methodology
The research project uses a series of interviews to explore how different groups are involved with an alternative food network.
These groups range from consumer-activist groups engaging with eating locally, through small-scale producers on local farms, to community groups working to improve access to local food.
Interviews held with representatives of these groups - perhaps stakeholders in an emergent local food system - to explore the research questions. Although each interview will be tailored to the participant group, all will examine the same core of questions about the role localism plays in the group’s activities, and how they see the local contributing to the emergence of an alternative food network.
The interviews will not be structured as a series of questions, but rather as an opportunity for conversation between the researcher and the participant.
Some further thoughts about methodology are detailed here.
