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Relocalization and Cross-Scale Resilience
2000 - 2008
The period 2000–2008 foregrounded Relocalization and Cross-Scale Resilience as the dominant paradigm for food systems research, examining how local initiatives interface with global markets, policy regimes, and power asymmetries. Alternative Food Networks (AFN) emerged as engines of rural development and community resilience through short supply chains, local value creation, and producer–consumer linkages, with methodological framing and cross-national empirical cases guiding inquiry. Governance and planning studies analyzed public procurement, regulatory contexts, and institutional involvement, revealing how institutional involvement can enable or constrain AFN scale-up, while risk perceptions and cultural dimensions shaped legitimacy and adoption across ordinary communities.
• Relocalization and scale politics in food systems: a critical examination of locality, global linkages, and power asymmetries shaping how 'local' food initiatives interact with broader markets and policy frameworks, questioning localization as a universal cure for sustainability [3], [8], [15], [13], [2], [4].
• Alternative Food Networks (AFN) as drivers of rural development and community resilience through short supply chains, local value creation, and producer–consumer linkages; emphasizes methodological framing and empirical cases [1], [7], [9], [14], [10].
• Governance, planning, and institutional involvement in local food systems: public procurement, planning frameworks, and regulatory contexts that enable or constrain AFN scaling and community food initiatives [20], [11], [2], [3].
• Risk, knowledge regimes, legitimacy, and cultural dimensions shaping AFN adoption: food scares, ecological citizenship, and experiential attributes highlighted by ordinary people and community networks [6], [18], [7], [10].
Popular Keywords
Resilience-Driven Food Systems
2009 - 2017
Planetary-Local Food Resilience
2018 - 2024