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Collaborative institutional work to generate alternative food systems

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  • Sophie Michel

    (UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg)

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Recently, there has been a proliferation of alternatives to the global food system. Yet, there is still an ongoing debate on their potential to transform the food system and challenge its globalization. This research introduces institutional analysis to the food system literature in order to comprehend actors' efforts to scale up alternatives and transform the food system at the local level. Such efforts are explored from an inductive research of the organization called M-Local Food Project, which gathers a range of diverse actors to work on expanding alternative food and transforming the food system in eastern France. Based on this organization's analysis and its collaborative institutional work, this research highlights how to organize collective agency from the collaboration of multiple actors to co-build an alternative food system and extends the debate on alternative food potential to challenge the dominant global food system. It also provides an emerging model of collaborative institutional work that enriches the institutional analysis on the coalition for institutional changes and offers practical advice on tensions for alternative organizations that cannot be overcome.

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  • Sophie Michel, 2020. "Collaborative institutional work to generate alternative food systems," Post-Print hal-03693596, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03693596
    DOI: 10.1177/1350508419883385
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