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 …

Reconfiguration of power relations is crucial to transformations in agro-food systems. In this
paper, we propose a conceptual basis for understanding this relation, building on the …

The special issue titled 'Values‐based Territorial Food Networks–Benefits, challenges and
controversies' and this introductory editorial aim to bridge conceptual and disciplinary …

Despite the extensive literature on Local Agro-food Systems (LAFS), which involves
research on local food identity and organisational proximity, the environmental sustainability …

Alternative food systems have occupied a steady niche in the food systems transformation
discourse as one of the transformative pathways capable of addressing many of the United …

At the local and regional levels, planning for sustainable development rests on the structural
peculiarities of territories following a development model that lays its foundations on the …

Current globalized agricultural and food systems operate with an unsustainable capitalist
model of production and consumption. The middle and upper classes of the global North …

An Eco-Region (Biodistretto in Italian) is a rural area where different actors work together for
the sustainable management of local resources, based on the principles and models of …

Interacting driving forces in food systems, resulting in cumulative driver effects and
synergies, induce non-linear processes in multiple directions. This paper critically reviews …

The current food regime has experienced a multidimensional crisis, driving further unjust
and unsustainable development. Various food alternatives address these challenges by …