Volume 24, Issue 1 (2017)
Special Issue
EVOLUTIONS IN THE MIDDLE: TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON VALUES-BASED FOOD CHAINS
Editorial Introduction
Values-based Food Chains from a Transatlantic Perspective:
Exploring a Middle Tier of Agri-food System Development 1-14
Marcia Ostrom, Kathryn De Master, Egon Noe and Markus Schermer
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Articles
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Values and Volume in Sustainable Organic Market Chains: A Multi-perspectival Analysis 15-36
Claire Lamine and Egon Bjørnshave Noe
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It’s Not Always about Growth! Development Dynamics and Management in Food Businesses and Chains 37-55
Susanne von Münchhausen, Anna Maria Häring, Gunn-Turid Kvam and Karlheinz Knickel
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From ‘Additive’ to ‘Multiplicative’ Patterns of Growth 57-76
Markus Schermer
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Can Values-based Food Chains Advance Local and Sustainable Food Systems?
Evidence from Case Studies of University 77-95
Procurement in Canada and the UK
Lori Stahlbrand
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Values in Motion: The Local Organic Food Co-ops Network in Ontario, Canada 97-111
Jennifer Sumner
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What’s Going into the Box?
An Inquiry into the Social and Ecological Embeddedness of Large-scale EU and US Box Schemes 113-134
Marcia Ostrom, Chris Kjeldsen, Susanne Kummer, Rebecka Milestad and Markus Schermer
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Organic Values-Based Supply Chains as a Tool for Territorial Development:
A Comparative Analysis of Three European Organic Regions 135-154
Rike Stotten, Sibylle Bui, Patrizia Pugliese, Markus Schermer and Claire Lamine
International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Published by Michigan State University
Official publication of the Research Committee on Sociology of Agriculture and Food (RC-40)
of the International Sociological Association (ISA)
Editors: Raymond Jussaume, Claire Marris and Katerina Psarikidou
Frequency: 3 issues per year
ISSN: 0798-1759