CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Király, Gábor |
|---|---|
| Title | An assessment of the ecological embeddedness of a farmers' market in Hungary case study on Szentendre farmers' market |
| Summary | Modern food production has been disembedded form its local context in conventional food production systems. As a result of this development, food production and consumption have become also disconnected. Agro-food studies have been interested in understanding this disconnection tendency and have researched the possibilities to re-establish the relationship between these two essential actors of food supply chains. Therefore, focus of agro-food scholars has shifted to alternative and local food systems in order to explore their reconfiguring potential. To this end, there has been a conceptual and operational framework developed aiming to link ecological conditions of food production and food exchange within an analytical and descriptive approach, called ecological embeddedness. This research project attempts to apply this novel way of presenting the relationship between food producers and consumers to the development and operation of a Hungarian local food system. Accordingly, this thesis explores the ecological embeddedness of Szentendre farmers’ market within the framework of an ethnographic case study using qualitative data collection methods. The author concludes that even though ecological embeddedness has limited explanatory relevance in this individual case, the market shows great potential to be the place of the reconfiguration of the relationship between food producers and consumers. |
| Supervisor | Aistara, Guntra |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/kiraly_gabor.pdf |
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