Producer-oriented and consumer-oriented alternative food networks and rural revitalization in China: Distinct trajectories and variegated impacts

• Main Authors: WU, Meiling, ZHANG, Qian Forrest
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2025
• Subjects: alternative food networks; rural revitalization; organic farming; sustainable agriculture; farming communities; food supply chain; Agribusiness; Asian Studies; Rural Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4145; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5404/viewcontent/2025_HI_AFN_pvoa_nc_nd.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Alternative food networks (AFNs) have been increasingly perceived as an engine for rural revitalization, yet AFNs can differ in their founding motivations, operational methods, and organizational forms, which thus produce varying economic, social, and environmental outcomes. Despite this, the comple...