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Rural Europe Redux? Reflections on Alternative Agro‐Food Networks and Paradigm Change

Rural Europe Redux? Reflections on Alternative Agro‐Food Networks and Paradigm Change This paper examines some recent analyses of alternative agro‐food networks (AAFNs) and claims that these innovative modes of food provisioning are emblematic of a new rural development paradigm in Western Europe. A political‐economic critique of the territorialised, farm‐centric value added strategies underlying these claims suggests that this characterisation is overdrawn and premature. The neglect of the consumption side of the rural development equation also argues for a more modest assessment of AAFNs and their paradigmatic potential. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Sociologia Ruralis Wiley

Rural Europe Redux? Reflections on Alternative Agro‐Food Networks and Paradigm Change

Sociologia Ruralis , Volume 44 (1) – Jan 1, 2004

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2004 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0038-0199
eISSN
1467-9523
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9523.2004.00258.x
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Abstract

This paper examines some recent analyses of alternative agro‐food networks (AAFNs) and claims that these innovative modes of food provisioning are emblematic of a new rural development paradigm in Western Europe. A political‐economic critique of the territorialised, farm‐centric value added strategies underlying these claims suggests that this characterisation is overdrawn and premature. The neglect of the consumption side of the rural development equation also argues for a more modest assessment of AAFNs and their paradigmatic potential.

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Sociologia RuralisWiley

Published: Jan 1, 2004

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