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  1. Reconnecting through local food initiatives? Purpose, practice and conceptions of ‘value’.Cayla Albrecht & John Smithers - 2018 - Agriculture and Human Values 35 (1):67-81.
    Reconnection between producers and consumers is often presented as an integral part of the local food narrative. However, questions can arise as to whether local food producers and their food purchasers align in mindset and the value proposition that underpins their involvement. This paper draws on interview data collected from producers and consumers participating in direct-sell meat operations to explore so-called value propositions between these two actors in local food initiatives in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. We suggest that because producers and (...)
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  • Scaling up alternative food networks: farmers' markets and the role of clustering in western Canada. [REVIEW]Mary A. Beckie, Emily Huddart Kennedy & Hannah Wittman - 2012 - Agriculture and Human Values 29 (3):333-345.
    Farmers’ markets, often structured as non-profit or cooperative organizations, play a prominent role in emerging alternative food networks of western Canada. The contribution of these social economy organizations to network development may relate, in part, to the process of regional clustering. In this study we explore the nature and significance of farmers’ market clustering in the western Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, focusing on the possible connection between clustering and a “scaling up” of alternative food networks. Survey and (...)
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  • Growing local food: scale and local food systems governance.Phil Mount - 2012 - Agriculture and Human Values 29 (1):107-121.
    Abstract“Scaling-up” is the next hurdle facing the local food movement. In order to effect broader systemic impacts, local food systems (LFS) will have to grow, and engage either more or larger consumers and producers. Encouraging the involvement of mid-sized farms looks to be an elegant solution, by broadening the accessibility of local food while providing alternative revenue streams for troubled family farms. Logistical, structural and regulatory barriers to increased scale in LFS are well known. Less is understood about the way (...)
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  • Institutional entrepreneurship and the negotiation and blending of multiple logics in the Southern Arizona local food system.Matthew M. Mars & Hope Jensen Schau - 2017 - Agriculture and Human Values 34 (2):407-422.
    In this paper, we explore the entrepreneurial leadership strategies and routine work of actors located across a diverse array of organizational settings that combine to shape and sustain the Southern Arizona local food system. We use the theoretical principles of institutional entrepreneurship and logic multiplicity to show how the strategies and routine work of local food actors at the organizational level combine to negotiate system-level meaning and structure within and across the Southern AZ LFS, which is an otherwise seemingly fragmented (...)
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  • Relationship Patterns in Food Purchase: Observing Social Interactions in Different Shopping Environments.Clara Cicatiello, Barbara Pancino, Stefano Pascucci & Silvio Franco - 2015 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 28 (1):21-42.
    The social dimension of purchase seems particularly important when it comes to food, since it can contribute to foster “consumers’ embeddedness” in the local food system. The discussion on this topic is growing after the emergence of alternative food networks , which are thought to have potentials to re-connect the different actors of local food systems, and/or to strengthen the existing social ties among them. This study focuses on the evaluation of the degree of sociality in different food shopping environments. (...)
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