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  1. Producers’ transition to alternative food practices in rural China: social mobilization and cultural reconstruction in the formation of alternative economies.Qian Forrest Zhang - forthcoming - Agriculture and Human Values:1-16.
    The shift from the conventional agri-food system to alternative practices is a challenging transition for agricultural producers, yet surprisingly under-studied. Little research has examined the social and cultural processes in rural communities that mobilize producers and construct and sustain producer-driven alternative food networks (AFNs). For AFNs to go beyond just offering “alternative foods” or “alternative networks” and to be constructed as “alternative economies”, this transformation in the producer community is indispensable. This paper presents a case study of a rural cooperative (...)
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  • Beyond social embeddedness: probing the power relations of alternative food networks in China.Miaomiao Qi - forthcoming - Agriculture and Human Values:1-13.
    Food justice scholars have criticized alternative food networks (AFNs) for lacking concern about gender, class, race, and ethnicity, thus not addressing structural inequalities. This paper further suggests that the incorporation of social justice into AFNs’ on-the-ground operations is critical in creating a more sustainable and just agri-food system that challenges the industrial and corporate-controlled food system. By exploring an urban–rural mutual aid cooperative in southwest China, this paper highlights a localized AFN that has successfully cultivated close social ties between ethnic (...)
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  • Understanding the organization of sharing economy in agri-food systems: evidence from alternative food networks in Valencia.Stefano Pascucci, Domenico Dentoni & Isabel Miralles - 2017 - Agriculture and Human Values 34 (4):833-854.
    Despite the proliferation of sharing economy initiatives in agri-food systems, the recent literature has still not unravelled what sharing exactly entails from an organizational standpoint. In light of this knowledge gap, this study aims to understand which resources are shared, and how, in a heterogeneous set of sharing economy initiatives in the context of food and agriculture. Specifically, this study compares the organization of various forms of alternative food networks, which are recognized to be frugal forms of sharing economy initiatives, (...)
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  • ‘I will know it when I taste it’: trust, food materialities and social media in Chinese alternative food networks.Leigh Martindale - 2020 - Agriculture and Human Values 38 (2):365-380.
    Trust is often an assumed outcome of participation in Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) as they directly connect producers with consumers. It is based on this potential for trust “between producers and consumers” that AFNs have emerged as a significant field of food studies analysis as it also suggests a capacity for AFNs to foster associated embedded qualities, like ‘morality’, ‘social justice’, ‘ecology’ and ‘equity’. These positive benefits of AFNs, however, cannot be taken for granted as trust is not necessarily an (...)
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  • The spaces and times of community farming.Pingyang Liu, Paul Gilchrist, Becky Taylor & Neil Ravenscroft - 2017 - Agriculture and Human Values 34 (2):363-375.
    This paper uses a multiple case study approach to researching people’s everyday lives and experiences of six community farms and gardens in diverse settings in China and England. We argue that collective understandings of community are bound up in everyday action in particular spaces and times. Successful community farms and gardens are those that are able to provide suitable spaces and times for these actions so that their members can enjoy multiple benefit streams. These benefits are largely universal: in very (...)
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  • Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight.Petr Jehlička, Huidi Ma, Tomáš Kostelecký & Joe Smith - forthcoming - Agriculture and Human Values:1-13.
    Drawing on an exploratory study of urban food self-provisioning (FSP) in China, this article argues that progress in sustainability scholarship can be accelerated by embracing a greater diversity of framings of sustainability. It brings four important empirical findings concerning the prevalence of Chinese urban FSP, the social diversity of its practitioners, their primarily non-economic motivations, and production methods meeting the criteria for organic food that are deployed by more than a third of urban food growers. On this basis, the article (...)
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  • Analyzing the implications of organic standardization and certification in alternative food networks: The capability approach.Felipe Alexandre de Lima, Daiane Mülling Neutzling, Stefan Seuring, Vikas Kumar & Marilia Bonzanini Bossle - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (4):1547-1562.
    Although organic standards and certification schemes have a crucial role in ensuring quality, safety, and sustainability within food systems, there is a need to critically analyze their implications on human capabilities within alternative food networks (AFNs). Therefore, this paper draws upon the capability approach to analyze the implications of three governance mechanisms (i.e., third-party, social control, and hybrid certification) on human flourishing within AFNs in Ceará, Brazil. The three cases primarily build on 66 interviews with farmers, consumers, AFN owners and (...)
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  • Building the local food movement in Chiapas, Mexico: rationales, benefits, and limitations.Laurel Bellante - 2017 - Agriculture and Human Values 34 (1):119-134.
    Alternative food networks have become a common response to the socio-ecological injustices generated by the industrialized food system. Using a political ecology framework, this paper evaluates the emergence of an AFN in Chiapas, Mexico. While the Mexican context presents a particular set of challenges, the case study also reveals the strength the alternative food movement derives from a diverse network of actors committed to building a “community economy” that reasserts the multifunctional values of organic agriculture and local commodity chains. Nonetheless, (...)
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