Cet article décrit la conception et la mise en Å“uvre d'un dispositif expérimental visant à approvisionner en fruits et légumes régionaux les centres de distribution des Restos du cÅ“ur de l'Hérault. Pour cela, les auteurs mobilisent une sociologie de l'action collective qui...

Les auteurs se proposent d'appliquer aux relations marchandes la Théorie de la Régulation Sociale de Jean-Daniel Reynaud. A travers cette grille d'analyse, ils restituent les résultats d'une enquête de terrain menée auprès d'initiatives visant à développer un approvisionnement de la...

Les auteurs se proposent d'appliquer aux relations marchandes la Théorie de la Régulation Sociale de Jean-Daniel Reynaud. A travers ce cadre théorique, ils restituent les résultats d'une enquête de terrain menée auprès d'initiatives visant à développer un approvisionnement de la...

Food security is a global concern. Iranian farmers have the obligation to provide food but they don't have the right to food. International restrictions combined with incorrect national schematization put them in a situation that they can't afford to buy their own products just to endure to the...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion of economic informality and its application in the rural context of developing and transitional economies, applying Keith Hart's (1987) notion of informality as a 'remedial concept'. Some remedy is needed to make sense of the many 'palpable...

In this paper, we develop the burgeoning research agenda on alternative food networks in Europe. Through the concept of 'embeddedness', we argue for a much more nuanced and complex understanding of the relationships between conventional and alternative food chains - and, by extension, of their...

The work aims at formulating hypothesis on the actual alterity (Kirwan, 2004) ofthose realities that either define themselves or have been considered in the Calabriapolitical, social and scientific contexts as examples of "filiere corte", that is as foodpractices characterised by the afn...

El maíz es la planta principal del sistema agrícola tradicional mexicano llamado “milpa” y en el desarrollo de la agricultura moderna en México. Analizaremos la evolución del sistema de conocimientos del cultivo del maíz (“savoir-faire”: prácticas, conocimientos, representaciones)...

Over the course of several decades, many disadvantaged families who owned property under the tenancy-in-common form of ownership – property these families often referred to as heirs’ property – have had their property forcibly sold as a result of court-ordered partition sales. For several...

A robust public health system during a pandemic is a common good. We argue that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is a tragedy of the commons. During the early phases of the pandemic, Asia outperformed the US and Europe in managing it. The traditions and practices of rice farming in Asian...