Peri-urban agriculture and alternative food networks in Athens: Solidarity dynamics, spatial planning challenges and institutional reforms

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-107
Author(s):  
Sofia Nikolaidou
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Alternative Food ◽  
Alternative Food Networks ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Food Networks

scholarly journals Organising Alternative Food Networks (AFNs): Challenges and Facilitating Conditions of different AFN types in three EU countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Poças Ribeiro ◽  
Robert Harmsen ◽  
Giuseppe Feola ◽  
Jesús Rosales Carréon ◽  
Ernst Worrell
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Food ◽  
Alternative Food Networks ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Food Networks ◽  
Facilitating Conditions

scholarly journals ALTERNATIVE FOOD NETWORKS AND NEW PRODUCER-CONSUMER RELATIONS IN FRANCE AND IN BRAZIL

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
MOACIR ROBERTO DAROLT ◽  
CLAIRE LAMINE ◽  
ALFIO BRANDENBURG ◽  
MARIA DE CLÉOFAS FAGGION ALENCAR ◽  
LUCIMAR SANTIAGO ABREU
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Alternative Food ◽  
Alternative Food Networks ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
Food Networks ◽  
Short Circuits ◽  
The Government

Abstract This paper presents an analysis about agroecological alternative food networks and new producer-consumer relationships in France and Brazil. The investigation method is based on descriptive and qualitative research about 20 cases (qualitative interviews), selected with stakeholders (farmers, traders, consumers and food experts) in France and Southern Brazil. A typology about the characteristics and organization to short circuits trade is provided. The results show that alternative food networks are very diverse and dynamic, being a social, economic and environmental option to family farming, strengthening local markets and reconnecting producers and consumers. In these countries, the successful initiatives of alternative networks occur in places where there is coordination between food networks stakholders such as the government, NGOs, private enterprises, farmers and consumers' organizations.

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