Scholarship on alternative food networks: from mid-life crisis to life begins at 40?

Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) involve alliances that develop novel practices of food provision that are more in tune with . . . values, norms, needs, and desires, that build on the reproduction and revaluation of local sources, and that result in food of distinct and better appreciated qualities (Roep & Wiskerke, 2012, p. 206). AFNs can take many forms and models (Cicatiello, 2020), including Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), solidarity purchasing groups, community gardens and allotments, consumer food co-operatives, civic food movements and charters, as well as farmers’ market,