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标题：Linking alternative food networks and urban food policy: a step forward in the transition towards a sustainable and equitable food system?
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作者：Raffaele Matacena
期刊名称：International Review of Social Research
电子版ISSN：2069-8534
出版年度：2016
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：49-58
DOI：10.1515/irsr-2016-0007
语种：English
出版社：Walter de Gruyter GmbH
摘要：Seen as a response to the incumbent crisis affecting the food system, alternative food networks are a promising link of a new food chain, founded on a sustainable paradigm. Their activities aim at realizing a process of ‘re-localization’ and ‘re-socialization’ of food production-distribution-consumption practices, holding a prospect for the construction of a more environmentally sound, socially just and economically sustainable local food system. In order to provide such benefits, though, a host of regulatory constraints and logistical and operational barriers have to be overcome. In this paper we argue that a potentially effective force supporting the development of alternative food networks is detectable in the rapidly diffusing trend constituted by the adoption, by local governments, of a set of urban food policies integrating food issues into the many spheres of urban regulation. Such policy effort may help to coordinate public intervention with the purpose of setting the ground for a healthy local/regional food system, and provide alternative food networks with stronger connections, political capital and legitimization.
关键词：Alternative food networks ; urban food policy ; food system ; food crisis ; sustainability ; food security