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Chapter 1 -Digital food provisioning in a time of multiple crises: an introduction -- Chapter2 - Online food provisioning services and where to find them: Pipelines, platforms and the rise of dark stores -- Chapter 3 - Sustainable and Purchasing Behavior of Online Food Shoppers: Survey Results from Italy, Ireland, and Germany -- Chapter 4 -Driving the digital and sustainable transition through law: assessing the food consumer's legal toolkit -- Chapter 5 -Infrastructure, impulsivity, and waste. Exploring the (un)sustainable routines of mainstream food shoppers -- Chapter 6 –Making the Consumption of Food Circular: The Karma App and the Re-qualifications of Surplus Food -- Chapter7 -From grassroots to platforms: how digitalization reconfigures learning and engagement with food. Chapter 8-Food, Health and Sustainability: Choice, Care, Alternatives.

This edited collection brings together theoretical and empirical reflections on the role played by new technology and digital platforms in the provision of food. The way food is produced, distributed, consumed and disposed has significant consequences for the environment, affecting soil fertility, water and air quality, the state of the climate and the loss of biodiversity. Such negative effects are strictly related to the agro-industrial system of production and consumption, based on logic of low prices, high availability and high waste. This collection brings together a carefully curated range of insights from a team of twenty researchers coming from different fields working in different European universities engaged in the same project for more than three years. As a result, this book will appeal to people working on food studies and on sustainable food production and consumption, offering both conceptual-theoretical insights into contemporary food issues alongside empirical illustrations. Arne Dulsrud is Research Professor at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), OsloMet,Norway. He has published widely on consumer policy issues, economic sociology and food policy both in books and journals. Francesca Forno is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy. She has published on civic participation and social movements

The growth of digital ecosystems such as Google, Apple and Uber has led to radical changes in economic activity, work and consumption. It has also challenged established economic, social and organization theory, which has clear limitations in understanding these phenomena. The discourses on these topics are conducted in various arenas, which are not linked, and conceptualise digital ecosystems differently. What kind of theoretical object is this? The purpose of this study is to present an institutional and comparative analysis of the research on platforms and digital ecosystems. We identify four research streams; political, economic, technological and individual. We analyse each stream regarding the key insights, and identify the most important knowledge sources. Then we assess the relevance of classical and modern sociology for understanding digital ecosystems. ; publishedVersion

The growth of digital ecosystems such as Google, Apple and Uber has led to radical changes in economic activity, work and consumption. It has also challenged established economic, social and organization theory, which has clear limitations in understanding these phenomena. The discourses on these topics are conducted in various arenas, which are not linked, and conceptualise digital ecosystems differently. What kind of theoretical object is this? The purpose of this study is to present an institutional and comparative analysis of the research on platforms and digital ecosystems. We identify four research streams; political, economic, technological and individual. We analyse each stream regarding the key insights, and identify the most important knowledge sources. Then we assess the relevance of classical and modern sociology for understanding digital ecosystems.

The growth of digital ecosystems such as Google, Apple and Uber has led to radical changes in economic activity, work and consumption. It has also challenged established economic, social and organization theory, which has clear limitations in understanding these phenomena. The discourses on these topics are conducted in various arenas, which are not linked, and conceptualise digital ecosystems differently. What kind of theoretical object is this? The purpose of this study is to present an institutional and comparative analysis of the research on platforms and digital ecosystems. We identify four research streams; political, economic, technological and individual. We analyse each stream regarding the key insights, and identify the most important knowledge sources. Then we assess the relevance of classical and modern sociology for understanding digital ecosystems.

A conventional assumption within sociology of markets is that social ties are crucial in economic life, but that too strong relationships between sellers and buyers can create role conflicts and restrict business. Using qualitative interviews with Norwegian exporters and Danish importers, this article examines transactions in the international fish trade. We find that the assumed episodic and highly competitive commodity trade is rooted in dyadic networks and personal trust; inspired by the work of Goffman, we analyse transaction patterns as 'interaction order'. The transaction pattern is dependent on a particular organization of social interaction, interaction in which business dealings are divided into delimited spheres of the 'formal', 'personal' and 'private'. This division reflects a differentiation of the social roles, one in which traders avoid the role conflicts inherent in close relationships. We conclude by stating that economic sociology should probably be less preoccupied with formal network configurations and instead be focused more on how actors actually use social ties in the marketplace to conduct business, and on how these ties are linked to price mechanisms.

This report is the first deliverable from the project Food for Security: Evidence from Cauca, Colombia funded by NORGLOBAL 2 under Research Council of Norway. The objective of this report is twofold. First, we will provide an updated state of the art on the knowledge of food security and conflict in Cauca. We review existing and available literature describing the food security situation, key actors, divisions and alliances of conflict, and issues that are being raised on the public and political agenda in Colombia. This will provide a crucial knowledge base and input to later activities in this project, including data collection, interpretations, and dissemination. Second, we will question how the Covid19 pandemic affects food security and conflict, and how these impacts raise research questions that can be integrated and captured into our study. The pandemic hit Colombia with a powerful stroke during the spring of 2020, leaving Colombia in the deepest economic slump in many decades. Even though the Covid-19 pandemic occurred after our project was initiated, its consequences need to be addressed. ; Denne rapporten er den første leveransen fra prosjektet Food for Security: Evidence from Cauca, Colombia finansiert av NORGLOBAL 2 under Norges forskningsråd. Målet med denne rapporten er todelt. Først vil vi gi en oppdatert kunnskapsoversikt om matsikkerhet og konflikt i Cauca. Vi gjennomgår eksisterende og tilgjengelig litteratur som beskriver matvaresikkerhetssituasjonen, sentrale aktører, splittelser og konfliktallianser, og spørsmål som tas opp på den offentlige og politiske dagsorden i Colombia. Dette vil gi en viktig kunnskapsbase for senere aktiviteter i dette prosjektet, inkludert datainnsamling, tolkninger og formidling. For det andre vil vi stille spørsmål om hvordan Covid19- pandemien påvirker matsikkerhet og konflikt, og hvordan dette påvirker forskningsspørsmål som kan integreres og fanges inn i studien vår. Pandemien traff Colombia med et kraftig slag våren 2020, og etterlot Colombia i den dypeste økonomiske nedgangen på mange tiår.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major stress test for the agri-food system. While most research has analysed the impact of the pandemic on mainstream food systems, this article examines how alternative and local food systems (ALFS) in 13 countries responded in the first months of the crisis. Using primary and secondary data and combining the Multi-Level Perspective with social innovation approaches, we highlight the innovations and adaptations that emerged in ALFS, and how these changes have created or supported the sustainability transition in production and consumption systems. In particular, we show how the combination of social and technological innovation, greater citizen involvement, and the increased interest of policy-makers and retailers have enabled ALFS to extend their scope and engage new actors in more sustainable practices. Finally, we make recommendations concerning how to support ALFS' upscaling to embrace the opportunities arising from the crisis and strengthen the sustainability transition. ; Hungary's input was funded by NKFIH contract numbers K-129097 and FK135460, and by topic research number 2000412, contributed by the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of Economics (Hungary). Research in France has been supported by the Fondation de France, the Fondation Carasso and self-funding; in Australia by the Australian Research Council (DE190101126), in Japan by the FEAST Project (No.14200116), Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN); in Spain by the ROBUST project, as part of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union, under Grant Agreement No. 727988. The information and views set out in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union. ; publishedVersion