British Food Journal: Volume 108 Issue 7

From subsistence to commercial fishing in Northern Canada: The experience of an Inuk entrepreneur

Nicole Gombay

The purpose of this paper is to show that, until the 1960s, subsistence hunting, fishing, and gathering were the mainstay of the economy for Inuit in the Eastern Canadian Arctic…

The economics of reindeer herding: Saami entrepreneurship between cyclical sustainability and the powers of state and oligopolies

Erik S. Reinert

This paper attempts to explain the drastic fall in income experienced by Saami reindeer herders in Northern Norway between 1976 and 2000, in spite of increasing government…

Sámi reindeer herd managers: why do they stay in a low‐profit business?

Jan Åge Riseth

This paper aims to reflect on the Sámi reindeer industry, which, in spite of a low economic return, contrasts with other primary industries in not displaying a population decline.

Farmers' markets: the small business counter‐revolution in food production and retailing

John Guthrie, Anna Guthrie, Rob Lawson, Alan Cameron

This paper seeks to explore the rationale for, and development of, farmers' markets in New Zealand. The paper is based on and extends previous industry reports.

Revisiting the New Zealand apple industry: the impacts of change

Matthew Dobbs, Daniel Rowling

The paper aims to show that in the past decade New Zealand apple growers have experienced a number of significant changes within their industry. It would seem that these changes…

A historical study of the traditional livestock merchants of Alsace

Leo Paul Dana

This paper is the result of empirical field research conducted in Alsace, a bi‐cultural area of France controlled by Germany from 1870 to WWI, by France between the World Wars…

Small-scale food producers

Claudio Vignali