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Doing Transdisciplinary Action Research: A Critical Assessment of an Italian Lab-Like Sustainable Food Initiative

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  • Michela Giovannini

    (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (Italy))

  • Francesca Forno

    (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (Italy))

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The food system nowadays has proven to be unsustainable from the ecological and social points of view and the need of supporting food security and sustainability through local, short-supply chain food systems is manifest. Against this background, several municipalities all over the world have started to establish multi-stakeholder collaborative roundtables to sustain participatory mechanisms directed to design new sustainable urban food strategies. Their main objective is to make Civic Food Networks (such as farmersÕ markets, solidarity purchasing groups, community-supported agriculture, local physical and online food hubs, box schemes) accessible to larger sectors of the population. In this contribution, we discuss preliminary research results on Nutrire Trento (ÒFeeding TrentoÓ), a local sustainable food initiative, similar to a food council, through a living lab approach inscribed in a Transdisciplinary Action Research methodology, in order to analyse its potentialities as well as its critical aspects.

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  • Michela Giovannini & Francesca Forno, 2023. "Doing Transdisciplinary Action Research: A Critical Assessment of an Italian Lab-Like Sustainable Food Initiative," Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises, vol. 12(1), pages 75-84.
    • Handle: RePEc:trn:csnjrn:v:12:i:1:p:75-84
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    Keywords

    Transdisciplinary action research; Civic food networks; Alternative food networks; Food policy; Living labs;
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    JEL classification:

    • L30 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - General
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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