Agri-food markets towards sustainable patterns

V Borsellino, E Schimmenti, H El Bilali - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, the confluence of different global and domestic drivers has led to
progressive and unpredictable changes in the functioning and structure of agri-food markets …

Sustainable food supply chains: is shortening the answer? A literature review for a research and innovation agenda

Y Chiffoleau, T Dourian - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are increasingly garnering attention in food systems
research, owing to their rising popularity among consumers, producers and policy-makers in …

Enablers to implement sustainable initiatives in agri-food supply chains

SK Mangla, S Luthra, N Rich, D Kumar… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to rapid agricultural industrialization, increased global food demand, and, increasing
concerns related to food quality and safety, the concepts of sustainability and supply chain …

Concentration and power in the food system

PH Howard - Concentration and Power in the Food System, 2021 - torrossa.com
Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the
supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes …

[PDF][PDF] From uniformity to diversity: a paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems

EA Frison - 2016 - cgspace.cgiar.org
Today's food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to
global markets, but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread …

Sustainability standards: Interactions between private actors, civil society, and governments

EF Lambin, T Thorlakson - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
New partnerships between governments, private companies, and nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) are reshaping global environmental governance. In particular, there …

What does it mean to do food justice?

KV Cadieux, R Slocum - Journal of political ecology, 2015 - digitalcommons.hamline.edu
Abstract'Food justice'and'food sovereignty'have become key words in food movement
scholarship and activism. In the case of'food justice', it seems the word is often substituted for …

Diversified farming systems: an agroecological, systems-based alternative to modern industrial agriculture

C Kremen, A Iles, C Bacon - Ecology and society, 2012 - JSTOR
This Special Issue on Diversified Farming Systems is motivated by a desire to understand
how agriculture designed according to whole systems, agroecological principles can …

The sustainability promise of alternative food networks: an examination through “alternative” characteristics

S Forssell, L Lankoski - Agriculture and human values, 2015 - Springer
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 …

Degrowth and agri-food systems: a research agenda for the critical social sciences

L Guerrero Lara, L Van Oers, J Smessaert… - Sustainability …, 2023 - Springer
Degrowth has become a recognised paradigm for identifying and critiquing systemic
unsustainability rooted in the capitalist, growth-compelled economy. Increasingly, degrowth …