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The region in food—important or irrelevant?
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In this article, the authors identify three cross-cutting impulses towards the re-regionalization of food: re-scaling, re-spacing and re-connection, but stress that the ways these are played out is contingent on the interplay of diverse social, political and bio-physical processes.Abstract:
There has been an explosion of interest in 're-localized' and 're-connected' modes of food provision, which could provide solutions to the socio-economic and environmental problems associated with food production and consumption. Within this context, this paper aims to critically review the significance of the 'region' for debates about future food systems. It identifies three cross-cutting impulses towards the (re)-regionalization of food: re-scaling, re-spacing and re-connection, but stresses that the ways these are played out is contingent on the interplay of diverse social, political and bio-physical processes. The paper concludes by proposing several further research agendas to develop a more rigorous understanding of the potential for regional food networks to address growing demands for the sustainable and fair provision of food. Copyright 2010, Oxford University Press.read more
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The social construction of scale
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The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration
TL;DR: A critical reading of Sallie Marston's (2000) recent article in this journal on 'The social construction of scale', and a critical examination of the influential notion of a politics 'of'scale' are explored in this article.
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Food supply chain approaches: exploring their role in rural development.
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.
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Avoiding the Local Trap Scale and Food Systems in Planning Research
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