Terry Marsden

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the development and incidence of alternative food networks within a European-wide context by developing a consistent definition of short food supply chains, and then examine empirical evidence concerning their incidence and rural development impact across seven EU member states.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of short food supply chains in rural development is explored and a three level typology of short supply chains is presented, namely, temporal, spatial, demand and associational or institutional.

TL;DR: In this paper, rural development is analyzed as a multi-level, multi-actor and multi-faceted process rooted in historical traditions that represents at all levels a fundamental rupture with the modernization project.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that quality in the food sector is closely linked to nature and the local embeddedness of supply chains and discuss the most appropriate theoretical approaches for the analysis of quality in food production and consumption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for a much morenuanced and complex understanding of the relationships between conventional and alternative food chains and their implications for rural development, and highlight the need to explore the competitive relationships that alternative food networks have with the conventional sector to expose power imbalance.