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For some years now, numerous initiatives have been launched to promote new ways of consuming that are more socially and environmentally responsible. They are called alternative food systems, concrete initiatives that bring together producers and consumers in search of alternatives to the current dominant system.
Although there has been a strong interest in the last few years, and even more so given the current health situation, no one knows whether this interest will be sustainable.
This is why in this paper we have tried to identify the motivations and the obstacles of the different actors for the short food circuits in order to find out some solutions for a sustainable development of these commercialization modes.

Short food supply chains --- short food circuit --- local food network --- producers --- agriculture --- food industry --- Belgium --- Wallonia --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Domaines particuliers de l'économie (santé, travail, transport...)

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Eat Local, Taste Global: How Ethnocultural Food Reaches Our Tables shows how the demand for ethnocultural vegetables on the part of Toronto's South Asian, Chinese, and Afro-Caribbean Canadians is at odds with the corporate food regime. How does that regime affect the local food movement and ethnic groups' access to their preferred foods? This book addresses that question and suggests that the protection of ethnic and national food security and sovereignty strengthens immigrant integration while producing healthy crossover effects for other Canadians. The authors show how culture, food, and migration are intertwined and how access to ethnocultural vegetables is affected by ethnicity, social class, shopping venues, and food prices. Most ethnic vegetables are imported by corporations and ethnic intermediaries and pass through Toronto's Food Terminal; however, local farmers are now producing some of these vegetables, and alternative forms of agriculture and markets play a significant role in bringing ethnocultural vegetables to our tables. Social justice requires that people have both food security and food sovereignty. Eat Local, Taste Global offers solutions to identified contradictions that include making farmers' markets more inclusive, improving conditions for migrant farm workers, and making alternative forms of agriculture more feasible. This book will be of interest to rural sociologists and political scientists as well as policy-makers, food activists, farmers, and food security organizations.

Ethnic food industry --- Food industry and trade --- Afro-Caribbean cuisines. --- Chinese cuisines. --- Ethno-cultural vegetables. --- Multiculturalism. --- community. --- exports. --- framers market. --- globalization. --- greater Toronto area, food consumption. --- immigration. --- imports. --- local food movement. --- retail market structure. --- south-Asian cuisines. --- trans nationalism. --- value chain.

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Nowadays, the model on which mass retailing is based is increasingly being called into question. As part of a highly standardised and industrialised system, mass retailing is part of a logic that is not very concerned about the environment that surrounds it. In addition to the scandals that have erupted in recent years concerning mad cow disease or horse-meat lasagne, the latter uses methods that have negative consequences for both our ecosystem and our health. 
Launched in a relentless race to maximise profit, mass distribution does not hesitate to put pressure on prices in order to offer ever more attractive conditions to the customer. Not surprisingly, this has repercussions on the producer, whose income is so low that he often finds himself in precarious situations. 
Against the tide of this trend, some actors are showing their desire to break with such a system and are developing other forms of distribution. Sometimes based on older foundations, sometimes on the emergence of new practices, these initiatives are part of what many authors call "alternative food systems". Although each of these project leaders proposes an alternative to large-scale distribution, they do not all choose the same path to move away from it. For instance, we can see the emergence of shops specialising in the sale of organic products, models tending to bring producers and consumers closer together, and grocery stores advocating the reduction of packaging.
First, this paper introduces the concept of "alternative food retailer" and the context in which it is emerging. Then, it identifies the factors that influence such distributors to move towards organic, local and/or zero-waste initiatives.
Secondly, by conducting a survey in the district of Verviers (Belgium), this work attempts to gain a better understanding of the choices made by each of the targeted distributors. Why do they move towards a particular speciality? Do they choose to harmonise their practices? How do they arbitrate between their values? These will be the major themes addressed. De nos jours, le modèle sur lequel repose la grande distribution est de plus en plus remis en cause. Partie prenante d’un système fortement standardisé et industrialisé, la grande distribution s’inscrit dans des logiques peu soucieuses de l’environnement qui l’entoure. Outre les scandales qui ont éclaté ces dernières années concernant la maladie de la vache folle ou les lasagnes à la viande de cheval, cette dernière emploie des méthodes qui engendrent des conséquences négatives tant sur notre écosystème que sur notre santé. 
Lancée dans une course acharnée à la conquête de la maximisation du profit, la grande distribution n’hésite pas à faire pression sur les prix afin de proposer des conditions toujours plus attractives pour le client. Cela se répercute sans surprise sur le producteur dont les revenus sont tellement amoindris qu’il se retrouve bien souvent dans des situations précaires. 
A contre-courant de cette mouvance, certains acteurs manifestent leur envie de rompre avec un tel système et développent d’autres formes de distribution. Reposant tantôt sur des fondements plus anciens, tantôt sur l’émergence de nouvelles pratiques, ces initiatives s’inscrivent au sein de ce que nombre d’auteurs qualifient de « systèmes alimentaires alternatifs ». Si chacun de ces porteurs de projet proposent une alternative à la grande distribution, tous ne choisissent pas le même chemin pour s’en éloigner. Ainsi, on constate notamment l’émergence de commerces spécialisés dans la vente de produits bio, des modèles tendant à rapprocher producteur et consommateur ou encore des épiceries prônant la réduction des emballages.
Dans un premier temps, ce mémoire introduit le concept de « distributeur agroalimentaire alternatif » et le contexte dans lequel il émerge. Ensuite, il recense les facteurs qui influencent de tels distributeurs à se diriger dans des initiatives bio, locales et/ou zéro déchet.
Dans un second temps, en menant une enquête dans l’arrondissement de Verviers (Belgique), ce travail tente de mieux percevoir les choix entrepris par chacun des distributeurs visés. Pourquoi se dirigent-il vers une spécialité en particulier ? Font-ils le choix d’harmoniser leurs pratiques ? Comment procèdent-ils à des arbitrages entre leurs valeurs ? Tels seront les thèmes majeurs abordés.

Alternative food retailer --- Arbitration --- Belgium --- Choice made --- Constraints --- Harmonisation --- Local food --- Motivations --- Organic food --- Zero waste initiatives --- Distributeurs agroalimentaires alternatifs --- Arbitrages --- Belgique --- Choix effectués --- Harmonisation --- Denrées locales --- Motivations --- Denrées biologiques --- Initiatives zéro déchet --- Freins --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Production, distribution & gestion de la chaîne logistique --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Economie sociale --- Sciences du vivant > Agriculture & agronomie

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"Food nourishes the body, but our relationship with food extends far beyond our need for survival. We use food choices not only to express our personal tastes but also, and perhaps more importantly, to declare our affiliation with certain groups to the exclusion of others. Thanks to a newly global system of food production, however, coupled with rising concerns about the nutritional value of the foods we consume and the impact of our increasingly sedentary lifestyles, the modern foodscape has become remarkably difficult to navigate. A single food item may, for example, be labelled with health-related claims made by the manufacturer that do not dovetail with the information provided in the "Nutrition Facts" label. In the media sphere, the enormous amount of food-related advice provided by government agencies, assorted advocacy groups, diet books, and so on compete with efforts on the part of the food industry to sell their product and to respond to a consumer-driven desire for convenience. As a result, the topic of food has grown fraught, engendering sometimes acrimonious debates about what we should eat, and why. This volume is the latest to emerge from a series of workshops about the role of media in Canadian popular culture. By examining topics such as the values embedded in food advertising, the meaning of "organic" and "natural," the locavore movement, food tourism, dinner parties, food bank donations, the moral panic surrounding obesity, food crises, and fears about food safety, the contributors to this volume paint a rich, if at times disturbing, portrait of how food is represented, regulated, and consumed in Canada. We also hear from "food insiders"--bestselling cookbook author and food editor Elizabeth Baird, veteran restaurant reviewer and food writer John Gilchrist, executive chef and culinary tourism provider Eric Pateman--who provide valuable insights about the way that Canadians cook, eat, and experience food. The result is a thought-provoking look at food as a system of communication through which Canadians articulate cultural identity, personal values, and social class."--

Food habits --- Food --- Food consumption --- Food law and legislation --- Communication and culture --- Marketing. --- Culture and communication --- Culture --- Consumption of food --- Cost and standard of living --- Food supply --- Foods --- Dinners and dining --- Home economics --- Table --- Cooking --- Diet --- Dietaries --- Gastronomy --- Nutrition --- Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Oral habits --- Primitive societies --- nutrition --- food security --- dinner parties --- food labeling --- local food movement --- organic --- obesity --- dieting

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Records of parasitism in crocodilians date back to the early 1800's, distributed among various types of published and unpublished materials. Analyzing parasite-host specificity, geographic distribution, and taxonomy can provide otherwise cryptic details about crocodilian ecology and evolution, as well as their local food web dynamics. This information is critical for improved conservation tactics for both crocodilians and their habitat. As climate change, anthropogenic conflict, and environmental pollution endanger crocodilian ecosystems, there is a need for organized information on crocodile, alligator, caiman, and gharial infectious diseases. This volume meets this need by delivering the first checklist of crocodilians and their parasites for researchers and scholars in biology, herpetology, and ecology in order to further the knowledge and study of crocodilian-parasite dynamics and improve our understanding of human impacts on ecosystems.

Crocodilians. --- Host-parasite relationships. --- Host-organism relationships --- Host-pathogen relationships --- Parasite-host relationships --- Pathogen-host relationships --- Relationships, Host-parasite --- Parasitism --- Crocodilia --- Crocodylia --- Loricata (Reptiles) --- Reptiles --- Crocodilians.. --- alligators. --- anthropogenic conflict. --- biology. --- caimans. --- climate change. --- conservation. --- crocodiles. --- crocodilia. --- crocodilian evolution. --- crocodilians. --- crocodylia. --- ecology. --- ecosystems. --- environment. --- environmental pollution. --- evolutionary ecology. --- false gharial. --- gharial. --- herpetology. --- host. --- human impact. --- infectious diseases. --- local food web dynamics. --- natural habitat. --- parasite host relationship. --- parasite host specificity. --- parasite. --- parasitism. --- predators. --- scientists. --- semiaquatic reptiles. --- symbiotic relationship. --- taxonomy. --- theoretical.