From “Food from Nowhere” to “Food from Here:” changing producer–consumer relations in Austria

Schermer, Markus

doi:10.1007/s10460-014-9529-z

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“…PGS represent a radical change from neoliberal food systems, which are described as "corporate" [38] or "financialized" [39], from the perspective of their modes of production, the resulting food systems, and the mechanisms used to ensure compliance with autonomously defined standards. PGS are consistent with the idea of re-localising and re-socialising the concept of the food system [40], as expressed by Schermer [41] via the notion of "food from somewhere". PGS establish trust in local food systems and refer to goals of autonomy and empowerment.…”

Section: The Important Implications Of the Politics Behind Organic Cesupporting

confidence: 79%

We Don’t Want to Be Officially Certified! Reasons and Implications of the Participatory Guarantee Systems

Padilla

Ganuza²

2018

Sustainability

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Official organic regulation in Europe is based on the third-party certification system to guarantee organic products. Many critics and dissatisfactions have motivated the emergence of other guarantee systems, based on an intense implication of producers and, in some cases, consumers and other local actors, involved in localised agri-food systems. They are called Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS), and are not recognised as valid guarantee systems by the official organic regulation. In the present paper, we analyse the main differences between the PGS and the third party certification system, deepening on their differentiated social and political implications. We conclude that the procedures behind PGS generate numerous positive impacts in the territories related to local producers (and consumers) empowerment and localised agri-food systems drive, while their implications make them not considered as a substitute to third party certification system, unless certain conditions of social consolidated groups and agroecological and food sovereignty perspective of food system take place.

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Section: The Important Implications Of the Politics Behind Organic Cesupporting

confidence: 79%

We Don’t Want to Be Officially Certified! Reasons and Implications of the Participatory Guarantee Systems

Padilla

Ganuza²

2018

Sustainability

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“…Regionalization suggests traceability as it provides an air of knowledge about production methods. For example, one major Austrian discounter offers for its organic line not only a differentiation into "regions of origin" but complete traceability on the internet via the bar code and even CO 2 footprint calculations on the packaging (Schermer, 2015).…”

Section: History and Strategies Used To Increase Local Food Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local food: benefits and failings due to modern agriculture

Coelho

Coelho²,

Egerer

2018

Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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This paper aims to examine the issue raised by the consumption of locally produced food in all its various aspects, and in particular, addresses how this practice contributes to local and global sustainability. It analyzes the different definitions of local food, the strategies used, the implications of the distance traveled in the transportation of food to the consumer's table -food miles, the relationships between local food consumption and sustainability, farming practices that reduce carbon emissions, contribution of urban agriculture to local food, local trading of food produced by rural farmers, as well as a number of relationships between the consumption of local food and human nutrition and health, local food protection and the ability to support local food production for humanitarian actions in disaster situations. The promotion of "local food" is a complex problem covering environmental issues, the economy and health.Transportation is not the only factor that determines how efficient it is to consume local food. Often, the technologies used for agricultural production are those most responsible for the degree of sustainability in the production and supply of food to the population. Local production does not always mean lower emissions of greenhouse gases. In general, the consumption of local foods, produced in ways adapted to the local environment using technologies with an ecological basis, is something beneficial and salutary for the environment, economy and society in general.

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“…In Austria, for example, the first producer-consumer cooperative, BERSTA, was founded in 1980. Consumers and producers collectively organized the sale in Vienna of produce (initially mainly potatoes) grown in disadvantaged regions of Austria [21]. This "grass-roots" initiative developed into a small wholesale company that continues to collaborate (though not exclusively) with small-scale farmers from disadvantaged regions [33].…”

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Farmer Cooperation as a Means for Creating Local Food Systems—Potentials and Challenges

Lutz¹,

Smetschka²,

Grima³

2017

Sustainability

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Facing the continuous loss of family-run farms across Europe, farmers are seeking new pathways to sustainability. One such pathway is involvement in local food supply systems. Often, this requires new forms of cooperation among farmers and with consumers. Little is known, however, about how this cooperation works in practice and how it might be better fostered. This paper aims to illustrate various forms of cooperation in relation to small-scale farming and the establishment of local food supply. It sheds light on challenges farmers are facing and on the potential measures they can adopt to tackle these challenges. By means of an Austrian case study, researchers applied a participatory method (Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation) and conducted workshops with farmers. Research shows that local production, processing and distribution infrastructure becomes more affordable when farmers collaborate with each other and with consumers and institutions. Furthermore, sharing and collectively developing know-how helps to optimise local farming and food supply systems. However, farmers often lack the knowledge and time to establish new collaborations and to re-organise labour, logistics and communication processes. They would benefit from the availability of cooperative schemes that help facilitate such processes and innovations.

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From “Food from Nowhere” to “Food from Here:” changing producer–consumer relations in Austria

Cited by 77 publications

References 16 publications

We Don’t Want to Be Officially Certified! Reasons and Implications of the Participatory Guarantee Systems

We Don’t Want to Be Officially Certified! Reasons and Implications of the Participatory Guarantee Systems

Local food: benefits and failings due to modern agriculture

Farmer Cooperation as a Means for Creating Local Food Systems—Potentials and Challenges

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