Community entrepreneurship in sustainable food places

During the last few years, the agro-food sector has undergone a phase of great transformation deriving on arising territorial emphasis on the topic and a greater sensitivity regarding the issues of sustainability on supply chains. In this contribution, we focus on how these transformations increasingly boost new community- based territorial functions in food distribution and consumption. In answering this question, we attempt to delineate a reflection on tools and conditions for sustainable food place-making through the analysis of two examples: the e-commerce platform ‘L’Alveare che dice si’ and the covered market of ‘Mercato di Lorenteggio’, recognized as good practices in a perspective of convergence between community entrepreneurship and sustainable food place making.