Collaborative Concession in Food Movement Networks: The Uneven Relations of Resource Mobilization

Sbicca, Joshua; Luxton, India; Hale, James; Roeser, Kassandra K

doi:10.3390/su11102881

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“…Moving beyond studies that show the richness and diversity of such initiatives at the local level [1,2], we highlight that AFOs hold heterogeneous and complementary conceptualizations of sustainability. Moreover, network analysis confirms previous findings [21,22]. AFOs tend to be disconnected from one another.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Conversely, supporters of strong sustainability believe that a change in model to reduce our consumption of resources and maintain a viable ecosystem for several generations is necessary [18][19][20]. So far, only a handful of studies have analyzed a broad range of AFOs to understand whether they work together and what characterizes their shared political projects [21,22]. Accordingly, we ask which conceptualization(s) of sustainability AFOs propose and to what extent these conceptualizations are shared across a broad range of AFOs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Yet, few studies seek to analyze a broad range of food organizations to gain an overview of their overall transformative potential. Only a few scholars have sought to analyze a broad range of AFOs and applied network perspectives to examine how food organizations interact [21,22]. Moving from studies focusing on specific types of food organizations (e.g., solidarity purchase groups and participatory supermarkets) to research on the field of food organizations allows gaining insights into their shared goals and actions.…”

Section: Alternative Food Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Multiple Understandings of Sustainability among Alternative Food Organizations in Geneva

González

Lorenzini

2021

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Alternative Food Organizations (AFOs) seek to establish more sustainable practices in the food system. However, they might hold different conceptualizations of sustainability. Hence, we miss an overview of AFOs’ conceptualizations of sustainability that allows grasping their overall transformative potential. In this paper, we analyze a broad range of AFOs active in food production, distribution, and consumers’ advocacy to examine to what extent they share a common understanding of sustainability. Our empirical analyses focus on the Swiss canton of Geneva, we build on organizational survey data and detailed coding of the discourses published on their websites. We find that the environmental dimension of sustainability is more prominent and that weak and strong conceptualizations of sustainability are equally present in AFOs’ discourses. However, important differences appear between food producers and distributors. The former have a multidimensional and strong conceptualization of sustainability, while the latter focus on fewer dimensions and a weak conceptualization. In spite of these differences, AFOs interact within a small but heterogeneous network.

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Section: Alternative Food Organizationsmentioning

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Multiple Understandings of Sustainability among Alternative Food Organizations in Geneva

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2021

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“…With similarities in the form of established social networks and organizational methods, different schemes employ different ways of enhancing the producer-consumer relationships. Research has pointed out that the direct food supply schemes are confronted with several challenges including but not limited to money, land and labor that are seriously contested within food movements [20,25,26]. Since multiple actors are involved in different stages of food supply from production to consumption [2,20,21], one key challenge in localizing food systems today is to bring together various actors and encourage collaborative action.…”

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Enhancing Food Security by Institutionalizing Collaborative Food Alliances in Urban Areas

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Narrowing the food supply-demand gaps between urban and rural areas within a regional space has today become a serious challenge due to the growing urban population. Resultantly, urban markets are increasingly being dominated by industrial food chains, despite their negative socio-environmental impacts. To address this issue, this paper discusses the need and significance of ‘Collaborative Food Alliances’ (CFAs), which promote the direct supply of food products from rural farmers to urban residents through improved producer–consumer relationships. Based on the literature survey, this study underlines that the current CFAs are confronted with several challenges including the small scale of functioning and limited financing. While the current research on CFAs is focused on theoretical place-based studies, this paper argues that institutionalization of CFAs at a large scale is highly important for enhancing food security in urban areas. It mainly deliberates on two key aspects: (a) The process of institutionalizing CFAs and (b) A feasible financing mechanism to support CFAs. This paper emphasizes that urban local governments have a central role to play in institutionalizing CFAs, either as a lead agency or as a facilitator. It concludes with specific suggestions on three key determinants of multi-stakeholder engagement, financial constraints and policy coordination at a regional level.

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“…While social network analyses are generally conducted on a quantitative basis, Luxton and Sbicca (2020) call for studies combining a quantitative and qualitative social network analysis, providing insights into both the 'structure' and the 'story' of networks The current study builds upon this methodological approach, as illustrated in figure 4.2. Following Sbicca, Hale, and Roeser (2019), stage 2 aims to map the 'structure' of the network and gives a static understanding of the urban food governance network. Stages 1 and 3 serve to explore the 'story' and provide a more dynamic understanding of the network.…”

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The elusiveness of inclusiveness : A practice-based perspective on health and sustainability in urban food practices

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Effective urban food governance requires multiple pathways of transition to a healthy and sustainable food system. (this thesis) 2.Promoting sustainable food consumption practices requires a theory of power. (this thesis) 3.A theoretical lens follows from a hypothesis. 4.The practical experience gained during a PhD conducted at a University of Applied Sciences adds significant value to the PhD trajectory. 5.Working from home fulltime hampers successful PhD writing.'I made it through another day' (Sia, 2021). This has been the soundtrack of the second half of my PhD, written during years with extensive periods of lockdown that were not easy. It has been quite the ride, and I have a lot of people to thank for making it to the finish line. Thanks to my dear promotors, Peter and Sigrid. I could not have dreamed of a better supervisory team! When I started my PhD, I was quite insecure about my capacities. I really appreciated your encouragements to express my voice more clearly and trust myself and my ideas. Peter, you've been in it with me since my MSc thesis back in 2015. You were always a rock, grounding me along the way. Sigrid, it's been such a pleasure working with you! Your endless energy is very inspiring and I very much appreciate the mentor role you have taken up in coaching me, introducing me to many new people and projects, and now also to a great postdoc position where I'm very happy to continue our collaboration.My lovely, lovely Almere people! I could absolutely not have done this without you. Claudia, Koen, Jan-Eelco, thank you for all the fun we had when we still had an office! Such good times in Lancaster, Torino, and at our very own Almere conference. Koen, thanks for the many chats in particular through Teams over the past two years -it's really helped me cope with everything. Jan-Eelco, special thanks for getting me outside of my house during lockdown for our walks -I hope we will continue this in the future! Claudia, the choice for you as my paranymph was very easy to make: such an honour to watch you develop from my intern to the social practice theorist you know are! Thanks for being my paranymph and friend  My other Almere colleagues from team TPO -Dinand, Harrison, Nicolette, Brigitta, Henk, Pat, thank you for sharing the office with me and bringing joy (and plants, Brigitta!) to my office life. And of course a big thank you to all of you at Aeres University of Applied Sciences Almere for allowing me to do my PhD among you. Thanks also to Flevo Campus and Gemeente Almere for supporting the PhD project. Thanks to all my wonderful ENP colleagues -too many to name here. Since I started as a junior researcher in 2016, I have always felt very much at home and accepted in the group. Although the last two years of lockdown after lockdown have meant limited encounters, I have very fond memories of our bustling hallway where the doors were always open. Your collegiality is much appreciated! Alita, Frank, Jillian, Moises, Nila, Pamela, Robin and Sayel , thanks for our amazing China trip! I particularl...

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Collaborative Concession in Food Movement Networks: The Uneven Relations of Resource Mobilization

Cited by 17 publications

References 53 publications

Multiple Understandings of Sustainability among Alternative Food Organizations in Geneva

Multiple Understandings of Sustainability among Alternative Food Organizations in Geneva

Enhancing Food Security by Institutionalizing Collaborative Food Alliances in Urban Areas

The elusiveness of inclusiveness : A practice-based perspective on health and sustainability in urban food practices

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