The sustainability of food chains is an issue consumers, policy makers, researchers, food
producers and suppliers are increasingly interested in. This interest is also confirmed by the …

Over the last decades, the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the
conventional agri-food system has and continues to be contested within both academic and …

The mainstream food system in the industrialized world is dominated by large, private
corporations, and is highly concentrated spatially and structurally, resulting in high levels of …

There is growing recognition that the direct marketing initiatives favored by many local food
activists and proponents often lack the capacity to meet rapidly expanding consumer …

Alternative food supply systems have been a subject of increasing interest for many decades
in various perspectives of food and agriculture studies. This paper contributes to the …

Activists and academics are increasingly advocating for public procurement of locally grown
food as a key market opportunity for farmers. In the United States, linking farmers directly …

Farm to school programs have been positioned as interventions that can support goals of
the global food sovereignty movement, including strengthening local food production …

While there is a growing literature on moral markets that aim to create social value through
market exchange, much of it has focused on how producer activism is able to legitimate new …

This document is based on the study of what a local digital food hub is. Topics such as the
sustainability of agri-food systems, de-agrarianization and the causes related to them are …

Abstract Excerpts from the Executive Summary: The US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
supports a growing range of farm to school activities in which schools work with local or …