Civic food networks have emerged as a civil society–driven response to the social, financial, and environmental shortcomings of the economic food system. They are differentiated from other forms of alternative food networks in that they emphasize cooperation over independence, concentrate on participatory democratic governance over hierarchy, and serve each social and economic features for participants. Yet there could be little understanding of the processes of cooperation, particularly amongst farmers, in civic food networks. In this five-year motion research project we documented the development of a farmer-driven civic food network in southern Manitoba on the Canadian Prairies.
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