Building alternative agri-food networks: Certification, embeddedness and agri-environmental governance

Higgins, Vaughan; Dibden, Jacqueline Lineton; Cocklin, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2007.06.002

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“…While some of this concern with business ethics has been driven by anti-corporate campaigning (Sadler, 2004) and various alternative trade movements, the business case has been established more rigorously than the development case. The gains for the company of having a good ethical reputation (attracting and retaining recruits, improving brand image, increasing influence with policy makers, and attracting investment), and of extending its markets beyond conventional supply chains through certification (Higgins et al, 2008), are more obvious than, for example, than the extent to which workers are empowered by codes of practice or their conditions of work improved (Nelson et al, 2002;. 5 labour regime inherited from slavery persists.…”

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The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry

McEwan

Bek

2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry

McEwan

Bek

2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…This excludes community supported agriculture, solidarity economy, fair trade, and home production and consumption. In general, all SFC are embedded in socioeconomic relationships that go beyond the instrumental goal of profit, instead involving the substantive (re)production of ties connecting producers, distributors, and consumers [22][23][24]. As such, SFC rely on an economy of proximity, such as geographic proximity, the closeness of the food production area to urban consumption [25,26].…”

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An Eco-Egalitarian Solution to the Capitalist Consumer Paradox: Integrating Short Food Chains and Public Market Systems

Pensado-Leglise

Smolski

2017

Agriculture

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Presently, alternative agri-food networks are in a renaissance, utilizing an economy of proximity to compete against transnational agri-business and food distributors. While this is positive ecologically and socioeconomically, the overreliance on market mechanisms in short food chains has led to class distinctions in food distribution and consumption. The result has been a capitalist consumer paradox exacerbating inequality in the alternative agri-food networks. To resolve this inequality, we focused on how public policy can leverage state investment in public markets to reduce or overcome the capitalist consumer paradox in short food chains. To clarify our argument, we began by examining the benefits of short food chains in the urban food system. Then, we explained how type of consumption and policy regime effect food access. After this, we utilized Mexico City and New York City's public market systems as representative of an alternative policy regime and the effects of moving away from state-oriented development. We concluded by describing possible conflicts and complements to the integration of public markets into short urban food chains.

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“…New organizational networks, based on processes of synergic collaboration, between farmers, consumers and other rural actors emerged in recent years in order to propose solutions for the rural community question [5] [19]. Various studies [20] [21], state that farmers might be able to realize their expectations by shortening long and complex agrifood supply chains and by embedding high "typical and quality" features, strictly linked to local agrifood products, within their production processes. AAFNs give farmers a direct means to increase their revenues by reducing intermediaries along the supply chain as well as the opportunity to strengthen relationship with consumers, by offering "personal" quality guarantees on products [11] [20].…”

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The Potential of Agritourism in Revitalizing Rural Communities: Some Empirical Results

Ammirato

Felicetti

2013

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Modern patterns of rural development propose a rational and respectful exploitation of agricultural resources together with the rediscovery of historical and naturalistic heritage as means to reach sustainable development. In this sense, Agritourism represents the contact point between the tourists' request of wellbeing, genuineness and rediscovery of nature, and the offer of typical agricultural products and touristic services of a network of rural organizations. The aim of this study is to improve our understanding of how agritourism activities can contribute to revitalize rural communities; the study assumes particular importance in a period of economic crisis characterized by the failure of the traditional patterns of rural development. We present key findings of an explorative survey carried out in the Calabria region, Italy, during 2012 on a sample of 52 farms offering agritourism activities. The study deploys an original methodology aimed to highlight the extent of the agritourism phenomena in the selected region and to evaluate how agritourism can support sustainable development of a rural community becoming the hub of an "agritourism rural network".

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Building alternative agri-food networks: Certification, embeddedness and agri-environmental governance

Cited by 195 publications

References 36 publications

The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry

The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry

An Eco-Egalitarian Solution to the Capitalist Consumer Paradox: Integrating Short Food Chains and Public Market Systems

The Potential of Agritourism in Revitalizing Rural Communities: Some Empirical Results

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