摘要：This article examines how local food systems in the form of farmers' markets can enhanceadaptive capacity and build social-ecological resilience. It does this by exploring the learning potentialamong farmers and customers. Learning can enable actors to adapt successfully and thus build adaptivecapacity. Three forms of learning are investigated: instrumental, communicative, and emancipatory. Theseforms of learning constitute the foundation for lasting changes of behaviors. Local food systems arecharacterized by close links and opportunities for face-to-face interactions between consumers andproducers of food, and are also institutions where farmers and customers can express and act upon theirethical values concerning food. However, local food systems are still a marginal phenomenon and cannotbe accessed by all consumers. Interviews were held with customers and farmers, and the interactionsbetween farmers and customers were observed at two farmers' markets in Sweden. Customers and farmerswere found to learn and adapt to each other due to the opportunities offered by the farmers' markets. Wefound that farmers and customers learned in the instrumental and communicative domains, but could notconfirm emancipatory learning. We concluded that the feedback between customers and farmers offers thepotential for learning, which in turn contributes to adaptive capacity. This can be a driving force for buildingresilience in the food system
关键词：adaptive capacity; learning; local food systems; farmers' markets; short food chains; social-;ecological resilience
