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Equity and resilience in local urban food systems: a case study
Local food systems can have economic and social benefits by providing income for producers and improving community connections. Ongoing global...
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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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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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Reviving shekhawati food and local food system through commoning: a case from Nawalgarh, India
Regional food is grounded in local practices and heritage. With industrialization and post-green revolution threat to food produced within specific...
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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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Untangling the role of social relationships for overcoming challenges in local food systems: a case study of farmers in Québec, Canada
Advocates for re-localizing food systems often encourage consumers to support local farmers and strengthen local food economies. Yet, local food...
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Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue: understanding the relationships between food and nutrition infrastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access
Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and...
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Exploring settler-Indigenous engagement in food systems governance
Within food systems governance spaces, civil society organizations (CSOs) play important roles in addressing power structures and sha** decisions....
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Through Forks to Fields: Backcasting Workshops in Japan for Designing Sustainable Local Food Systems
This chapter introduces case studies of the backcasting workshop for designing sustainable local food systems in Japan and describes each stage of...
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Promoting Food Sovereignty in the Sahel: Lessons from Indigenous Food Systems
Indigenous food systems represent a treasure trove of knowledge that contributes to well-being and health, benefiting communities, preserving a rich...
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Lifestyle or profit? The complex decision-making criteria for local food entrepreneurs
The purpose of this paper is to provide a holistic examination of local food entrepreneurs (LFE) across the local food system (LFS) of a specific...
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A Values Framework for Evaluating Alienation in Off-Earth Food Systems
Given the technological constraints of long-duration space travel and planetary settlement, off-Earth humans will likely need to employ food systems...
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Food insecurity and the covid pandemic: uneven impacts for food bank systems in Europe
Over the past few decades, large food banks that collect, warehouse, and redistribute food have become institutionalized across Europe. Although food...
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Re-centering labour in local food: local washing and the growing reliance on permanently temporary migrant farmworkers in Nova Scotia
This article explores the labour behind local food in the Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. Based on surveys and interviews with farmers,...
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Marginality in the berry fields: hierarchical ordering of food and agrarian systems in Norway
Although being essential to sustaining food production, migrant workers continuously find themselves at the bottom of the social and power hierarchy...
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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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Organising Food Systems Through Ecologies of Care: A Relational Approach
Concerns over the organising of food are widespread, stemming from unsustainable production practices that focus on extractive ‘use’ of resources...
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Rethinking the Alternatives: Food Sovereignty as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Food Security
The concept of food sovereignty is primarily taken as an alternative to the prevailing neoliberal food security model. However, the approach has...
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Between the farm and the fork: job quality in sustainable food systems
Advocates for structural change in the food system see opportunity in alternative food systems (AFS) to bolster sustainability and equity. Indeed,...
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(Un)intended lock-in: Chile’s organic agriculture law and the possibility of transformation towards more sustainable food systems
Food systems transformations require coherent policies and improved understandings of the drivers and institutional dynamics that shape...