My research is focused on two basic themes. The first is the development of food networks and in particular ‘alternative’, organic and high-quality food networks. The other is the highly differential development of rural spaces. The major processes of social change which sets the stage of these phenomena is the emergence of a saturated and highly differentiated food market as well as an ever increasing complex coupling between developments on a wide range of possible scales. In terms of theory, my work utilises elements from human geography, sociology, physical geography and agroecology/systems ecology.
