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

Tregear, Angela

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.06.003

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“…Researchers have stressed the hazards of unwittingly conflating certain spatial/structural characteristics, such as those associated with local and alternative food networks, and with environmentally or socially desirable outcomes (Dupuis and Goodman, 2005;Tregear, 2011). Hence we have framed the methodology and explored the data with the goal of revealing more about the environmental and social dimensions of FSP.…”

Section: Food Self-provisioning As a Sustainable Practice: Czech And mentioning

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Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe's productive gardeners

Smith

Jehlička

2013

Journal of Rural Studies

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This paper investigates notable examples of sustainable lifestyles in relation to food systems. It explores the surprisingly neglected case of widely practised and environmentally sustainable food self-provisioning in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. Our argument is rooted in qualitative and quantitative data gathered over a seven-year period (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011). The research considers the extent of and motivations for these practices in Poland and Czechia. The very high rates compared to Western Europe and North America have generally been explained in terms of an 'urban peasantry' meeting essential needs. After reviewing and rejecting those accounts we present evidence for these as socially and environmentally beneficial practices, and explore how the motivations derive from a range of feelings about food, quality, capability and family and / or friendship. Rather than relate these practices to temporal signals of quality and sustainability in food ('slow' and 'fast'), or presenting them as 'alternative food networks' we suggest that they represent 'quiet sustainability'. This novel concept summarises widespread practices that result in beneficial environmental or social outcomes and that do not relate directly or indirectly to market transactions, but are not represented by their practitioners as relating directly to environmental or sustainability goals. These practices represent exuberant, appealing and socially inclusive, but also unforced, forms of sustainability. This case further demonstrates the severe limitations of decision makers' focus on economics and behaviour change, and their neglect of other dimensions of social life and change in developing environmental policies.

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Section: Food Self-provisioning As a Sustainable Practice: Czech And mentioning

confidence: 99%

Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe's productive gardeners

Smith

Jehlička

2013

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…(see Forssell and Lankoski, 2015;Jarosz, 2008;Marsden et al, 2008;Sonnino and Marsden, 2006;Tregear, 2011;Venn et al, 2006;Wiskerke, 2009). …”

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Effects of consumer-producer interactions in alternative food networks on consumers’ learning about food and agriculture

Opitz

Specht

Piorr

et al. 2017

Moravian Geographical Reports

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In the recent literature, Alternative Food Networks (AFN) topics of consumer-producer interactions (CPI). The present study aims (1) to develop an analytical framework relying on six CPI domains and (2) to apply it to investigate CPI effects on consumers' learning about and appreciation of agriculture. We conducted 26 guided interviews with consumers and producers of the three most frequent AFN types in Germany: community-supported agriculture (CSA), food coops, and self-harvest gardens. The results show that AFN participation enhances consumers' learning about food (seasonality, cooking/nutrition, housekeeping aspects) and agricultural production (farmers' perspectives, cultivation). Our results show that consumer's learning is influenced by certain CPI domains

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“…Such narrow interpretations of food security and the global food crisis have negative implications for the role and development of local food systems; although more holistic interpretations potentially provide significant opportunities for the latter to make an active contribution. Local food systems represent a significant part of the broader alternative food movement (see Tregear, 2011;Watts et al, 2005), to the extent that the notion of 'local food' has become something of a mantra for those intent on developing alternatives to the mainstream food supply chain, with a wide range of research undertaken on the role of local food in rural geography and cognate disciplines (e.g. Dowler et al, 2004;Holloway et al, 2007;Ilbery and Maye, 2006;Ricketts Hein et al, 2006;Thatcher and Sharp, 2008;Weatherell et al, 2003).…”

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Food security framings within the UK and the integration of local food systems

Kirwan

Maye

2013

Journal of Rural Studies

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DisclaimerThe University of Gloucestershire has obtained warranties from all depositors as to their title in the material deposited and as to their right to deposit such material.The University of Gloucestershire makes no representation or warranties of commercial utility, title, or fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, express or implied in respect of any material deposited.The University of Gloucestershire makes no representation that the use of the materials will not infringe any patent, copyright, trademark or other property or proprietary rights.The University of Gloucestershire accepts no liability for any infringement of intellectual property rights in any material deposited but will remove such material from public view pending investigation in the event of an allegation of any such infringement. PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR TEXT.This is a peer-reviewed, pre-print version of the following published document: DisclaimerThe University of Gloucestershire has obtained warranties from all depositors as to their title in the material deposited and as to their right to deposit such material.The University of Gloucestershire makes no representation or warranties of commercial utility, title, or fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, express or implied in respect of any material deposited.The University of Gloucestershire makes no representation that the use of the materials will not infringe any patent, copyright, trademark or other property or proprietary rights.The University of Gloucestershire accepts no liability for any infringement of intellectual property rights in any material deposited but will remove such material from public view pending investigation in the event of an allegation of any such infringement.PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR TEXT. Note: This is a pre-publication copy of the paper which was submitted and published in Journal of Rural Studies (2013, Vol 29, pp. 91-100) 2 Food security framings within the UK and the integration of local food systems AbstractThis paper provides a critical interpretation of food security politics in the UK. It applies the notion of food security collective action frames to assess how specific action frames are maintained and contested. The interdependency between scale and framing in food security discourse is also scrutinised. It does this through an examination of 'official' UK food security approaches and the place of local food systems within these debates. The paper shows how the UK government's approach to food production and food security has been underpinned by the notion of resilience, which it considers is best achieved through sustainable intensification, market liberalisation and risk management, with local food systems largely sidelined within these 'official' framings. Nevertheless, collective action frames are socio-political constructs which are open to contestation; they are not static entities and are part of a mobile multiorganizational political field. The notion of incompleteness and fragility is highly pertinent to ...

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

Cited by 439 publications

References 72 publications

Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe's productive gardeners

Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe's productive gardeners

Effects of consumer-producer interactions in alternative food networks on consumers’ learning about food and agriculture

Food security framings within the UK and the integration of local food systems

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