Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw on the theoretical framework based on
grassroots social innovation niches to analyse how and to what extent participation in …

The purpose of this article is to present the specific character of Alternative Food Networks
(AFNs) in Poland as one of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We refer to …

Social innovation and empowerment are complex concepts that, from an analytical point of
view, are not necessarily related. One explicit goal of social innovation is to empower …

Without focusing entirely on what is wrong with the world around us, the third edition of
Society and the Environment centers its discussion on realistic solutions to the problems that …

The aim of this special issue is to explore emergent phenomena in the agri-food sector
through the lens of prosumption, in order to highlight its heuristic value in identifying new …

Solidarity purchase groups (SPGs from now on) are cases in point of the so-called
“Alternative food networks”(AFNs from now on), a wide-ranging body of practices dealing …

We develop a new model of social innovation (SI) inspired by the multi-channel interactive
learning model of business innovation. As opposed to the linear models of innovation, this …

La innovación social es un concepto teórico que ha sido aplicado al debate sobre el estado
de bienestar en el ámbito local, por su capacidad de identificar propuestas de iniciativa …

El modelo de Estado de Bienestar del sur de Europa se caracteriza por el importante papel
del cuidado proporcionado por la familia. Numerosos estudios muestran la sobrecarga …

Over the last twenty years, Alternative Food Networks (AFN) have become increasingly
successful at reducing the length of the chain that connects food production and …