{"title":"Between surplus and support: a comparison between Greater Manchester (UK) and Kyoto Prefecture (Japan) charitable food provision fields.","authors":"Filippo Oncini, Hein Mallee","doi":"10.1007/s41130-025-00241-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41130-025-00241-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Over the past decades, charitable food provision (CFP) has become a vital safety net in addressing poverty across the Global North. Organizations distributing food parcels or meals, often sourced from surplus, now play a central role in urban poverty relief. Framed as a \"win-win\" solution that aligns social and environmental sustainability, CFP is widely perceived as capable of addressing hunger while reducing food waste. This paper offers an innovative, field-level comparison of CFP systems in Greater Manchester (UK) and Kyoto Prefecture (Japan) using Strategic Action Field (SAF) theory-a framework not yet widely applied in this context. We analyze the emergence of these fields, their operational dynamics, interactions with state and corporate actors, and the impact of COVID-19. Drawing on extensive qualitative data, including semi-structured interviews and field observations, we identify contrasting organizational models: the UK's formalized, network-driven approach versus Japan's decentralized, community-oriented one. Despite these differences, both fields depend on volunteers, corporate partnerships, and expanded activity during the pandemic. By showing how different institutional logics shape the articulation of social and environmental sustainability, the paper not only critiques the \"win-win\" narrative but also advances a comparative framework for future research into CFP fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":74691,"journal":{"name":"Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies","volume":"106 4","pages":"539-560"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12948772/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147328300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica Bosseaux, Kelvin Balcombe, Philippe Aurier
{"title":"Impact of European egg marking system in France: empirical time series analysis between 2017 and 2022","authors":"Jessica Bosseaux, Kelvin Balcombe, Philippe Aurier","doi":"10.1007/s41130-024-00212-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00212-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74691,"journal":{"name":"Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies","volume":"5 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141803479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Viola Lamani, Sophie Drogué, Alexandre Ducrot, Philippe Terrieux, Z. Colombet, Caroline Méjean
{"title":"Nutritional quality of food imports in Caribbean small islands. Evidence from the French West Indies","authors":"Viola Lamani, Sophie Drogué, Alexandre Ducrot, Philippe Terrieux, Z. Colombet, Caroline Méjean","doi":"10.1007/s41130-024-00214-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00214-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74691,"journal":{"name":"Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies","volume":" 97","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141827466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decarbonizing research laboratories? The tensions associated with the commensurability of carbon and how it opens up the boundaries of responsibility attribution","authors":"Antoine Hardy","doi":"10.1007/s41130-024-00211-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00211-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74691,"journal":{"name":"Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies","volume":" 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141668563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A meso-political economy of how climate issues impact regulation: the case of the wood industry in France","authors":"Arnaud Sergent, Andy Smith","doi":"10.1007/s41130-024-00209-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00209-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74691,"journal":{"name":"Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies","volume":"26 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140696805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Granjou, Vincent Banos, Sylvain Le Berre, Arnaud Sergent
{"title":"Greening, climatizing, and decarbonizing: an inquiry into the transformation of productive sectors and activities","authors":"C. Granjou, Vincent Banos, Sylvain Le Berre, Arnaud Sergent","doi":"10.1007/s41130-024-00210-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00210-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74691,"journal":{"name":"Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies","volume":"136 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140731233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Régis Briday, Sébastien Chailleux, Xavier Arnauld de Sartre
{"title":"The complex challenges and opportunities of the industrial and energy sectors (IESs) in the time of climate politics: carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) in France as a case study","authors":"Régis Briday, Sébastien Chailleux, Xavier Arnauld de Sartre","doi":"10.1007/s41130-024-00208-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00208-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74691,"journal":{"name":"Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies","volume":"102 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140754782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heterogeneity and agency in the contemporary food regime in Switzerland: among the food from nowhere, somewhere, and here sub-regimes","authors":"Rike Stotten","doi":"10.1007/s41130-024-00207-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00207-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74691,"journal":{"name":"Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies","volume":"326 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140228473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The logic of carbon substitution: from fossilised life to “cell factories”","authors":"Véra Ehrenstein, Alice Rudge","doi":"10.1007/s41130-024-00206-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00206-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74691,"journal":{"name":"Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140245224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marie Hrabanski, Sidonie Verdeil, Antoine Ducastel
{"title":"Agrivoltaics in France: the multi-level and uncertain regulation of an energy decarbonisation policy","authors":"Marie Hrabanski, Sidonie Verdeil, Antoine Ducastel","doi":"10.1007/s41130-024-00204-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00204-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74691,"journal":{"name":"Review of agricultural, food and environmental studies","volume":"802 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140446375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}