Ecological entrepreneurship: sustainable development in local communities through quality food production and local branding

The analysis of these two networks is used to examine in-depth the significance and construction of the social and spatial milieu for providing the individual and collective capabilities to establish viable problem-solving responses. This raises questions of: (i) how such networks are and can be sustained over time; (ii) the extent to which there are common evolutionary pathways which reproduce and embed problem-solving network building; (iii) how different spatial relations are engendered and (iv) whether such 'local' projects can advance to wider counter-movements in the context of the prevailing political economy.