ABSTRACT
The modern food system has brought many benefits for consumers but has also created significant sustainability problems, ranging from environmental degradation and health problems from over- and under-consumption to food safety scares and imbalances of power and justice in the supply chain (Pretty et al. 2001; Wekerle 2004; Spaargaren et al. 2012a; Fuchs et al. 2016). These problems can be considered as ‘persistent’ or ‘wicked’ problems which are embedded in societal structures, are valued differently, and involve a multitude of actors (Grin et al. 2010; Schuitmaker 2012). Every attempt to solve these problems will transform them and carries different side effects. As such, scholars argue that to address these problems, transitions are needed: ‘radical transformation[s] towards a sustainable society’ (Grin et al. 2010, 1).
