Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development.
Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are …

Rural development related to agriculture can roughly be divided into two trajectories: 1) agri-
industrial development or modernisation, and 2) multifunctional or even post-productivist …

In response to calls by scholars to deepen theoretical engagement in research on
Alternative Food Networks (AFNs), in this article we critically discuss and assess major …

The article considers how policy can address the local–global within a wider commitment to
food sustainability and draws on research conducted for the EU-funded GLAMUR project …

Alternative and local food supply chains (ALFSCs) have been indicated as drivers of
territorial development through increasing the food security at local scale. The aim of the …

In this article the bricolage concept is applied to compare the organisational dynamics of two
alternative food networks (AFNs) in Riga and Bristol respectively. It is argued that bricolage …

In the European Union (EU), movements on behalf of consumers and farmers have
increasingly called upon EU institutions to adopt regulatory and agricultural subsidy …

The idea that a sustainable transformation of the food system is urgently needed is gaining
ground throughout Europe. Yet, opinions differ substantially on what a sustainable food …

Lithuania hosts a diversity of places that offer consumers a taste of local food, which appear
to mirror the recent popularity of local and alternative food initiatives globally. In this paper …

The goal of this paper is twofold: to comparatively analyze the social performance of global
and local berry supply chains and to explore the ways in which the social dimension is …