Abstract
The vast majority of research on alternative food networks (AFNs), such as farmer’s markets (FMs) and farm shares, examines the social and economic aspects of these networks with relatively little consideration of the ecology of AFNs despite frequent claims of environmental sustainability and beneficence. This is especially true at scales beyond that of the farm or field and in modes of production that fall outside the bounds of the organic/conventional paradigm. This article seeks to address these lacunae and construct a framework for exploring the ecology of AFN landscapes through the review and synthesis of scholarship in landscape ecology and related fields. This framework is then applied to a case study of the Greenmarket FMs in New York City, USA, to highlight the challenges of assessing the ecology of AFNs and the opportunities this research offers for improving the sustainability of AFNs.
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