Despite the different elements that regard Food Supply Chains (FSCs) and the Short Food
Supply Chains (SFSCs) as possessing opposing models, substantial changes are …

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 …

Veganism is the subject of an increasingly diverse body of social scientific research, yet it
remains relatively understudied in geography. Meanwhile, contemporary cultural …

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 …

This Special Issue on Diversified Farming Systems is motivated by a desire to understand
how agriculture designed according to whole systems, agroecological principles can …

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 …

'Local food systems' movements, practices, and writings pose increasingly visible structures
of resistance and counter-pressure to conventional globalizing food systems. The place of …

In this chapter, the authors discuss genetic engineering and agroecology as two
technological paradigms that make sense and science. Technological paradigms are a …

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 …

From farm to fork, the conventional food chain is under enormous pressure to respond to a
whole series of new challenges-food scares in rich countries, food security concerns in poor …