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Values-Based Territorial Food Networks (VTFN): conceptual framework spanning Local Food Systems (LFS), Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC), Civic Food Networks (CFN) and Alternative Food Networks (AFN)
Reckinger, Rachel
202115th European Sociological Association Conference: "Sociological knowledges for alternative futures"
 

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Keywords :
Values-Based Territorial Food Networks (VTFN); Literature review; Alternative Food Networks (AFN); Local Food Systems (LFS); Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC); Civic Food Networks (CFN)
Abstract :
[en] Localized food growing and livestock rearing initiatives with more direct transformation and commercialization structures, often at comparably small scales, gained ground worldwide. They represent various types of ‘alternatives’ to industrialised agri-food processes and to standard producers/consumers divides characterizing the global food system. While these alternatives are not always new, they have sparked growing scholarly interest. Over time, the literature has addressed them via four main conceptual denominations: Local Food Systems (LFS), Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs), Civic Food Networks (CFS), Alternative Food Networks (AFN). These concepts have distinct foci, partial overlaps, and they seek to capture an immense heterogeneity of empirical phenomena. Yet this conceptual plurality risks to conceal that these empirical initiatives, despite their differences, have structural commonalities at food system level, relevant for understanding pathways to a sustainable food system transformation. Therefore, I argue for an overarching concept subsuming the existing ones. Values-based Territorial Food Networks (VTFN) would take into account the diverse perspectives from the four main concepts in this field, classify their specificities and address their shortcomings. The social critique at their core, leading to transitions, is constructed around values of ’doing things differently’, at the level of specific territories. The more robust and authentic these sustainability values in VTFN are – in terms of environmental integrity, social well-being, economic resilience and ethical governance – the more likely they are to be incorporated into practices, to become more and more legitimate and gain a voice at negotiation tables, in order to help reorient the current corporate agrifood regime.
Disciplines :
Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Reckinger, Rachel ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Humanities (DHUM)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Values-Based Territorial Food Networks (VTFN): conceptual framework spanning Local Food Systems (LFS), Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC), Civic Food Networks (CFN) and Alternative Food Networks (AFN)
Publication date :
02 September 2021
Event name :
15th European Sociological Association Conference: "Sociological knowledges for alternative futures"
Event organizer :
European Sociological Association
Event place :
Barcelona, Spain
Event date :
31-08-2021 to 03-09-2021
Audience :
International
Focus Area :
Sustainable Development
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Name of the research project :
Sustainable Food Practices
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