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Tag Archives: local organic food

International Workshop on Grassroots Innovations for Sustainability

May 28, 2012by Adrian Smith

“Community food projects are not about food, and community energy projects are not about energy” was one of the conclusions from an international workshop of experts on ‘grassroots innovations’. These […]

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CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), News

Journal paper: Growing sustainable consumption communities: the case of local organic food networks

April 13, 2012by Adrian Smith

Purpose – Sustainable consumption is increasingly on the policy menu, and local organic food has been widely advocated as a practical tool to make changes to conventional production and consumption […]

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Academic papers, Food, Publications

Journal paper: Avoiding Asda? Exploring Consumer Motivations In Local Organic Food Networks

April 13, 2012by Adrian Smith

Supermarkets such as Asda (owned by Wal-Mart) have responded to the growth in direct marketing and alternative agri-food networks by promoting local produce ranges, and increasingly sourcing organic produce from […]

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Academic papers, Food, Publications

Journal paper: Ecological Citizenship and Sustainable Consumption: Examining local food networks

April 13, 2012by Adrian Smith

Sustainable consumption is gaining in currency as a new environmental policy objective. This paper presents new research findings from a mixed-method empirical study of a local organic food network to […]

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Academic papers, Food, Publications

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Grassroots Innovations

Grassroots innovations are community-led solutions for sustainability. Here we present news and updates from a series of research projects on grassroots innovations, based at the University of East Anglia and University of Sussex. Our research aims to better understand how these innovations develop and grow, and how they can be harnessed to meet sustainability policy objectives.

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