Producers’ transition to alternative food practices in rural China: Social mobilization and cultural reconstruction in the formation of alternative economies

• Main Author: ZHANG, Qian Forrest
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Alternative food networks (AFN); Alternative economies; Productivism; Cooperatives; Moral economy; Agroecology; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Asian Studies; Rural Sociology; Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3794; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5052/viewcontent/s10460_023_10509_4.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The shift from the conventional agri-food system to alternative practices is a challenging transition for agricultural producers, yet surprisingly under-studied. Little research has examined the social and cultural processes in rural communities that mobilize producers and construct and sustain prod...