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Rebuilding and intensifying the rural-urban connections is a vital pathway to reverse the rural decline tendency as the permanent exodus of young people and induced rural-urban disconnections seriously challenge the sustainable rural development across the world. Combining the umbrella concept of Alternative Food Network (AFN) centering on directly connecting farmers and local consumers and ‘social capital’ closely linked to ‘trust’, ‘shared value’ and ‘social network’, this study develops a transdisciplinary framework to understand the process of an AFN-type agricultural practice case in eastern China, and examines its impact on re-linking local rural community to surrounding cities and fostering rural endogenous development capacity. Tracing the practice of an AFN-type ecological agri-food supply chain suggests that it not only contributes to meeting city affluent groups' increasingly demand of ecological agri-food, but also helps bridge the decline rural and booming urban areas, facilitate people-to-people exchange and knowledge and capital flow between two sides, and develop the collective actions involving both rural and urban individuals for further local agricultural innovat

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Author

Cheng Chen; Jin Yang; Jinlong Gao; Wen Chen

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences