A case study of local food and its routes to market in the UK

Jones, Peter; Comfort, Daphne; Hillier, David

doi:10.1108/00070700410529582

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“…Marketing via short chains offers small producers, farmers, and artisanal processors, the opportunity to better using owned inputs as well as increasing the quota of the value added they capture. Furthermore, in doing so they trade in a better market position, as they avoid the bottleneck represented by larger retailers, and get higher prices thanks to the higher willingness to pay (WTP) of the final consumers for goods channeled by short chains [15,34].…”

Section: Supply Chains For Local Products: the Case Of Short Chainsmentioning

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Foods and Places: Comparing Different Supply Chains

Carbone¹

2018

Agriculture

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This paper explores the relationships between food and places and how these affect the organization and functioning of different supply chains. The theme is increasingly relevant due to demand trends and new production patterns, including globalization, that deeply affect the (re)localization of production. This is a conceptual paper extensively relying on previous studies done by the author and on evidence and concepts discussed in the literature; it does not present new in-depth case studies or any other original evidences. First, the different ways of conceptualizing and thinking the linkages between food and production places are discussed. Then, three chains that seek at delivering products for which the place of origin is important are compared: (i) short chains, where producers integrate the whole process in order to access the final consumer; (ii) geographical indications, where producers gather under a common name in order to build their reputation in connection with the place of production; (iii) retailers specialized in high quality foods, where advantages of large retailers are combined with the strong identity of products. The objective is to contribute understanding differences in the coordination modes and in the kind of governance at stake in each chain and to compare their strengths and drawbacks in terms of capacity to assure place-related quality and of delivering reliable information to consumers. Attention is also given to the role of farmers within the different chains, as these are usually strongly rooted in the place of origin but the weakest knots in the chain in terms of bargaining power. Vertical and horizontal coordination, together with collective actions, are essential for an effective alignment of the production process that can enhance quality and create/distribute value. The discussion also assesses difficulties and drawbacks related to sharing decisions and to managing common resources.

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Section: Supply Chains For Local Products: the Case Of Short Chainsmentioning

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Foods and Places: Comparing Different Supply Chains

Carbone¹

2018

Agriculture

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“…The growth of home delivery by these same retailers has been predicated on further market domination by saving these same consumers the need to travel while offering them the same range and price of foods (Boyer, et al, 2003;Hackney, et al, 2006). Despite this, many small independent shops remain, often in the poorer areas of cities (Guy, et al, 2004), while there has been an increase in the popularity of farmers' markets and specialist shops related to high quality, often high price 'local food' (Jones, et al, 2004;Guthrie, et al, 2006). These shops trade on the basis of niche -providing what the supermarkets cannot, or will not.…”

Section: Food Choice and Its Implications For Retail Locationmentioning

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“…In addressing this situation there has been an increasing trend, in Europe and America, to question how access to fresh and healthy food can be brought into land use planning decisions (Food Commission and Sustain, n.d.;Morgan, 2009;Morgan and Sonnino, 2010). This has included efforts to shorten or remove the food chain, through the provision of more allotment gardens and support for more farmers' markets, for example (Jones, et al, 2004;Duffy, et al, 2005;Perez-Vazquez, A, et al, 2006;Donald, et al, 2010;Marsden, 2010;Murtagh, 2010), and by encouraging new forms of community supported urban agriculture that offer renewed connections between producers and consumers (Viljoen, 2005;Ravenscroft and Taylor, 2009). …”

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What’s local? Access to fresh food for older people

Madgwick

Ravenscroft

2011

Local Economy

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This paper seeks to engage with two key debates: how we understand 'local' with respect to the ways in which people move around local economies to buy food; and what this tells us about food planning and policies to reduce the length of the food supply chain. Using a focus group of older people in Brighton & Hove, England, the paper suggests that the social experience of food shopping is informed by individual's cultural capital, allied to the ways in which they travel around the city. In contrast, food planning is dominated by imperatives to localise the points of both production and sale, apparently with scant regard for the rather different connections between production and sale made by the shoppers themselves. The paper concludes that, for the older people in the study at least, 'local' is little more than a spatial referent along a continuum of shopping experiences. For 'local food' to gain purchase, therefore, it must be integrated into the continuum in such a way that it adds to, rather than substitutes for, existing food choices.

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“…Consumers purchase food at 'alternative food purchasing venues' (cf. Milestad, Bartel-Kratochvil, Leitner, & Axmann, 2010) such as farmers' markets, box schemes, community supported agriculture initiatives, community gardens and short food supply chains (Ilbery & Maye, 2005;Jones, Comfort, & Hillier, 2004;King, 2008;Marsden, Banks, & Bristow, 2000;Milestad et al, 2010;Sage, 2003). Often, such venues do not only offer sustainable food but also activities for education, training, and community building (Jarosz, 2000;King, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%