Alternative Food Networks in Times of Crisis: a Dialectial co-Contstruction Process

This article places itself within a debate that has developed over
the past few years around alternative food systems. By combining insights
from Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) literature, among the contemporary
economics and social crisis, this paper would show how AFNs are evolving in
the Global World. It will be displayed how - and in which way - the economic
crisis has been shaping AFNs initiatives, which seem to be more developed
after 2008, in both Global North and Global South. To reach these goals, data
collected in two different contexts – Italy and Brazil - will be compared as
follows: firstly, it will be presented the diachronic evolution of AFNs initiatives
for each case-study, then, following a qualitative approach, it will be analysed
the crisis impact.