Alternative Food Networks: a Sicilian Experience Promoted by Critical Farmers
Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Silvia Sivini
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/102
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 66-80 File size 204 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2013-102005
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The processes of transition in the food systems are often sustained by farmers’ innovations. The author discusses the results of an empirical research on innovative strategies adopted by organic/biodynamic Sicilian producers promoting a strong alternative food network. The research outlines the presence of an innovative path connected to the development of critical consumption, especially by GASes. The producers investigated can be define as critical farmers. Their characteristics and their practices in developing a strong alternative food network are analyzed focusing on the creation of social and political change and in promoting food democracy.
Keywords: Alternative Food Networks; Organic Production; Short Food Chains; Solidarity Economy; Critical Consumption; Critical Farmers.
Silvia Sivini, Reti alimentari alternative: un’esperienza siciliana promossa da produttori critici in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 102/2013, pp 66-80, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2013-102005