Mara Miele

TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine understandings of the conventional food sector with analysis of alternative circuits so that they can show how different worlds of production come together in the sphere of food production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the aestheticisation of food in the context of eating out and distinguish two main aesthetic types: first, an "aesthetic of entertainment" in which food quality is secondary to the restaurant experience; second, a "gastronomic aesthetic", in which the quality of food, notably seasonality and freshness, is seen as primary.

TL;DR: A European standard for welfare assessment systems is needed in order to facilitate intra-European trade and marketing and to harmonise labelling that is informative and relevant to all European consumers.

TL;DR: Welfare Quality® as discussed by the authors was the largest ever European research project on animal welfare and identified future research priorities, potential strategies and organisational structures to build on the outcomes, including definition of principles and criteria of good welfare; development of standardised, primarily animal-based measures for each welfare criterion and their integration in an overall assessment model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the interaction of these policy goals in two regions where a rural development form of multifunctionality is favored. And they used farmers' entrepreneurial skills as an organizing framework, and relate farm development to both farm and farmer-specific factors as well as to their institutional, cultural, social and economic contexts.