Progressing knowledge in alternative and local food networks: Critical reflections and a research agenda

By A. Tregear. 2011

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Agritourism and Sustainability: What We Can Learn from a Systematic Literature Review (2020, background): “To better exploit such evolution patterns, farmers and other organizations have started organizing themselves in rural networks deploying alternative business models aimed to guarantee competitive advantages, to improve farm revenue streams, to resume taking an active role in the agrifood system, an”
Building Food Democracy: Exploring Civic Food Networks and Newly Emerging Forms of Food Citizenship (2012, background): “…as a delimitation for an explorative analysis of the newly emerging phenomenon of counter-hegemonic food networks since the 1990s, it has proven less adequate for 292 Henk Renting et al. more detailed analyses and in addressing recent tendencies (see also Holloway et al., 2007; tregear, 2011).”
Food and Gastronomy for Sustainable Place Development: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Different Theoretical Approaches (2017, background): “As the authors argue, “scale” is socially constructed; therefore, it should not be considered an ontological entity but rather a strategy to achieve a particular goal [47].”
From Short Food Supply Chains to Sustainable Agriculture in Urban Food Systems: Food Democracy as a Vector of Transition (2016, background): “The notion of ‘embeddedness’ has often been used to characterize alternative local food networks in opposition to the agro-industrial model [1,39]: while the latter is associated with anonymous, ‘cold’, and often unfair relations, local food networks have been presented as favoring personal, authent”
Competitiveness of Small Farms and Innovative Food Supply Chains: The Role of Food Hubs in Creating Sustainable Regional and Local Food Systems (2016, background): “As it is in the literature on AAFNS, the risk is a tendency to conflate the spatial or structural characteristics of FHs with specific desirable outcomes or actor behaviours [17].”
Characterizing alternative food networks in China (2015, background): “2005), have attracted a great deal of scholarly attention since the mid-1990s (e.g., Goodman 2003, 2004; Maye et al. 2007; Tregear 2011).”
Shortening food supply chains: A means for maintaining agriculture close to urban areas? The case of the French metropolitan area of Paris ☆ (2013, background): “The expectations of actors and even academics towards SSFCs have been/still are quite high be it in terms of environment, social and economic sustainability (Tregear, 2011).”
A Theory of Planned behaviour perspective for investigating the role of trust in consumer purchasing decision related to short food supply chains (2018, background): “Many authors (Hartmann, Klink, & Simons, 2015; Hunt, 2007; Schneider, 2008; Tregear, 2011; Trobe, 2001) have found that the direct interaction between farmers and consumers and repeated encounters can provide consumers with a sense of trust built on a shared know-how and a mutual understanding with…”