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Alternative Food Networks in Latin America—exploring PGS (Participatory Guarantee Systems) markets and their consumers: a cross-country comparison
Alternative food networks (AFN) are argued to provide platforms to re-socialize and re-spacealize food, establish and contribute to democratic...
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Food and Climate Change in a Philosophical Perspective
This chapter surveys the most philosophically pressing issues associated with food and climate change. It highlights the main scholarly...
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Food and Climate Change in a Philosophical Perspective
This chapter surveys the most philosophically pressing issues associated with food and climate change. It highlights the main scholarly...
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Cultural biodiversity unpacked, separating discourse from practice
In this article, we question to what extent origin-food labels, namely Geographical Indications (GIs) and Slow Food Presidia, may effectively account...
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Defective food concepts
Our aim in this paper is to employ conceptual negotiation to inform a method of rethinking defective food concepts, that is concepts that fail to...
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Doing but not knowing: how apple farmers comply with standards in China
Are public and private standards affecting farmer knowledge and moving farm practices toward food safety and environmental sustainability in China?...
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An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Attitudes toward Animal Welfare on Meat Consumption in Ghana
Meat is an important source of nutrients for human health and wellbeing. However, because meat intake is reportedly linked to diseases such as...
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Randomness and the Games of Science
Recently it has become clear that too many findings reported in the scientific literature are irreproducible. We study the causes of this phenomenon...
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Normalised, human-centric discourses of meat and animals in climate change, sustainability and food security literature
The large-scale, intensive production of meat and other animal products, also known as the animal-industrial complex, is our largest food system in...
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Framework for Re-thinking Ethics in the Organic Movement
Today, organic actors embody a mix of traditional and new values that emerge from the challenges confronted in a modern/post-modern society (see...
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Agricultural commodity branding in the rise and decline of the US food regime: from product to place-based branding in the global cotton trade, 1955–2012
Recent scholarship has focused on the tensions, contradictions, and limits of place-based branding through labels of origin, place-named agricultural...
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Positioning Organic Ethics
Olivier De Schutters provides the starting point for our final reflections on ethics in the organic agrofood chain. In his report for the Human...
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Feeding the World – The Contribution of IFOAM Principles
The kind of growth in food production needed to feed the world is one of today’s most widely discussed topics (Seufert et al. 2012; Ehrlich and...
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Co-operative or coyote? Producers’ choice between intermediary purchasers and Fairtrade and organic co-operatives in Chiapas
Coffee producers in many parts of the world have the option of either becoming a member of and selling their coffee to a Fairtrade and organic...
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Gender, health, labor, and inequities: a review of the fair and alternative trade literature
Although research into fair and alternative trade networks has increased significantly in recent years, very little synthesis of the literature has...
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Exploring the potential of intersectoral partnerships to improve the position of farmers in global agrifood chains: findings from the coffee sector in Peru
Despite their recent proliferation in global agricultural commodity chains, little is known about the potential of intersectoral partnerships to...
