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The roles and dynamics of transition intermediaries in enabling sustainable public food procurement: insights from Spain
Sustainable Public Food Procurement (SPFP) is gaining recognition for its potential to improve the sustainability of food systems and promote...
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Urban food governance without local food: missing links between Czech post-socialist cities and urban food alternatives
Food is becoming an increasingly important issue in the urban context. Urban food policies are a new phenomenon in Czechia, where urban food...
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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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Producer and consumer perspectives on supporting and diversifying local food systems in central Iowa
The majority of food in the US is distributed through global/national supply chains that exclude locally-produced goods. This situation offers...
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Ambient struggling: food, chronic disease, and spatial isolation among the urban poor
This paper uses the survival strategies of food shelf clients to explore how food access, chronic disease, and spatial isolation shape the lives of...
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The relevance of food sovereignty assessments in urban sites of scarcity: lessons from mothers in Cap-Haitian, Haiti
Urban food sovereignty is a growing field of research and a site of struggle for food justice advocates, but it has gained less attention in...
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Food democracy: possibilities under the frame of the current food system
Food democracy is a concept with growing influence in food research. Food democracy deals with how actors may regain democratic control over the food...
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The Effect of Regulation on Sustainable Procurement: Organisational Leadership and Culture as Mediators
The study reported in this paper sought to examine the extent to which organisational leadership support and organisational culture explain the...
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Motivations, changes and challenges of participating in food-related social innovations and their transformative potential: three cases from Berlin (Germany)
Dominant agri-food systems are increasingly seen as unsustainable in terms of environmental degradation, mass production or high food waste. In an...
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Metrics and Mētis: work and practical knowledge in Agri-food sustainability governance
In the mid twenty-tens, many major food companies committed to sustainably source their priority ingredients, including North American commodity...
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Ecological regulation for healthy and sustainable food systems: responding to the global rise of ultra-processed foods
Many are calling for transformative food systems changes to promote population and planetary health. Yet there is a lack of research that considers...
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Mātauranga Māori and Kai in Schools: An Exploration of Traditional Māori Knowledge and Food in Five Primary Schools in Regional New Zealand
Māori (Indigenous people of New Zealand (NZ)) suffer food insecurity disproportionately in New Zealand. Some research suggests that Māori value mātaura...
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Social justice-oriented narratives in European urban food strategies: Bringing forward redistribution, recognition and representation
More and more cities develop urban food strategies (UFSs) to guide their efforts and practices towards more sustainable food systems. An emerging...
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Moving beyond direct marketing with new mediated models: evolution of or departure from alternative food networks?
For some time we have seen a shift away from direct marketing, a core feature and dominant exchange form in the alternative food world, towards a...
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An Introduction to Food Cooperatives in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon: Territorial Actors and Potential Levers to Local Development Through Culinary Heritage
Economic development approaches are increasingly entailing local geographic scales and encouraging the mobilization and organization of territorial...
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“Safer to plant corn and beans”? Navigating the challenges and opportunities of agricultural diversification in the U.S. Corn Belt
Agricultural diversification in the Midwestern Corn Belt has the potential to improve socioeconomic and environmental outcomes by buffering farmers...
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‘Workable Utopias’ for Social Change Through Inclusion and Empowerment? Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Wales as Social Innovation
The focus of this article is community supported agriculture (CSA) as an alternative food movement and a bottom-up response to the problems of the...
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Intersectional coalitions towards a just agroecology: weaving mutual aid and agroecology in Barcelona and Seville
Although in theory social justice is considered as a core dimension of agroecological transitions, alternative food initiatives related to...
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Containing Hunger, Contesting Injustice? Exploring the Transnational Growth of Foodbanking- and Counter-responses- Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 caused levels of household food insecurity to spike, but the precarity of so many people in wealthy countries is an outgrowth of decades of...