Future Directions for Food Resistance Movements

Abstract

Chapter 6 synthesises areas for future research across the case studies to identify the next steps for achieving just and sustainable food system change. Key research questions include: How can benefits from formalising alternative food networks be enjoyed without becoming co-opted? Do (or should) alternative food networks have a natural lifespan? How can formal processes be sufficiently adapted to learn from both success and failure? What approaches can best replicate initiatives across and between cities whilst retaining the integrity of their core principles and identity? This chapter closes by emphasising the need to support food resistance movements’ efforts in uncertain times, where anthropology—as one of many disciplines in inter and transdisciplinary approaches—can support greater understanding of the complex factors towards facilitating such change.