What's Alternative about Alternative Food Networks?

By S. Whatmore, P. Stassart, H. Renting. 2003

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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Quality Food, Public Procurement, and Sustainable Development: The School Meal Revolution in Rome (2009, background): “…(Harvey et al, 2004a, page 3), alternative food systems redistribute value-added gains across the food chain, reconvene `trust' between producers and consumers, and articulate new forms of political and market governance (Marsden et al, 2000; Renting et al, 2003; Whatmore et al, 2003).”
Fighting Standards with Standards: Harmonization, Rents, and Social Accountability in Certified Agrofood Networks (2005, background): “…form a chapter within a standards document and concern practices necessary to quality assurance and transparency of inspections and documentationöin sum, practices said to provide a technical means to `reconvene trust' between globally-separated producers and consumers (Whatmore et al, 2003).”
From Short Food Supply Chains to Sustainable Agriculture in Urban Food Systems: Food Democracy as a Vector of Transition (2016, background): “Although their alternative dimension has been discussed [2,3], all these initiatives share the same ‘promise’ of more sustainable ways of producing, processing, and/or selling food [4] which demonstrate a ‘turn to quality’ in both agriculture and consumption [5].”
Common ground? Motivations for participation in a community-supported agriculture scheme (2008, unknown): “As such, there has been a focus on how small-scale producers can “add value” to their food products by prioritising, for example, food “quality” (Gilg and Battershill 1998) or the fostering of “localised” food production–consumption networks (see Norberg-Hodge et al. 2002, Sage 2003, Winter 2003, Wh”
Making reconnections in agro-food geography: alternative systems of food provision (2005, unknown): “(cf. Whatmore et al., 2003).”
Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture (2012, background): “…work “against the logic of bulk [high volume, low cost] commodity production, alternative food networks redistribute value through the food chain, reconvene ‘trust’ between producers and consumers, and articulate new forms of political association and market governance” (Whatmore et al. 2003:289).”
Progressing knowledge in alternative and local food networks: Critical reflections and a research agenda (2011, background): “…regarding the social justice characteristics of AFNs, the argument being that as AFNs can reconfigure relations between producers and consumers (Whatmore et al, 2003; Kirwan, 2006; Feagan, 2007), bringing these actors into closer proximity and mutual understanding, the resulting relationships…”
Environmental Certification of Forests in Mexico: The Political Ecology of a Nongovernmental Market Intervention (2006, background): “By clarifying the social and environmental consequences of production, certification interventions might be a form of resistance to market values with the potential to transform conventional systems of production or offer alternatives to those systems (Whatmore, Stassart, and Renting 2003).”
The Urban Creative-Food Economy: Producing Food for the Urban Elite or Social Inclusion Opportunity? (2006, background): “If indeed North Americans are more motivated to reduce pesticides than they are to reconnect with local tastes and sustainable economic practices, then the difference between North American and Western European culture and politics could intensify (Whatmore et al, 2003).”
The quality of sustainability: Agroecological partnerships and the geographic branding of California winegrapes (2007, background): “Despite the claims of being alternative, much labeled food mimics conventional foods quite closely (Buck et al., 1997; Guthman, 2004a; Whatmore et al., 2002).”
Unfolding Webs: The Dynamics of Regional Rural Development (2008, background): “Alternative food networks redistribute value through the food chain, rebuild 'trust' between producers and consumers and articulate new forms of political association and market governance (Whatmore et al. 2003).”