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Networks and Chains in the Provision of Food

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Primarily due to economies of scale and globalization food chains have become extremely long, complex and opaque. In recent years there is trend in which consumers, retailers, craftsmen and producers are making a serious effort to change the status quo for number of different reasons, which are either business driven (price, efficiency, marketing, strategy), or less economy driven (sustainability, local economy, customer experience, circular economy). With the disconnection between production, distribution, preparation and consumption of food the market has alienated itself form all its participants.

This chapter, in slightly different form, has previously been published in the proceedings of the 51st ISOCARP conference, 19–23 October 2015, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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Roggema, R., Spangenberg, J. (2017). Networks and Chains in the Provision of Food. In: Roggema, R. (eds) Food Roofs of Rio de Janeiro. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56739-6_3

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