierluigi;Noe,Egon;Nowak,Piotr;Parrott,Nicholas;Peeters,Alain;Rossi,Adanella;Schermer,Markus;Ventura,Flaminia;Visser,Marjolein;Wezel,Alexander The economic potential of agroecology: Empirical evidence from Europe Journal of Rural Studies J.Rural Stud. 2019 71 46 61 This article discusses the economic dimensions of agroecological farming systems in Europe. It firstly theoretically elaborates the reasons why, and under what conditions, agroecological farming systems have the potential to produce higher incomes than farms that follow the conventional logic. This theoretical exposition is then followed by a presentation of empirical material from a wide range of European countries that shows the extent to which this potential is being realized. The empirical data draw upon different styles of farming that can be described as ‘proto-agroecological’: approaches to farming that are agroecological by nature, but which may not necessarily explicitly define themselves as agroecological. The empirical material that we present shows the huge potential and radical opportunities that Europe's, often silent, ‘agroecological turn’ offers to farmers that could (and should) be the basis for the future transformation of European agricultural policies, since agroecology not only allows for more sustainable production of healthier food but also considerably improves farmers' incomes. It equally carries the promise of re-enlarging productive agricultural (and related) employment and increasing the total income generated by the agricultural sector, at both regional and national levels. While we recognise that agroecology is a worldwide and multidimensional phenomenon we have chosen to limit this analysis to Europe and the economic dimension. This choice is made in order to refute current discourses that represent agroecology as unproductive and unprofitable and an option that would require massive subsidies. Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.09.003 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.09.003 Journal Article RefID:10331-zazo2021agricultural Zazo Moratalla,Ana;Paül,Valerià What is an Agricultural Park? Observations from the Spanish Experience Land Use Policy 2021 105584 Agricultural park;Farmland protection and management;Governance;Land-use planning;Spain In recent decades, an emerging literature on Agricultural Parks (APs) has described and theorized their variations in the different countries where they have been debated and/or implemented. This paper aims to conceptualize an AP in the Spanish context by analyzing case-studies. The review of the existing international literature on APs is followed by a set of analytical criteria to select pertinent case-studies and construct three analytical clusters consisting of several variables. The results of the comparative assessment of 19 selected case-studies are then presented. The analytical results obtained are compared against the available literature, highlighting several contentious findings which are contrary to the researchers’ expectations, including the quasi absent physical planning dimension of APs. The paper concludes that, counter to previous aprioristic and deductive AP literature, APs are not consistent across jurisdictions despite making use of the same name. By contrast, they merely share some soft features that are made explicit here, leading towards a final proposed conceptualization of APs. Elsevier Ltd https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105584 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105584 Journal Article RefID:10330-owenplacebased Owen,Luke;Udall,Donna;Franklin,Alex;Kneafsey,Moya Place-Based Pathways to Sustainability: Exploring Alignment between Geographical Indications and the Concept of Agroecology Territories in Wales Wales;agroecology;agroecology territories;geographical indications;reflexive governance Geographical Indications (GIs) are regarded as important endogenous rural development mechanisms by the European Union. GIs have proven successful for some producers in some regions, delivering higher added value and safeguarding a product's identity and heritage through the notion of terroir. Within the context of a gradual "greening" of GIs, this paper opens up questions about what potential they might have for transitions to agroecology territories, which are spaces engaged in a transition process towards sustainable agri-food systems. Using the Food and Agricultural Organization's 10 elements of agroecology as a lens, we discuss whether GIs can serve as levers in delivering sustainable agri-food transitions, drawing on the case of the devolved nation of Wales. We base our narrative on a content analysis of GI product specification documents and data from interviews with GI stakeholders. Our case study illustrates that the discourse within the regulatory framework of some Welsh GIs has shifted from one of technicality towards the integration of some agroecology elements in more recent GI product specifications. In this respect, we argue that there is evidence of a "first generation" and "second generation" assortment of GIs in Wales. However, any potential for levering an overall transition within this scheme towards an agroecology territory remains constrained by the piecemeal embedding of agroecology. The incorporation of agroecology is emerging primarily from the ground-up-driven by independent organizational and place-based collective action, but unaccompanied, as yet, by any parallel shift amongst supporting administrative and regulatory authorities. We also discuss the importance of reflexive governance if GIs are to be viable pathways for sustainability transitions. As such, the capacity for GIs to facilitate quality-led place-based food systems that enhance increasingly threatened environmental resources is contingent upon stakeholders adopting a territorial, reflexive governance approach. www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability 10.3390/su12124890