Promoting local food products for sustainability: Developing a taxonomy of best practices

L Guillaumie, LA Vézina‐Im, O Boiral… - Sustainable …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The number of practices promoting local food have been rapidly growing in recent years,
mainly in response to the increasing interest from consumers and their sustainability …

Participation for just governance of food-system transition

S Huttunen, A Turunen, M Kaljonen - … : Science, Practice and Policy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Sustainability transitions governance needs to be inclusive and participatory and the
question of justice is crucial for making effective and acceptable changes possible. But how …

[HTML][HTML] Fragmentary embeddedness: Challenges for alternative food networks in Guangzhou, China

S Zhong, A Hughes, M Crang, G Zeng… - Journal of Rural …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alternative food networks (AFNs) have been viewed as being more deeply embedded in the
fabric of places and the social relations of their food systems than conventional food …

Agri-food markets towards agroecology: Tensions and compromises faced by small-scale farmers in Brazil and Chile

EFP Muñoz, PA Niederle, BC de Gennaro, L Roselli - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the main dilemmas faced by small-scale farmers' movements advocating for
agroecology in Latin America lies in the trade-offs between the economic opportunities …

Practices and strategies for global sourcing and supply chain management: A Pareto analysis and MOORA a mixed method approach

R Raj, V Kumar, A Mittal, P Verma, KK Lai… - Journal of Global …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to identify and prioritize the key practices and strategies for
effective global sourcing and supply chain management (SCM). Design/methodology …

Exploring approaches to equal and effective participation of governance actors in trans-local city food networks

A Steyaert, J Dessein, C Prové - Geoforum, 2023 - Elsevier
This study examines how trans-local city food networks approach participation within their
internal governance arrangements. For this purpose, we investigate eleven trans-local city …

[HTML][HTML] The transformative potential of Seed Commons: Applying the social-ecological transformation framework to agri-food systems

J Tschersich, S Sievers-Glotzbach, N Gmeiner… - Journal of Rural …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we argue that small initiatives can contribute to larger transformations if they
challenge and unmake incumbent unsustainable paradigms, and we demonstrate how the …

Consumers' expectations on transparency of sustainable food chains

R Pozelli Sabio, EE Spers - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The search for food products from sustainable chains has increased in the past years,
motivated by consumers' interest in reducing the negative environmental, economic, and …

Alternative food networks, social capital, and public policy in Mexico City

AG Pasquier Merino, G Torres Salcido, DS Monachon… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Social initiatives that seek to promote socially fairer and environmentally more sustainable
food production and distribution schemes have multiplied in the last two decades. Several …

Exploring emergent practices in alternative food networks: Voedselteams in Belgium

TA Zwart, E Mathijs - Journal of Rural Studies, 2020 - Elsevier
Current sustainability challenges in agro-food networks highlight the need for sustainability
transitions in agro-food practices. This paper aims to contribute by analysing how emergent …