Revisiting Transhumance from Stilfs, South Tyrol, Italy: The Everyday Diverse Economy of a Forgotten Alternative Food Network

This chapter discusses the pastoral practice of transhumance through the lens of the idea of an alternative food network.¹ The literature on alternative food networks in geography and agro-food studies is abundant. However, it has neglected to explore how transhumance is a lively agricultural practice that engenders and partakes in food networks that may be radical in their alternativeness. The chapter starts with introducing how alternative food networks emerged in the last thirty-five years or so as important foodways through which food is produced and consumed. It moves on to discuss transhumance as an agricultural practice and to focus, specifically,