Agni Kalfagianni is Associate Professor of Transnational Sustainability Governance, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.Sophia Skordili is Professor of Industrial Geography, Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.

• 1. Introduction Part I Innovative Local Agrifood Governance 2. The Rise of Municipal Food Movements 3. Grassroots responsible innovation initiatives in SFSC 4. Food localization and agency: The Cases of Regionalwert AG and Luzernenhof in Freiburg, Germany Part II Local Agrifood Systems 5. The long and the short of it: Motivations and realities for food hub actors in Ontario, Canada 6. "New" micro agrofood initiatives in crisis-hit Greece and beyond: a promising alternative or business as usual? 7. Synergies between Localized Agri-food Systems and Short Supply Chains for Geographical Indications in Italy 8. Re-embedding Greek Feta in localities: Cooperation of small dairies as a territorial development strategy Part III Alternative Agrifood Market Channels 9. The fairness of alternative food retailers in the Netherlands 10. Social justice on the market place. The renewal of peri-urban open-air food markets around Montpellier, France 11. Protection of a 'place': Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Germany 12. Conclusions

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