STRINGS – Selling The Rural IN (urban) Gourmet Stores – establishing new liaisons between town and country through the sale and consumption of rural products (Concluded Project)

Description:

University of Aveiro, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning – University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro

STRINGS aims at producing innovative knowledge to improve local food chains of production, commercialization and consumption unveiling new opportunities for rural development and to reduce rural-urban asymmetries in Portugal.

Based on multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches, STRINGS address the role that ‘gourmet’ specialty stores, located in urban contexts, may play on establishing new rural-urban relationships, rural attractiveness, socioeconomic restructuring and valorization, sustainability and territorial cohesion in Portugal, through the promotion and sale of traditional and locally produced foodstuffs.

See more information at: www.stringsproject.pt/strings-conference/

Partners:

University of Aveiro, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning – University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro