Introduction: Frugality and Food in Contemporary and Historical Perspective

Burridge, Joseph

doi:10.1080/07409710.2012.652004

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“…The connection of frugality to prosperity and material welfare is explicitly made in the works of Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall and Max Weber, who advocated that private frugality as a virtuous way of accumulating capital by saving would increase national wealth and offset wastefulness (Burridge, 2012;Jain and Bhaduri, 2021;Onsongo and Knorringa, 2020). Similar connotations can be found in neo-Confucianism, in which frugality -in combination with hard work -is seen as a way to accumulate resources that would benefit the prosperity of one's family (Onsongo and Knorringa, 2020).…”

Section: Understandings Of Frugal and Frugalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Capturing frugal innovation: introduction to the Handbook on Frugal Innovation

Leliveld,

Bhaduri,

Knorringa

et al. 2023

Handbook on Frugal Innovation

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Capturing frugal innovation: introduction to the Handbook on Frugal Innovation

Leliveld,

Bhaduri,

Knorringa

et al. 2023

Handbook on Frugal Innovation

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“…For our research, we return to the original idea of frugality that has been explored in a variety of disciplines like philosophy, religion, psychology, and economics (Lastovicka et al, 1999). In this literature, frugality refers to a restraint and virtue, or to virtuous ways to accumulate capital through saving and avoiding wastefulness (Burridge, 2012). Such a frugality lens emphasises prudent use of scarce resources to achieve practical ends, selecting low-cost and good-enough solutions to overcome local constraints, making best bets when information is scarce, transmitting repair and improvisational skills to prolong the use of resources, and avoiding waste or the use of nonessential items (Devi and Kumar, 2018).…”

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Connecting the Concepts of Frugality and Inclusion to Appraise Business Practices in Systems of Food Provisioning: A Kenyan Case Study

Vellema

Schouten

Knorringa

2023

J Agric Environ Ethics

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Small and medium size business enterprises (SMEs) are the linchpin in systems of food provisioning in sub-Saharan Africa. These businesses occupy the middle of the agri-food chain and face a food security conundrum: they must ensure that smallholder producers of limited means can operate under fair terms while low-income consumers are supplied with affordable and nutritious food. This task becomes even more challenging when resources are scarce. This paper explores how resource-constrained SMEs arrange the terms on which both farmers and consumers are included in agri-food chains. To this end, it combines the concept of inclusion with that of frugality. We use the case of a Kenyan SME to demonstrate how a focus on frugality can advance our understanding of how business practices create thriving business relationships with smallholders while simultaneously ensuring access to affordable food for consumers. We additionally identify what conditions for inclusion emerge from this type of dynamic business practices. Our perspective departs from assessing induced organisational interventions, such as contract farming or cooperatives, which deliberately shorten the agri-food chain, thereby overlooking the skilful practices being employed by business actors in the middle of the chain.

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“…Poverty is dynamic; people move in and out of low income, often quite quickly. In Europe, the term 'the new poor' refers to people who previously enjoyed a relatively high income but have been affected by economic crisis and austerity and are now struggling financially (Burridge 2012;Queiroz 2013;Serrano 2013;Dagdeviren et al 2017). There tends to be a lag between income falling and the experience of material deprivation, and, vice versa, a rise in income does not immediately translate into a better standard of living (Saunders 2013).…”

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“…Those who have been on low income for a long time have migrated within or between countries. The second three cases previously enjoyed a middle-class standard of living but, as a result of the economic crisis and austerity, or family breakdown, are struggling to maintain the lifestyle they are accustomed to (Burridge 2012;Queiroz 2013;Dagdeviren et al 2017). In this analysis we examine the extent to which low income constrains both parents' and children's participation in social activities, especially in relation to food, and how they feel about and manage their lives in these circumstances.…”

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Families and Food in Hard Times

O’Connell¹,

Brannen²

2021

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Se podes olhar, vê. Se podes ver, repara. [If you can see, look. If you can look, observe.] Livro dos Conselhos vii Contents List of figures ix List of tables xi Acknowledgements xiii 8.2 A fair trade banana (Source: 'Phoebe'). 8.3 Refrigerator contents (Source: Sónia Cardoso). 8.4 Lunch of fish fingers and smoked salmon salad (Source: 'Ana'). 8.5 Fried shrimps in the pan (Source: 'Ana'). 8.6 Hamburgers, chips and Coca-Cola (the last given by a friend) (Source: 'Ana'). 9.1 Saturday breakfast (a) and lunch (b) ('chicken with boiled potatoes, green peas and everything else') at Dalila's grandmother's home (Source: 'Dalila'). 9.2 Frozen meat from 'dumpster diving', given by former lodger to Grethe's family (Source: Silje Skuland). 9.3 Saturday lunch for the whole family (Source: 'Tomas'). 10.1 School lunch in Portugal (Source: 'Mariana'). 10.2 Sandwich school lunch in Norway (Source: 'Kombo'). 10.3 Lunch in the school canteen (Source: 'Aleixo'). 10.4 Nan's roast (Source: 'Maddy'). 10.5 Curry (a) with potatoes and carrots served with sour porridge (b) at home (Source: 'Panya'). xi List of tables 5.3 Menus for Lala and her son Goncalo. 5.4 Menus for Faduma and her daughter Sadia. 6.1 Employment by family type. 6.2 Menus for Sally and her son Owen. 6.3 Menus for Sonia and her daughter Bianca. 6.4 Menus for Marit and her three children. 7.1 Menus for Morowa and her sons, Emmanuel and Gideon. 7.2 Menus for Nuria and her son Tola. 7.3 Menus for Aamina and her son Jamal. 8.1 Avoidance of social activities involving food, because of a lack of resources: numbers of parents reporting this by country sample. 8.2 Number of children reporting eating out or buying food, by type of area and country sample. 9.1 Formal and informal support used by families: qualitative study. 10.1 Free and subsidised school meals in the UK and Portugal. xiii AcknowledgementsFirst and foremost, we wish to thank the families who participated in the study. We would also like to thank and acknowledge the co-researchers with whom we carried out the research on which the book is based. The team included: in the UK,

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Introduction: Frugality and Food in Contemporary and Historical Perspective

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Capturing frugal innovation: introduction to the Handbook on Frugal Innovation

Capturing frugal innovation: introduction to the Handbook on Frugal Innovation

Connecting the Concepts of Frugality and Inclusion to Appraise Business Practices in Systems of Food Provisioning: A Kenyan Case Study

Families and Food in Hard Times

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