The paper explores the challenges faced by a consumer food cooperative to combine social
inclusion and embeddedness in its urban environment with the standards of food quality it …

In the now extensive literature on alternative food networks (AFNs)(eg farmers' markets,
community supported agriculture, box schemes), a body of work has pointed to socio …

The combined challenges of food insecurity, agriculture-related environmental decline,
corporate concentration, and the decline of community resilience are being met by growing …

Food is central to individual and community well-being and represents a nexus for exploring
community development. A community development framework is particularly relevant for …

Farmers' markets, often structured as non-profit or cooperative organizations, play a
prominent role in emerging alternative food networks of western Canada. The contribution of …

This review aims to unravel how partnering processes relate to processes of inclusion in the
context of food provisioning. In food provisioning, inclusion has two key dimensions: the …

Alternative food networks (AFNs) are growing in number and relevance in Germany. Those
networks include new models of production and distribution, such as food cooperatives …

In recent years, alternative food networks are emerging as alternative solutions to the
mainstream food industry. These innovative ways of producing, delivering and consuming …

Abstract The emergence of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) has drawn the attention of
researchers from various fields, who try to understand and explain these new phenomena …

Alternative food networks are emerging in opposition to industrial food systems, but are
criticized as being exclusive, since customers' ability to patronize these market spaces is …