Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are increasingly garnering attention in food systems
research, owing to their rising popularity among consumers, producers and policy-makers in …

Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development.
Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are …

The special issue titled 'Values‐based Territorial Food Networks–Benefits, challenges and
controversies' and this introductory editorial aim to bridge conceptual and disciplinary …

This book provides the first systematic and accessible text for students of hospitality and the
culinary arts that directly addresses how more sustainable restaurants and commercial food …

This article combines a 'zoomed‐out'political economic analysis of Dutch agriculture with a
more 'zoomed‐in'empirical exploration of small new entrant farmers who are carving out …

Introduction Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an emerging model within
alternative food networks (AFNs). It shapes close relationships between food producers and …

Around the world, food security assessments are used by Non-Governmental Organizations
and states to assess caloric sufficiency, hunger, and dietary diversity in order to evaluate …

The current industrial food system is failing in all aspects of sustainability. Alternative Food
Initiatives (AFIs) and the industrial green food market (iGFM) both claim that they are …

Since the mid-1990s, there has been a growing interest among consumers and producers in
downscaling to a local level the length of the agri-food chains as a solution for fairer and …

This comparative literature review of local food systems, short food supply chains, and civic
food networks, subsumed under alternative food networks (AFN), suggests converging them …