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Localizing Global Food: Short Food Supply Chains as Responses to Agri-Food System Challenges

Localizing Global Food: Short Food Supply Chains as Responses to Agri-Food System Challenges

Kalfagianni, Agni
Skordili, Sophia

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

Business GeneralEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0367582996
ISBN13: 9780367582999
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2020
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Short food supply chains (SFSCs) rely primarily on local production and processing practices for the provision of food and are, in principle, more sustainable in social, economic and environmental terms than supply chains where production and consumption are widely separated.

This book reviews and assesses recent initiatives on this topic from an interdisciplinary perspective. In theoretical terms it draws on and advances two key concepts, namely, place (particularly embeddedness in local economic networks and communities) and governance (particularly in addressing sustainability concerns in an inclusive and socially just manner). Empirically, the book examines a diverse set of SFSCs such as small-scale entrepreneurship,

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