This paper aims to examine the issue raised by the consumption of locally produced food in
all its various aspects, and in particular, addresses how this practice contributes to local and …

Facing the continuous loss of family-run farms across Europe, farmers are seeking new
pathways to sustainability. One such pathway is involvement in local food supply systems …

Abstract Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) plays a significant role in improving
consumers' access to fresh and high-quality fruits and vegetables, often at lower prices than …

Despite a common legal framework at EU-level, organic farming has developed differently in
Member States. Previous analyses showed the influence of various factors on the …

Vienna's biomass demand is large and nearly all biomass consumed in the city is produced
in the regional and global hinterland. This raises the question, how the socioecological …

Resilience is a concept that focuses on change: it includes the ability of a system to maintain
its current state despite disturbances, its ability to adapt, and to transform. While resilience …

This book examines the role of local food movements, enterprises and networks in the
transformation of the currently unsustainable global food system. It explores a series of …

Over the centuries, specific farming practices shaped permanent grasslands in mountains.
With socio-economic change, farming practices have changed and with them the landscape …

Purpose The study aims to demonstrate that farmers' markets can represent a model of
environmental, social and governance reference for modern agri-food systems facing the …

In the recent literature, Alternative Food Networks (AFN) are discussed as a promising
approach, at the urban-rural interface, to meeting the challenges of the current agri-food …