Structure and Change in Alternative Agriculture: The Roles of Policy and Markets in Alternative Food Initiatives

Friday, 11 July 2025: 09:00-10:45
Location: ASJE025 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC40 Sociology of Agriculture and Food (host committee)

Language: English and French

Alternative forms of agricultural production often confront conventional social, political, and economic arrangements. New marketing forms and policy interventions may open opportunities for change, enable resistance to change, or potentially both. This session considers opportunities and challenges for alternative food in relation to policy and markets, considering, for example, the enactment of new policies, destabilization of markets created through Covid 19, or the scaling alternative food initiatives from the grassroots.
Session Organizer:
Katharine LEGUN, Netherlands
Chair:
Kiah SMITH, University of Queensland, Australia
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Christine ALTENBUCHNER, ----, Austria; Judith FISCHER, Boku University, Austria
Rural Citizenship and Agroecological Mobilisation in Argentina: Grassroots Struggles for Land and Sustainability
Cristina CABRERA FEBLES, Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC), Spain; María Florencia MARCOS, Centro de Estudios Urbanos y Regionales (CEUR-CONICET), Argentina
A Meta-Analysis of Rural Collective Action and Grassroots Mobilisation in Turkey in the 21st Century
Atakan BÜKE, Leipzig University, Turkey; José Duarte Medeiros RIBEIRO, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; Ayse GUNDUZ HOSGOR, Turkey
De-/Re-Agrarianisation: Indian Perspective
Palash GUGHANE, FLAME University, Pune, India
Did the Marshall Plan Cover the Expectation: Turkey’s Entanglement in Agricultural Development in the 1950s
Emrah YILDIZ, Turkey
Changing Values Served By the Wholesale Market System: A Case Study of Japan's 2018 Wholesale Market Law Amendment
Toru TAKEOKA, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Scaling up Farmers Markets in Thailand: Obstacles and Opportunities
Sayamol CHAROENRATANA, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; Cholnapa ANUKUL, Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute, Thailand
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