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Papers that make up this Symposium

  • Sabrina Arcuri: Food poverty, food waste and the consensus frame on charitable food redistribution in Italy.

  • Sibylle Bui, Ionara Costa, Olivier De Schutter, Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Marek Hudon, Marlène Feyereisen: Systemic ethics and inclusive governance: two key prerequisites for sustainability transitions of agri-food systems.

  • Francesca Galli, Alessio Cavicchi, Gianluca Brunori: Food waste reduction and food poverty alleviation: a system dynamics conceptual model.

  • Damian Maye, James Kirwan and Gianluca Brunori: Ethics and responsibilisation in agri-food governance: the single-use plastics debate and strategies to introduce reusable coffee cups in UK retail chains.

  • Martina Schäfer: Establishing ethical organic poultry production: a question of successful cooperation management?.

  • Rosalind Sharpe, David Barling: ‘The right thing to do’: Ethical motives in the interpretation of social sustainability in the UK’s conventional food supply.

  • Ville Tikka: Charitable food aid in Finland: From a social issue to an environmental solution.

  • Talis Tisenkopfs, Emils Kilis, Mikelis Grivins and Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica: Whose ethics and for whom? Dealing with ethical disputes in agri-food governance.

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Acknowledgements

A number of different people have helped make this Symposium possible. First, thanks to all the paper presenters who took part at the ESRS sessions in 2017 from which this Symposium is derived. Second, we are very grateful to all the authors for their contributions and for responding promptly and constructively to our editorial requests and suggestions. Last but not least, thanks to the Editor of Agriculture and Human Values, Harvey James, for his input and clear guidance throughout the editorial process.

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  1. Department of Agriculture Food and Environment, University of Pisa, via del Borghetto 80, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Gianluca Brunori & Francesca Galli

  2. Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, GL50 4AZ, UK

    Damian Maye

  3. Centre for Agriculture, Food and Environmental Management, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts, AL10 9AB, UK

    David Barling

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Brunori, G., Maye, D., Galli, F. et al. Symposium introduction—ethics and sustainable agri-food governance: appraisal and new directions. Agric Hum Values 36, 257–261 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09929-y

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