The political economy of "local foods" in Eastern Kansas

Thesis

Alternative agriculture and counter-cuisine movements have grown to a strong cultural current in Western European and North American societies. In recent years,these movements have begun to converge and coalesce around the concept of localizing agri-food relations and commodity chains as a way of redressing the deleterious environmental, social, and economic consequences of what are seen as dominant globalized food relations. This dissertation reports on a regional study in Eastern Kansas of ...

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Authors: Champion, B; Benjamin L. Champion

• Alternative title: opportunities and justice in emerging agro-food networks and markets
• Publication date: 2007
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: political economy; political ecology; network analysis; sustainable agriculture; local foods; alternative agri-food networks; conventions; urban development
• Subjects: Geography