Food governance in Territorial Short Food Supply Chains: Different narratives and strategies from Colombia and Spain

Reina-Usuga, Liliana; Haro-Giménez, Tomás de; Parra-López, Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.02.005

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“…Table 3. Overview of the publications included in the literature review on the conceptualization and sustainability impact assessment of SFSCs (143).…”

Section: Theoretical Approach and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another new research direction has focused on the extension of participatory guarantee systems, usually studied in the realm of organic farming [141], to SFSCs and local food systems [112,142]. This orientation reaffirms the role of civil society in developing new forms of agrifood governance [143], a phenomenon first observed in CSA initiatives and equivalent systems. Lastly, some studies assess "mid-tier chains", which are developing at regional levels and involve more intermediaries, but whose actors collaborate, and assume or promise a combination of economic objectives as well as social and environmental values.…”

Section: Sfscs and Power Issuesmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Is Shortening the Answer? A Literature Review for a Research and Innovation Agenda

2020

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Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are increasingly garnering attention in food systems research, owing to their rising popularity among consumers, producers and policy-makers in the last few decades. Written with the aim to identify research gaps for the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, this literature review provides a state of play of the definition and characterisation of SFSCs, and of their sustainability. Drawing on hypotheses about SFSC sustainability elaborated in an expert network in France, this review summarises a wide range of papers from various disciplines in the SFSC literature, written in English or French, while specifically highlighting the empirical results derived from European projects. Though the literature tends to generally agree on the social benefits of SFSCs, their economic and environmental impacts typically elicit more heterogeneous outcomes, while their health/nutrition and governance dimensions remain under-explored. Based on this review, recommendations for a future research and innovation programme are outlined, addressing the contribution of SFSCs to agrifood system transition and resilience in the current context of the Covid-19 crisis and of the Green New Deal objectives.

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“…Table 3. Overview of the publications included in the literature review on the conceptualization and sustainability impact assessment of SFSCs (143).…”

Section: Theoretical Approach and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sfscs and Power Issuesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Is Shortening the Answer? A Literature Review for a Research and Innovation Agenda

2020

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“…Reina-Usuga et al argue that if agri-food governance mechanisms, such as the GI regulatory framework, are to successfully facilitate sustainability transitions, then "the empowerment of all stakeholders, from production to consumption, including the role of civil society organizations, public institutions and academia is essential" [64] (p. 238). Similarly, Torres-Salcido and Sanz-Cañada emphasize the importance of territorial governance in achieving sustainability transitions, as this is about the capacity to construct a public agenda, decentralized management and stakeholder autonomy, multi-level forms of coordination and, finally, forms of ecological and social management [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

Place-Based Pathways to Sustainability: Exploring Alignment between Geographical Indications and the Concept of Agroecology Territories in Wales

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Geographical Indications (GIs) are regarded as important endogenous rural development mechanisms by the European Union. GIs have proven successful for some producers in some regions, delivering higher added value and safeguarding a product’s identity and heritage through the notion of terroir. Within the context of a gradual “greening” of GIs, this paper opens up questions about what potential they might have for transitions to agroecology territories, which are spaces engaged in a transition process towards sustainable agri-food systems. Using the Food and Agricultural Organization’s 10 elements of agroecology as a lens, we discuss whether GIs can serve as levers in delivering sustainable agri-food transitions, drawing on the case of the devolved nation of Wales. We base our narrative on a content analysis of GI product specification documents and data from interviews with GI stakeholders. Our case study illustrates that the discourse within the regulatory framework of some Welsh GIs has shifted from one of technicality towards the integration of some agroecology elements in more recent GI product specifications. In this respect, we argue that there is evidence of a “first generation” and “second generation” assortment of GIs in Wales. However, any potential for levering an overall transition within this scheme towards an agroecology territory remains constrained by the piecemeal embedding of agroecology. The incorporation of agroecology is emerging primarily from the ground-up—driven by independent organizational and place-based collective action, but unaccompanied, as yet, by any parallel shift amongst supporting administrative and regulatory authorities. We also discuss the importance of reflexive governance if GIs are to be viable pathways for sustainability transitions. As such, the capacity for GIs to facilitate quality-led place-based food systems that enhance increasingly threatened environmental resources is contingent upon stakeholders adopting a territorial, reflexive governance approach.

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“…Specifically, the combination of a stronger urban-rural nexus, including urban personal connections and a local demand for higher quality coffee, enabled some smallholders to shorten the supply chain and access a relatively more profitable, informal, but limited direct market for processed coffee beans. However, the direct selling of the interviewed farmers was very informal and it was not part of some of the more structured territorial short food chains described for the region by Reina-Usuga et al [73]. Moreover, the added value in coffee supply chains is often linked to the export markets, but as Rueda and Lambin [54] described, the institutional support for improving coffee quality in the country is concentrated in other regions, where coffee has distinctive cup profiles.…”

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confidence: 95%

Options to Support Sustainable Trajectories in a Rural Landscape: Drivers, Rural Processes, and Local Perceptions in a Colombian Coffee-Growing Region

Valbuena¹,

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Gaitán‐Cremaschi

2021

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Trajectories of many rural landscapes in Latin America remain unsustainable. Options to support sustainable rural trajectories should be comprehensive and rooted in the interests of rural actors. We selected a municipality in a coffee-growing region in Colombia with an increasing urban–rural nexus to describe interactions between rural processes and their drivers while identifying and contextualising the perceptions of local actors on major constraints and opportunities for more inclusive and sustainable rural trajectories. We described these interactions by combining secondary data on main drivers, agricultural census data, and interviews with different local actors. Changes in population structure, volatility in coffee prices, in-/out-migration, deagrarianisation, and rurbanisation, among others, are reconfiguring the rural trajectories of the study area. Despite not being a major coffee region, farmers in the study area have developed different strategies, including intensification, diversification, replacement or abandonment of coffee production, and commercialisation. The perceptions of local actors and the multiplicity of agricultural households, food/land use systems, rural processes, and drivers described in this study suggest that more sustainable rural transitions need to be supported by inclusive, integrated, and transformative landscape planning approaches that align with local priorities. However, this transformation needs to be accompanied by changes at a systemic level that address the fundamental bottlenecks to real sustainability.

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Food governance in Territorial Short Food Supply Chains: Different narratives and strategies from Colombia and Spain

Cited by 29 publications

References 29 publications

Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Is Shortening the Answer? A Literature Review for a Research and Innovation Agenda

Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Is Shortening the Answer? A Literature Review for a Research and Innovation Agenda

Place-Based Pathways to Sustainability: Exploring Alignment between Geographical Indications and the Concept of Agroecology Territories in Wales

Options to Support Sustainable Trajectories in a Rural Landscape: Drivers, Rural Processes, and Local Perceptions in a Colombian Coffee-Growing Region

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