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The resilience and viability of farmers markets in the United States as an alternative food network: case studies from Michigan during the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper examines the resilience of farmers markets in Michigan to the system shock of the global COVID-19 pandemic, questioning how the response...
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Motivations of Public Officials as Drivers of Transition to Sustainable School Food Provisioning: Insights from Avignon, France
A large body of experience and expertise on the implementation of sustainable public school food procurement policies has developed in recent years....
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Food Sovereignty Education Across the Americas: Multiple Origins, Converging Movements
Social movements are using education to generate critical consciousness regarding the social and environmental unsustainability of the current food...
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Narrating agricultural resilience after Hurricane María: how smallholder farmers in Puerto Rico leverage self-sufficiency and collaborative agency in a climate-vulnerable food system
Climate change is a threat to food system stability, with small islands particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events. In Puerto Rico, a...
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Social solidarity, social infrastructure, and community food access
This study examines the case of community resource mobilization within the context of a farmers market incentive program in Washington D.C., USA to...
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Feed the futureland: an actor-based approach to studying food security projects
Critical development and food studies scholars argue that the current food security paradigm is emblematic of a ‘New Green Revolution’, characterized...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and food assistance organizations’ responses in New York’s Capital District
This research examines the impact of COVID-19 on food security in New York state and the innovative approaches employed by food assistance...
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Comparative Analysis of Food Related Sustainable Development Goals in the North Asia Pacific Region
Member States of the United Nations proposed Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, emphasizing the well-being of people, planet,...
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Identity and Food Choice: You Are What You Eat?
We use Marya Schechtman’s Narrative Self-Constitution View to support the widespread idea that food can contribute to the construction and expression...
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Connecting the Concepts of Frugality and Inclusion to Appraise Business Practices in Systems of Food Provisioning: A Kenyan Case Study
Small and medium size business enterprises (SMEs) are the linchpin in systems of food provisioning in sub-Saharan Africa. These businesses occupy the...
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Ecovillage foodscapes: zooming in and out of sustainable food practices
This article uses foodscapes as a lens to explore the potential of ecovillages’ food practices towards enhancing sustainable food systems....
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Growing pains in local food systems: a longitudinal social network analysis on local food marketing in Baltimore County, Maryland and Chester County, Pennsylvania
Local food systems are growing, and little is known about how the constellation of farms and markets change over time. We trace the evolution of two...
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Discourses of sustainability and imperial modes of food provision: agri-food-businesses and consumers in Germany
It is widely accepted that overcoming the social-ecological crises we face requires major changes to the food system. However, opinions diverge on...
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City networks’ power in global agri-food systems
Cities and local governments loom large on the sustainability agenda. Networks such as Fair Trade Towns International (FTT) and the Organic Cities...
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Food, Focal Practices, and Decolonial Agrarianism
Agrarianism, according to Paul B. Thompson, is an environmental philosophy focused on agriculture and the nurturing of food, fuel, and fiber....
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Local food systems, citizen and public science, empowered communities, and democracy: hopes deserving to live
Since 1984, the AHV journal has provided a key forum for a community of interdisciplinary, international researchers, educators, and policy makers to...
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The project, the everyday, and reflexivity in sociotechnical agri-food assemblages: proposing a conceptual model of digitalisation
Digital technologies have opened up new perspectives in thinking about the future of food and farming. Not only do these new technologies promise to...
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Perceptions of high-tech controlled environment agriculture among local food consumers: using interviews to explore sense-making and connections to good food
In recent years, new forms of high-tech controlled environment agriculture (CEA) have received increased attention and investment. These systems...
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Searching for the plot: narrative self-making and urban agriculture during the economic crisis in Slovenia
Analyses of household urban agriculture have demonstrated a wealth of personal, economic, social, moral or political uses for self-provisioned food,...