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

Michela Giovannini () and Francesca Forno ()
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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)

Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 2023, vol. 12, issue 1, 75-84

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Transdisciplinary action research; Civic food networks; Alternative food networks; Food policy; Living labs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L30 Q01 Q18 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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